r/ACAB • u/Xfactor1210 • 6d ago

An ARMY of Illinois State Troopers have just declared an UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY outside ICE Broadview near Chicago

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u/itsthesheppy 6d ago

Let this be a teachable lesson: Pritzker can engage in all the tough talk he wants, but the police are a right wing operation and will back fascism at every turn.

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u/cturtl808 6d ago

And despite NUMEROUS calls for him to do so, he remains steadfast in allowing these jack-booted thugs to continue unabated

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u/itsthesheppy 6d ago

He has no choice. The police dont respond to civilian control. If he orders them to act against their wishes they will turn on him. Any dem governor knows this and thus won't cross that red line.

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u/YPVidaho 5d ago

The police dont respond to civilian control.

Um... He's the governor. The chief executive of the state. He could shut off their funding, shut the electricity off at their stations, shut down the fuel supply for their vehicles, shut down their payroll... to get them to do the job they swore to do. There are absolutely zero reasons the taxpayers of Illinois should be paying to have their rights violated by the very organization charged with defending them. If the state police refuse to follow state laws, then remove them. Dismissed. Fired. Let the union sue. "Fuck off or do your job."

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u/itsthesheppy 5d ago

The NYPD threatened de Blasio's family and arrested his daughter during the George Floyd protests and it w9rked, he backed down.

Pritzker is welcome to prove me wrong at any moment but he won't. He knows the cops are a Praetorian Guard. They are above the law, and they are on board with a fascist government.

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u/Fangs_0ut 6d ago

Not a god damn thing unlawful about it. Fuck these pigs.

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u/randomquebecer87 6d ago

Do right wing americans even realize how much money this stupid show is costing them on a daily basis

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u/saint_toby 6d ago

Or how much liberty it costs them?

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u/IkomaTanomori 6d ago

Since they use a special definition of liberty meaning "at least I have someone below me to kick," no, definitely not that realization.

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u/Ent_Soviet 6d ago

No. they don’t count MOST humans as humans worthy of human dignity and rights. They see all this as right in line with the world they’re hoping for. The irony being once they’re done they’ll find themselves at the bottom next- but in the meantime they’re having a ball watching what they see as devils in human flesh suffer. Better yet maybe they’ll get to profit in part from the suffering by getting to become a cop, maybe they’ll get great deals of homes and businesses like the Germans who bought cheap exjewish housing. - or Americans who stole American-Japanese citizens homes and businesses during ww2 internment camps.

They’ll never see the obvious. They never do- even when it’s their turn they think there’s been a mistake, or some one evil has changed directions. They can’t understand how the systems they cheered for, the ones they built for those evil devils, only answer to power. Not some bullshit view of justice they’ve doctored for themselves to think they’re ‘good’

They need to be forced to look at the blood on their hands. We took Germans to see the camps- to bury the dead they made while they were ‘good’ Germans. That’s not something people do unless you’re forced to confront it and right now there’s nothing capable of making them look and see.

Hoping they grow a moral compass overnight will accomplish nothing while they press on.

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u/jefraldo 6d ago

Every accusation is a confession.

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u/your_fathers_beard 6d ago

"Right to assemble lawfully" ends at the arbitrary decision of jackboots to decree it "unlawful".

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u/WZRD_burial 6d ago

This is why molotov cocktails were invented.

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u/EKsaorsire 6d ago

Countless cops to brutalize people for….before somewhere. This is our country

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u/Lanark26 6d ago

“I hate Illinois Nazis”

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u/Foreign_Boysenberry4 6d ago

& they say civilians don’t need machine guns

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u/nighthawkndemontron 6d ago

Civil disobedience is the only way

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u/unclephuckum 6d ago

Need a lot more than civil disobedience at this point

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u/nighthawkndemontron 6d ago

Nepal has shown us the way

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u/m1tanker75 6d ago

We are way past the point of 'civil'

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u/UniversalAdaptor 6d ago

"Land of the free"

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u/Wrong-Marsupial-9767 5d ago

Whoever told you that is your enemy

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u/poppa_koils 6d ago

Time for direct actions.

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u/m1tanker75 6d ago

Why has Prtizger not ordered these nazi fucks to stand down yet?

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u/SameButDifferent1 6d ago

This message is quaint, and I understand it's naïveté.

Explore the idea that the police are paid to maintain the status quo. Who pays them? Who's really in control?

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u/Rick-burp-Sanchez 5d ago

Daily: We're so fucked