FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester: "Your name was brought up."

You may not care about politics, but politics cares about you.

not caring about politics is a crime these days. This is just one example of completely unacceptable things happening.

You should! We shouldn't let ourselves be dragged silently into the dark times. In my opinion, it's our obligation to try to understand the landscape and to make sure that everyone — across the different political beliefs — is well off... Only then do you get a system that rewards merit, instead of whatever the heck you want to call what is being dropped on us.

The hour is fucking late now. Do it while you still can. People too busy pumping the stock market to see they are losing their right.

“Not caring” means you are privileged enough that you could look away for a long time. Politics definitely cared about you though.

Well, let's see. There were 7 million people at No Kings. I don't think one-on-one FBI visits is a scalable tactic to try to reduce the numbers.

So maybe this particular visit was not just about "chilling effect"?

You are now on a list.

> When federal agents, such as the FBI, attempt to question you, it is strongly advised that you do not talk to them without a lawyer present.

Good advice but it should be any law enforcement…not just federal agents.

“I don’t answer questions without my attorney present. Leave me your card and I will have my lawyer contact you” are powerful words.

Shame the constitution only matters when Trump or his cronies say it does. The American justice system has been broken and the cause came from within.

Them: ”Have it your way”, handcuffs, car ride to black site, jumpsuit, seat in a military-leased civilian airplane, flight to El Salvador.

Call your Respectives, donate where you can, and if you're active on social media: boost the voices you want to hear and let them get the word out.

And of course, keep your eyes peeled for any elections in your area. No matter how minor a position. If you can donate / volunteer for their campaigns, all the better. These situations will need to be fixed bottom up in the long term, so you never know what comptroller today becomes a senate tomorrow.

If you're American, go on strike. Nobody gives a shit about people holding signs and protesting peacefully. If you can't do anything to make the opposition care about you, don't expect them to do anything other than ignore you.

Censored is perhaps strong. But yes, it’ll likely get flagged for being off topic or get downranked because of arguing. Which I understand to an extent but I also feel like we’re approaching five alarm fire for democracy levels.

When it’s too late a whole lot of people are going to look up from their terminals and say “huh? What’s going on? You know, I try to avoid anything too political.”

EDIT: and it’s gone

Currently, number 1 on the front page. I expect it to drop in minutes.

EDIT: 3 minutes. That is how long it lasted after my comment before it was flag killed. I truly wonder what the line will be for all the technolibertarians and the "I don't care about politics" folks here to wake up to what is currently going on in this country.

Nailed it

God, I hated that phrase. Not because it was wrong, but because it was so weirdly soft and indirect. A bundle of ignobles! An assortment of the unseemly!

They're gleefully cruel fascist bigots.

A greasy KFC bucket of deplorables

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It's more like an admission that they fund astroturf campaigns themselves.

Or one of the most accomplished liars in history intent on turning one of the most powerful democracies in history into a dictatorship...

Not technically censored, just off-topic.

- Some people will flag any political content they see, believing all political content to be off-topic.

- Some people support the current regime and will flag any content they consider anti-establishment.

- Hacker News is designed so that it takes very few flags to stick, so as to aggressively filter signal from noise, for as greedy a definition of "noise" as possible.

There's no conspiracy here, it's just Hacker News being Hacker News. If you want to be able to discuss these things freely, find another platform. Otherwise just accept that any "political" content will very likely be flagged at some point.

It's against the sites rules.

> Is FBI being instructed that protesting ice is antifa terrorism?

Yes, both the President and the Attorney General have been doing this openly, and explicitly citing it as the basis for their instructions to federal law enforcement. They have also been prosecuting based on false testimony of federal officers about assaults (and being forced to dismiss a stunningly high number of filed cases on that basis), and still using the numbers from those false claims as basis for asserting a huge spike in assaults on federal offficers, which also is being cited directly as justification for reallocating resources and setting enforcement prioirities.

That’s exactly why they tried to claim there’s a terrorist “Antifa” group: since there’s no such organization or defining principles, there’s a lot of gray area to investigate anyone they find politically incorrect.

Everything that isn't in lock step with the administration is "radical" or a similar verb.

> What the hell is an "immigration radical"?

Probably something similar to those “domestic terrorist” parents who were investigated by the DOJ for speaking out at school board meetings in 2021?

If protesting ICE is anti-fascist, what does that make ICE? Sending the FBI to the homes of law-abiding citizens who happen to be planning to protest against government actions... What's that? More Americans need to start asking themselves questions like these.

I'm in Canada, but what's going on South of the border has become highly concerning. It's starting to feel like Belgium up here.

There is no such thing as antifa

> What the hell is an "immigration radical"?

There are people who think that every person on the planet should be able to immigrate to the US (or other first world countries). This is a radical position as it couldn't possibly work.

(I don't know about this person, I'm not saying it's widespread, just saying what a radical is.)