Comment by direwolf20

Comment by direwolf20 4 days ago

14 replies

Which law makes it illegal to track ICE? If there isn't a law against it, but you think the government should arrest people for it anyway, then you don't support rule of law.

VBprogrammer 4 days ago

The obvious retort is "obstruction". Of course it doesn't hold up to scrutiny because courts have consistently held that obstruction has to be a physical act. Simply being nearby, filming or calling them names doesn't count.

  • mothballed 4 days ago

    Is kicking out tail lights and spitting at agents obstruction?[] Because he definitely appears to have done that about a week before his death. Though that doesn't merit death.

    [] https://youtu.be/p2TRbFmutrw?t=1023

    • defrost 4 days ago

      I scrolled back a little.

      There are a number of local citizens upset at two out of state vehicles blocking off a road while (?) executing warrentless invasions of homes in the community (?)

      What is the appropriate action when Federal over reach is so blatent and unaddressed?

      It's not as if people there are angry at ICE / DHS for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

      • mothballed 3 days ago

        Two things can simultaneously be true. That the legal criteria of obstruction have been reached, and also that the Federal apparatus routinely oversteps both the constitutional and the most essential natural rights.

        Just know the King interprets spitting and kicking tail lights as a 'shot at the King.' Pretti took his shot at the King, with his cosmetic accessory piece gun tucked in his waistband, at about 4 out of 100. And expected the King to meet him with something other than 100 or 0. In that light, I'll concede of the possibility he was morally right, but I also think he was a fool. If his goal all along was to kneel, let himself be disarmed, then quietly accept his execution like a bitch -- what did he even get out of it? He handed the pro-regime a major propaganda victory and the anti-regime nothing at best.

      • account42 3 days ago

        > What is the appropriate action when Federal over reach is so blatent and unaddressed?

        In a democracy? Voting, campaigning, running for office. Defintiely not vigilantism - or other people will also get to ignore laws that you like.

  • zahlman 4 days ago

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    • direwolf20 4 days ago

      Change of subject. This discussion is about tracking them.

    • VBprogrammer 4 days ago

      And yet without the video evidence provided by other protestors you'd still be spouting the line that Alex Pretti was brandishing his gun.

      • esseph 4 days ago

        Seems like a true believer in what is happening.