Isn't now the time to truly Rage Against the Machine?
What better time than now? Who better to do it than us?
The levers and wheels of Government power have been turned against the people. We have armed, masked Secret Gestapo operatives kidnapping and disappearing people off the streets. I’ve said this before, I’ll say it again — this is Ethnic Cleansing. It’s “Remigration.” It’s happening right now, right in front of our faces.
It’s not about “crime” or “criminals.” They don’t even care if they take people who are here legally, with a Visa, under Temporary Protective Status, or under Humanitarian Parole. Families being separated. It doesn’t matter if they were born here and are a U.S. citizen. All that matters is whether or not they are Brown.
It’s raw, naked, obvious Racism.
They have now increased the ICE budget so that it’s greater than the entire FBI. They don’t plan to stop, they plan to accelerate apprehensions to 3,000 people per day. They intend to “Remigrate” every brown person in this country back “home” whether they are a criminal or not.
Watch This:
[The video features an old interview with Zach De La Rocha of Rage Against the Machine. That interview was years ago and I’m greatly saddened that the band has been sitting on the sidelines for over 20 years. I have every intention of taking up that musical mantle myself in the new few years and have some old tracks already posted such as the songs “Wannabe?”, “Tumbling Down” and “Wake Up.”
There will be much more coming soon. I have the base tracks for over 40 new songs already recorded.]
It’s shocking to me how weakly we’ve responded to this.
Yes, I know that thousands are protesting in Los Angeles. Yes, I myself attended the “No Kings” rally here in Sacramento. I’ve seen the people outraged by these atrocities up close.
I also know damn well, it’s not enough.
Just for a second… imagine. Imagine that instead of roving bands of armed ICEstapo snatching up brown people in the streets, we had armed troops breaking down the doors of Americans to confiscate their guns.
Do you have any doubt what would happen?
Do you think that YallQaeda would put up with that for one second? The Grey Panters would be in the streets ARMED confronting the Storm Troopers face-to-face and gun-to-gun.
We know this would happen because it’s already happened before with movements like the Boogaloo Bois.
The Boogaloo movement is a decentralized ideological network that believes in a coming second U.S. civil war—referred to as the “boogaloo”—and espouses anti-government and anti-law enforcement rhetoric. While some Boogaloo adherents promote white supremacist beliefs, others have provided security for and demonstrated alongside racial justice protesters, making the movement difficult to classify along traditional political lines. During 2020, Boogaloo adherents increasingly attended protests and riots, and they often sought to capitalize on high tensions to incite violence and chaos. The movement’s decentralization, adherents’ proficiency in evading online content moderation efforts, and their ability to use social media to recruit new followers mean that the Boogaloo movement will likely continue to pose a threat—particularly to law enforcement and government targets—throughout 2021.
It was Boogaloos who attacked and set on fire the police station in Minneapolis sparking the violence in the early days of the George Floyd protests.
MINNEAPOLIS – A Texas man pleaded guilty today to a federal riot charge in connection to the 2020 civil unrest, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
According to court documents, Ivan Hunter, 24, admitted to traveling from San Antonio, Texas to Minneapolis with the intent to participate in a riot. Hunter is a self-described member of the Boogaloo Bois, a loosely connected group of individuals who espouse violent anti-government sentiments. The term “Boogaloo” itself references an impending second civil war in the United States and is associated with violent uprisings against the government.
On the night of May 28, 2020, Hunter was captured on video discharging 13 rounds from an AK-47 style semiautomatic rifle into the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct building. At the time of the shooting there were other individuals believed to be looters still inside the building. Law enforcement recovered from the scene discharged rifle casings consistent with an AK-47 style firearm.
Further… a lot of the violence that took place during the Floyd protests, were the Boogs.
According to the criminal complaint against Hunter, on 26 May, as intense protests broke out in Minneapolis over the killing of George Floyd by a city police officer, a “Boogaloo Boi” based in Minnesota posted a public Facebook message: “I need a headcount.”
Hunter, a resident of Boerne, Texas, which is roughly 1,200 miles away, responded: “72 hours out.”
Another “Boogaloo Boi”, based in North Carolina, posted a public message the same day: “Lock and load boys,” he wrote, adding, “the national network is going off.”
