I live in an area where people ask you where you’re from and if you actually live in the neighborhood. They may assume you don’t speak English, like they have with my wife.
ICE has already gone through the town nextdoor, and I’m waiting for our turn. I’m light-skinned, but my wife and kids are dark with Mayan features. I fear that all anyone has to do to terrorize my family is call a hotline. We have all our citizenship documentation, but that doesn’t matter anymore.
I keep waiting for the day when I’m going to have to defend my family, but I might not even be around when things take place. What if they come take my wife while she’s at work? What if she goes shopping and never comes back?
I have nothing without my family. I have nothing.
If you don’t already own a firearm, I strongly suggest now is the time to obtain one (rifle, shotgun, or a nice full-size pistol with a brace) for your family’s safety. I would also suggest getting pepperspray, a taser, or a small-caliber handgun (.380 would be good) for your wife.
I understand the feelings that lead to giving this advice, but this will not end well for anyone. There are better options, especially if children are involved.
like?
Not starting a firefight with a bunch of trigger happy fascist with the firepower of a small country who would like nothing more than an excuse to shoot some foreigners, with your kids in the building? I understand the sentiment, but this is not an 80’s action flick and the average American is not Arnold Schwarzenegger.
wait wait, this funny for so many reasons, but why would you comply with your oppressors?
Isn’t this exactly what they want, and you are willing to give it to them completely willingly‽
I get you just admitted you don’t know your historical antifascist liberating acts, but capitulating isn’t one of them.
I think you’re underestimating the importance of the clause that their kids are in the building. It’s a very different thing to throw a brick at the cops when you’re alone and when you’ve got small children. The government doesn’t give a fuck about keeping kids out of it, meaning parents have to.
I am extremely aware how the US coerces families. I am asking if it’s worth complying with the succeeding genocides?
It’s worth it for those of us without children to make the hard decisions and let the people with them concentrate on protecting them.
After all, making sure kids survive, thrive, and learn your culture is how you deal with the aftermath of a genocide.
You can protect children all the while destroying fascism.
The problem is that 60% of the 🇺🇲population want their flavor of fascism. Democrats want it through Zionism. GOP’s version is playing out in real time.
What 🇺🇲 culture is there to protect after all the indigenous genocides have been already committed? How are you ensuring children thrive in GOP’s vision of reenslavement, pollution, climate destruction, and book burnings you haven’t protected?
I fail to see a future children are protected that the 🇺🇲 fascists haven’t secured. Unless you have brighter ideas than compliance.
I was talking about this specific situation, actually. The one this post is about? I personally wouldn’t get my kids involved with a shootout with the US government, but you do you. Glad you were able to deduce my entire stance and general knowledgeability regarding antifascism based on that, though. Pretty cool.
OP already said they’ll protest and donate, if I read the sardonism correctly.
Anyways, hope your demolition of deathcamps goes better than 22 more years.
Frankly I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make anymore. I never said a single thing about protesting. You’re the one who decided that me saying “pulling a gun on armed thugs is probably not a good idea” means I support full submission to fascism. You just keep putting words in my mouth and providing links to things that are tangentially relevant to what you’re saying, and honestly it’s gotten old. You can believe you bested whatever strawman you’re projecting onto me if it makes you happy, but I’m not interested in continuing this conversation.
I think that’s the raw issue: you haven’t provided a proper solution for OP to protect his family.
We already agreed a frontal confrontation is probably not the best strategy. But I fail to see any other strategies that won’t result in the family still getting abducted, raped, and deathcamped, that history has already proven.
We have a reliable handgun and some other weapons in the house. We could use some good OC spray, though, like the kind that shoots 3-10 ft. I hope I can buy those as a civilian. I might still have a spare handcuff key, too. Gotta check my military gear.
POM is a solid brand of OC, since it sprays in a concentrated stream instead of a mist/spray (the mist requires a bit less aim, but it doesn’t work in the wind, and can often blow back into your own face, or be inhaled if used inside a room in a house). Their big cans are restricted in a handful of states, but the smaller pocket models are 50 state legal.
Good luck.