Escalating Threats to Midterm Elections, Bannon Says Trump Will ‘Have ICE Surround the Polls’ | Common Dreams
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"This is a red alert moment," said Sen. Ed Markey. "We have to start working to protect polling places from Trump's paramilitary ICE goons before it's too late."
    • baller_w@lemmy.zip
      24·
      3 months ago

      Right. Show up and do the needful.

      I’ve seen armed “guards” and my polling station before and it’s unsettling to say the least.

      Say no words. Just vote.

  • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    40·
    3 months ago

    I know that the Black Panthers have a history of protecting polls while armed, but perhaps it’s time we allow people of all colors to be armed and protecting the polls.

    There’s a lot more of us than there are of ICE.

    • lectricleopard@lemmy.world
      14·
      3 months ago

      Someone pointed out in another thread that schools and govt buildings where polling stations are already dont permit guns. But if ther are 50 of us there, the 10 of them they can muster will run like the cowards they are.

      • atlasquill892@lemmy.world
        7·
        3 months ago

        That’s the issue with the government’s monopoly on violence here. It’s okay if they bring their guns to terrorize people, but it’s not okay for ordinary people to protect others.

  • BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz
    28·
    3 months ago

    Trump wants ICE to THREATEN NON REPUBLICAN VOTERS WITH GUNS? Wow! They probably need a LOT of Funding for That! Let’s give it to Them!

    -Democrats Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries!

    • zbyte64
      1·
      3 months ago

      “Be sure to give them body cams so the destruction of the constitution will be well documented” - feckless Dems

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    3 months ago

    Simple.

    Everyone shows up to the polls heavily armed and stays until everyone has voted.

    Actually, not even everyone has to be armed. Just enough to form a group. Do not try this on your own. Totally safe if you’re in a group that’s packing though. They’re cowards. They’re only going to mess with people who can’t defend themselves.

    • m0nt@piefed.socialEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      Truly the most accurate comparison to ICE on paper. Schutzstaffel (SS) is the one everyone knows about and for practical reasons in the public eye, it’s a good analogy, but it’d be beneficial for people be aware of Sturmabteilung (SA), because the SS were far worse following the Nazi party’s truly solidifying grip on power. History really does rhyme.

      • Akasazh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        Also the SA where mostly thugs, like ICE. Only thing Hitler did far better was to praise them and stand behind them. Bovino was basically sacrificed without any honor (nor was he deserving), but Hitler made national monuments to the goons who died and memorialized them in song.

        Until the night of the long knives, ofc, then he quite literally stabbed them in the back.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    17·
    3 months ago

    I’m calling it: they’re going to have Palantir set them up with a database of likely Democrat voters paired with facial recognition and detain everyone who is a positive match on their way to the polls until the polling station closes.

    And then they’ll have the mail-in votes thrown out.

    • bearboiblake [he/him]@pawb.socialEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I doubt facial recognition technology works well enough for that to be feasible, I think facial recognition technology using just cameras, esp. without high quality photos, is a bit like the polygraph/lie detector, it can give you some bullshit grounds to subject people to additional scrutiny basically on a whim, but has little practical application

  • klay1@lemmy.world
    15·
    3 months ago

    When Hitler was choosing his cabinet, he made Göhring Minister of the interior, which was head of the police. Then they put their SS inside of the Reichstag, when they cast the vote if Hitler should have absolute power (for a limited time, to solve a fake issue). The police, now under Göhring, didn’t stop them. The SS stood everywhere, shouting Nazi paroles and threatening the Reichstag-members to apply violence if the vote does not come out their way. Back then in the Reichstag, voting wasn’t anonymous. The deed was done. Some brave leftists still openly said they cannot vote yes, many were later captured and killed. Hitler obviously just cancelled the limited time part and kept the absolute power.

    Many Germans later regretted, not having fought more, when they saw it all coming.

    Guys, everything was alarming so far. Announcing to have ICE at the polls is even more alarming. You cannot have the Shitler get that far, where it is too late. You must act now!

    Good luck over there, regards from Germany.

  • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    There are far more polling locations than ice agents. Even if they selectively pick the purple ones and deploy every agent they’re unlikely to end up with more than a couple agents at each.

    I guess that also means those agents either don’t get to vote or have to do early voting.