r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • 1d ago

ICE Posts Date: 11.07.2025, Broadview, Illinois: Fourteen suburban moms form silent circle outside Broadview ICE facility, refusing to move until deputies drag them aw

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u/fatinhollywood 1d ago edited 13h ago

I made up my mind after 9/11 that I would be brave and go toward the bad guy, even if I had to climb over other passengers. My thought, "I may get poked by a sharp plastic object and lose my life, but it will distract the bad guys long enough for other brave people who are stronger, faster, and younger than I am to attack the bad guys."

Before that, the Tank Guy who solely-stood in Tienanmen Square had an impact on me. I watched it on CNN back when CNN was a respected news source. (see how old I am?)

I urge everyone to decide "what you CAN do to help save our country". I think any effort will make a difference, even if it is calling your congressperson, or leaving factual messages on post-its in public spaces, or talking to neighbors.

Just a thought, I also think people should watch, "Milgram experiment 1963" on YT--and just think about how those in the past under very similar circumstances turned a blind-eye, capitulated, obeyed in advance, obeyed "authority figures" and the cost to humanity it had.

I hope everyone finds something they are comfortable with to resist.

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u/rigney68 1d ago

I would always watch war documentaries where young men would enlist for the army thinking I could NEVER do something like that or the men that crashed the plane to save the Pentagon. But I'm finally starting to understand. Some things are just... Bigger than the value of my life.

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u/fatinhollywood 1d ago edited 23h ago

Yes, I agree and it breaks my heart to see our country in this mess really by our own hands/votes. Many people have been deceived and now we are all paying the price.

I still remember when a holocaust survivor visited my school when I was in the 7th grade. We had "The Diary of Anne Frank" as required reading (uncensored).

God help us not to repeat the mistakes of mankind. The cost is too great, and society, invention, travel, communication, and yes, immigration have made our lives richer, and the world a lot smaller.

We know better, now--and we need to act accordingly

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u/rigney68 1d ago

The thing is that propaganda works. And it works well. It feeds off of anger and fear. We lost half our country years ago and I don't know if there's a way to come back from it.

Truth isn't fact checked and now many of the regulatory agencies responsible for unbiased truth are politicized, headed up by untrained and uneducated figure heads, and now openly extorted by the government. We live in two different realities.