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Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents: ‘Why are they targeting a clarinetist?’
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2025
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To drive to the nearest ICE facility it's a 6 hour drive.
I can show up 6 hours after I get notice of shit going down. Or I could spontaneously show up, make a scene, get arrested, get a news article written about me. Who knows how long I'm in custody. I lose my job, my health insurance, my rental. Great, more time to protest?
But I also have a kid to take care of.
We got protests her this weekend. Obviously id rather participate in civil disobedience but that's kind of hard to justify when I'm keeping my kid alive 6 hours away from the nearest place it would be effective.
America doesn't work like Europe quite literally by design. Unions were violently oppressed, but a few prevailed. Which was awesome, then they tied all living requirements to being employed. WW1 hit. The Great Depression hit. WW2 hit. We transitioned into a military industrial complex. In 1972 Nixon axed the gold standard. The loud sucking noise was turned on. For the next 53 years we had less and less and less.
The homeless, the immigrants, the protestors that stand out. The weak, the disabled. Easy targets are being arrested. We can't be there to prevent the easy targets quicker than they can.
When ICE shows up here, we have a much larger number of people than they will to respond immediately.
Know what happens when ICE goes after targets that they are wrong about being easy? They're surrounded. Ridiculed. Heckled. Frightened by numbers into fleeing.
If you have better ideas, shut up, remember OPSEC and implement it locally first.