Somehow, Palpatine the secret police returned.

If you’ve been sleeping under a rock, you won’t know that ICE has been conducting raids all over America, and that Trump has just signed an order for TWO THOUSAND members of the National Guard to occupy Los Angeles, California for 60 days (or more) over an overwhelmingly peaceful, if tense, protest. This is a (melo)dramatic show of force, needless escalation, and waste of taxpayer money, like nearly every policy that’s wafted out of the Trump administration’s various orifices.

ICE, the deployment of the National Guard, and involvement of Marine forces against American citizens is inefficient, immoral, and unconscionable. I hope to sway you that this is the case, especially if you haven’t been keeping a close eye on these developments.

ICE is the Gestapo? Really?

Yes, really. In fact, ICE operates extremely similarly to WWII-era Nazi Germany’s secret police. They routinely operate in defiance of any public accountability, arrest indiscriminately using fake warrants, and are not beholden to judicial review to deport you if you happen to have been born with the wrong color of skin. If this doesn’t set off alarm bells, I don’t know what would, apart from them bashing down your door or kidnapping you off the street, then hauling you off (like they’ve done to countless families–without warning, recourse, legal proceedings, or even a single phone call).

It’s also an amusing coincidence that both the Gestapo and ICE happen to have (allegedly) employed drug addicts and criminals because they can’t get enough warm bodies otherwise; have to hide their faces, names and badge numbers; and also run like cowards at the first sign of trouble. But I digress.

Military Deployment Against Our Own Citizens

Good Lord, this is like the 8th Constitutional crisis and 500th legal crisis created by the Trump administration this year. The Constitution delineates clear divisions of power between the presidency and the Congress. It is laid out in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments. The Posse Comitatus Act forbids using the military unless specified by statute or in the Constitution. Trump’s deployment is more illegal than many of ICE’s victims.

Additionally, the deployment of over 2,000 troops overnight is a logistical nightmare. Because of the short notice, servicemen and servicewomen were forced to sleep on the floor of a parking garage without adequate supplies. A picture is worth a thousand words.

Many of the troops were later able to sleep in hotel rooms. But rooms, food, and water aren’t free. Additionally, LA Police already had sufficient reinforcements from neighboring police districts to handle the “riots” (which, I must point out, having watched hours and hours of footage firsthand, has been overwhelmingly peaceful–unless you happen to be a Waymo). Military training also does not include tactics for non-lethal crowd control like police training does–meaning this unprecedented and illegal deployment of troops against our own citizens amounts to no tangible benefit for literally anyone. This all tallies up to a colossal waste of both money and manpower (DOGE, the call is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE).

Why do we need to resist ICE?

Because we have a basic sense of moral duty, we hate feeling terrorized and having our neighbors feel unsafe, and because it’s cool as hell to fight against evil secret police. It’s the duty of every God-fearing AND god-smearing American–especially those of us with pasty skin–to stand on the front lines in between our neighbors and these lawless, heartless childnappers (← yes, that’s at least three different recorded instances, including one child WHO WAS DYING OF CANCER AND DEPORTED WITHOUT MEDICATION).

Okay, but how do we actually resist?

Organization, documentation, (non-violent) strategization, and good old-fashioned shaming.

• Get to know your neighbors.
  • Go knock on doors and introduce yourself. It’s awkward. Some people won’t be happy about being disturbed. Even still, you need to be on good terms with your neighbors and have each others’ backs. You should see why in the video I’ve linked below.
• Join your local protests.
  • More bodies means more pressure, less chance of successful kidnappings happening, and more opportunity to document the crimes being committed against American people. ICE are cowards with no training on how to deal with crowds. Given enough physical pressure, you can make them flee.
  • FIND YOUR LOCAL 50501 PROTESTS HERE!
• Report!
  • Phones out! Report any activity you see to your local friends, groups, and news outlets. One website, People Over Papers, is being used by groups to report ICE sightings and operations. Your city’s subreddit is also a forum to spread the word. Facebook is another good option. Find local clubs, groups, or online communities such as local Discord servers to get a wider reach.
• Record!
  • To the best of your ability and safety: record faces, names, and badges of all ICE agents. They will overwhelmingly not do this willingly, especially if confronted by a crowd. It’s your duty to name and shame the people who are betraying our citizens and convictions. If you doubt the effectiveness of this, consider that somewhere around 70% of January 6th arrests came from tips and informants from people viewing footage of the event. Even if they don’t necessarily do anything illegal, the families, friends, and future employers of these ICE agents deserve to know what kind of people they are. If the law is helpless, then all we have to fight back with is social pressure.
• Being clumsy, unhelpful, or obtuse isn’t a crime.
  • I read something from the Citizen’s Saboteur guide (which I was reading as a matter of historical curiosity, and will not link for obvious reasons) which has stuck with me. It’s not illegal to be incompetent: “Always be profuse in your apologies. Frequently you can ‘get away’ with such acts under the cover of pretending stupidity, ignorance, over-caution, fear of being suspected of sabotage, or weakness and dullness due to undernourishment.”

How have ICE raids been foiled before? Take a look at the video(s) below for inspiration.

Lastly, if I can offer some advice: ICE is not trained in crowd control measures and will fold in the face of a crowd. Keep a tight hold and lock arms with whoever they try to kidnap–they can take away one person easily, but they can’t budge a group. Lastly, ICE (without cooperation from local police, especially in sanctuary cities) does not have access to local jails or have the capability to book and prosecute (white) protestors. Be disruptive. Be vigilant. And most importantly, be careful.

We can resist. We can win.

Seriously. Go out and meet your neighbors. Find a group to plug into. Find your local protests HERE. America is counting on you.