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Russ Vaught's rescissions for blue states only reinforce it
imperial boomerang: Trump is waging an internal war of counterinsurgency
Chicago Theater of Operations: Training for Further Cruelty
https://open.substack.com/pub/lucid/...ago-theater-ofTrump told the U.S. military commanders convened in Quantico that “inner cities” should be used as “training grounds” for the military. This was evident in the Chicago theater of operations, where agents also enacted Trump and Hegseth’s redefinition of the battlefield and the enemy. After days of flooding the streets with troops, on October 1 the government staged a multi-agency raid on civilians in an apartment building in the middle of the night. State security forces used weapons of war —a Blackhawk helicopter, military-scale vehicles, flash-bang grenades —on families with the excuse of looking for undo ented immigrants and people supposedly connected to foreign drug gangs and cartels.
“I’ve been on military bases for a good portion of my life,” saidDarrell Ballard, who lives in the building next door, of the Chicago raid. “And the activity I saw – it was an invasion.”Some residents came back to find that state security forces had returned to wreck their apartments and removed furniture and electronics.
Private homes become targets in COIN warfare waged by a military abroad, where an occupation or invasion by a foreign power is being contested by the civilian population. When you are fighting irregular forces, everyone can be a suspect or collaborator.
But such thinking also guides the behavior of militaries staging occupations and crackdowns on domestic soil. Here it is Democratic-run cities that are enemy territory to be occupied, but in juntas that follow military coups it unfolds at a national level. I do not exclude that happening here if Trump starts to face resistance in Republican-led states and cities.
Chile is an instructive case. After the 1973 U.S.-backed coup, the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet used the excuse of foreign invaders to ins ute an extended state of emergency which it called the “time of war.” Declaring war on Chileans allowed for exceptional measures and the redefinition of civilians as enemy combatants who could be tried by military courts, tortured by soldiers, and so on.
I wrote extensively about Chile and the larger history of the “foreigners are coming over the border” propaganda theme in my book Strongmen. We are seeing a repe ion of it with the Trump administration’s claims that foreigners are partnering with subversives inside America, and thus only an ongoing armed state crackdown can eradicate the double threat.
The Chicago assault reminded me of Pinochet’s attacks on neighborhoods inhabited by poor people, and more generally of the treatment the junta gave to “enemies of the state” of all social classes. Not only were they arrested, but their books and other possessions were thrown into the street, and objectionable books were burned by Chilean soldiers. Such public spectacles are designed to send a message that “we are all-powerful, we can humiliate and harm you” and terrorize the population.
Chilean soldiers incinerating books after raids on apartment buildings in Santiago. Source: Gonzalo Leiva Quijada, El Golpe Estético Dictadura Mlitar en Chile 1973-1989, (Santiago, 2012).
When civilians are redefined as enemy combatants, the path is open to treat them with maximum brutality and erase their humanity. Chicago was a teaching moment for police and other state security forces nationally: they are being told by White House shadow chief Stephen Miller and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth that they are now "unleashed" and their hands "untied."That is why naked children were tied up and placed on public display for hours in Chicago.
Pertissue Fisher was among those taken out of her home in the middle of the night. “They just treated us like we were nothing,” she told ABC7 news. That was the point.
Russ Vaught's rescissions for blue states only reinforce it
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chicken little
^ What is this dip talking about now?
If I understand this correctly, BPS shot live fire into a car, and later found a gun after the victim drove herself to the hospital.
Details are murky, but BPS is in way over its head imho
htps://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10/04/shooting-involving-federal-agents-in-brighton-park-under-investigationU.S. Border Patrol shot a woman Saturday morning on Chicago’s Southwest Side, marking the second shooting since President Donald Trump’s administration launched an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the area last month.
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said the shooting erupted after patrolling agents were “rammed by 10 cars” and “boxed in.” Agents then fired “defensive shots” when they discovered the woman “was armed with a semi-automatic weapon” while driving one of the cars, McLaughlin said.
The Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ have not independently verified the feds’ account. The exact time and location of the shooting weren’t immediately known.
McLaughlin said “no law enforcement officers were seriously injured,” and the wounded woman “drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds.” But Larry Merritt, a Chicago Fire Department spokesman, said she was found near 39th Street and Kedzie Av
unfortunately asking kw is scant help on that account
CPD choking on tear gas fired by ICE seems to be happening
LOL BlueCommieSky...
Btw, LOL CommiePD choking on tear gas... GOOD!
you think CPD are commies?
correspondent for the Economist
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
the crispy conspiranoid online has long theorized police violence as a real estate developer (in cahoots with local police) condemnation/conversion scam
police render the property uninhabitable, the resulting tax adjustment puts money back into the landlord's pocket while also getting rid of all his pesky tenants
Illinois Governor, JB Pritzker
cons utional for connotational?
was this AI transcribed?
I think the Portland PD are commies. Chicago PD might be the same but I doubt they're all commies.you think CPD are commies?
ok
maybe you should tell them that
I wouldn't dare go to Portland. If I did, I'd be in jail instantly because I'm not as nice as those independent journalists who keep getting harassed by all them weak leftists.
you think Portland is too dangerous for you?
lily-white Oregon?
Too dangerous? Who said that? No, I said I wouldn't put up with fat es yelling at me and trying to hit me with sticks; I'd simply beat the out of them and all their tranny buddies too. ing laughable that portland's resistance is made up of junkie trannies and fat s. It's ing hilarious!you think Portland is too dangerous for you?
lily-white Oregon?
I have no idea what you're talking about, where do you get this stuff?
Where do you get all the bs you post? Oh yeah, BlueSky, RawStory, and MotherJones.
I post from a wider palette of sources than anyone hereWhere do you get all the bs you post? Oh yeah, BlueSky, RawStory, and MotherJones.
you don't post but your own bs
LMAO Sure bro, sure... Whatever you say Bouts 2.0
where is bouts?
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