Does anyone else think that part of the US government's intention with ICE's recent wave of murders, assaults, and abductions might be to direct public outrage away from US war crimes (and losses) in Iran (and Palestine, Lebanon, Venezuela, etc.)?
I saw, several months ago, that GDF put out a video titled "the ICE distraction" or something like that, but I didn't watch it because I kind of reflexively disagreed with the idea that
ICE activity was
just a distraction - which may or may not have been his argument, I'll watch it later. Anyway, while I still don't think ICE is
just a distraction, it's becoming increasingly difficult to ignore a pattern here, which I'll illustrate below:
1. US is facing massive public outrage for its pointless wars, and the atrocities, expenses and losses associated with it. Protests ensue.
2. The government ramps up repression, sending ICE out to abduct activists, or just cause general mayhem.
3. The entire focus of the protests then shifts to stopping ICE or getting activists released from unlawful detention.
4. ICE dials down operations, or the activists are released. Protesters celebrate a "victory."
5. Meanwhile, the US/"Israel" are fusing militaries, and during the course of steps 2-4 (approx. 1 month), the IOF and US occupation forces killed another several thousand people, and CENTCOM lost another several billion dollars in equipment and several hundred more (undeclared) US casualties.
This is now happening
again and again, yet the western orgs seem deeply unaware of it.
Mahmoud Khalil gets abducted, protesters get together and yell about it, a legal fund is raised, he's released, the people cheer and claim their victory, he's taken again, the whole process repeats. At no point in this process has any of the effort spent to release Mahmoud Khalil been used to kill IOF terrorists or cripple the munitions plants, logistics hubs, or ports used to arms IOF terrorists with US public money. The methods used to free Mahmoud Khalil, which are entirely within the confines of the US legal system, cannot
ever work without someone in the American state consenting to release him. There is no prison break, there is no tangible threat to the system which unjustly abducted someone on account of their
wrongthink, protesters "win" without "winning" again and again and never build the organized power to get actual material
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