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By 28 May, during a night of the most intense unrest and destruction in the city, Hunter was in Minneapolis, just as the 3rd precinct police station, known locally as a “playground for renegade cops”, was being set on fire.
But wait, it gets worse. They did a drive-by shooting.
Later, he privately messaged Steven Carrillo, another alleged “Boogaloo Boi” in California, urging him to “go for police buildings”, according to the federal criminal complaint.
“I did better, lol,” Carrillo allegedly replied.
Hours before Carrillo sent that message, according to the complaint, federal prosecutors say Carrillo had driven to Oakland with an accomplice, and, as protesters were demonstrating blocks away, shot two officers guarding a federal courthouse in downtown Oakland, killing one, David Patrick Underwood.
Carrillo was later charged with killing another law enforcement officer, a Santa Cruz sheriff’s deputy, in an ambush attack in June.
According to the complaint, Hunter would later post multiple messages on Facebook bragging of his actions in Minneapolis on the night of 28 May and morning of 29 May, writing, “I set fire to that precinct with the Black community,” and, “My mom would call the FBI if she knew.”
“I’ve burned police stations with Black Panthers in Minneapolis,” he claimed in one message, and in another, “The BLM protesters in Minneapolis loved me.”
All the guys who were hanging out with Kyle Rittenhouse were Boogaloos.
An adherent to the far-right boogaloo movement — whose most extreme followers are reportedly looking to spark a civil war — was with Kyle Rittenhouse last week in Kenosha, Wisconsin, before the Antioch teenager allegedly opened fire on protesters, killing two and wounding another.
Ryan Balch, an Army veteran from West Bend, Wisconsin, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, said he met Rittenhouse in the lead up to last Tuesday’s shootings and spent much of the day with him. While Balch said Rittenhouse “had no connection” to the loosely organized group, he noted that as many as 32 boogaloo adherents were in Kenosha that day.
Balch, who has used social media to post Nazi propaganda and white nationalist messaging, described himself in a series of Facebook messages to the Sun-Times as a “Boog Boi.” According to the Anti-Defamation League, white supremacists, militia members and other extremists use the phrase boogaloo as “shorthand for a future civil war.”
I’m not advocating for this. I’m not advocating for taking up arms against the government.
I’m just shocked that it hasn’t started already happening again.
These frackers attacked Congress on the basis of a dumb racist conspiracy theory that black people had stuffed the ballots and stolen the 2020 election. It was flatly preposterous. It was physically impossible for that many people in that many states to coordinate in such a way and accomplish it without leaving a trace. Dominion Voting Machines did not “Flip Votes.” This is most obvious because Donald Trump won in the precincts that had Dominion machines, also Dominion Voting machines are used to create a paper ballots, so there is no electronic switch to “flip.” It was nonsense.
I know some driverless cars were burned, but beyond that, the pushback against ICE has been entirely peaceful. Nobody has met their force with equal force. Nobody has even considered it.
I’m proud to say that we have fought back using peaceful and legal means. I hope that continues. I hope that the remains of the Boogaloos, the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, III Percenters and other paramilitary groups remain out of the fray.
Most of them are racist White Supremacist Shitheads, so why would they take up arms to protect brown people, right?
As long as they’re only apprehending and renditioning Jorge and Rafael to the foreign Death Camp and Alligator Auschwitz what do they care? It’s not like cutting the USAID contracts with farms all over the nation, cutting the Infrastructure spending for rural highways, cutting Clean Energy projects that are providing much of the power in Texas, cutting Medicaid funding that will cause Rural Hospitals to close are going to come back and bite the MAGAs in fly-over country.
It’s not like they have any skin in this game.
It’s not like Trump just might turn around and viciously retaliate against any of his “close friends” if they happen to disagree with him on a minor side issue like the way he treated Elon Musk by threatening to cut off his government contracts, or denaturalize and deport him. It’s not like he’s already said that shit.
If he got mad enough, he would treat Musk just like Jorge and Rafael.
Right now these gun guys all think they’re “Safe.” They think they’re loyal and that Trump won’t touch them.
Yeah, but they just might be wrong about that.
What happens then?
It is time to raise the rage.
It may take a country wide sitdown strike.
Ps, do you have tracks on Substack?