"These escalations against students are a choice. Police can be patient, even passive. The Texas DPS proved that when they loitered outside the ongoing slaughter of grade-schoolers."
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"When a DPS officer marches into a protest with a baton in hand & 3 rifle magazines in his vest he is not there to protect students. He is not a peacekeeper but the protector of war abroad. His weapons are an implicit threat against US students, in service of an explicit threat against Palestinians"
"Fascism can best be understood as bringing the methods of imperial rule in the colonies into the metropole." - Michael Novick.
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They have a fancy name here.
Lol according to Wikipedia the DOI and City Council have both called for further regulation.
Putting up the DOI mission for reference.
White supremacists openly marching screaming about genocide and fighting with counterprotesters - state governments: "If we send in police it'll just escalate things."
You have to admit there's a certain logic there. The Nazis would fight back, the students won't.
Maybe the solution is for the students to arm themselves.
DPS is just a collection of unintelligent mouth breathers. Sat next to one a few years ago and he told me he wanted to be be a forest ranger but didn't have the grades so he applied to where they did require decent grades: the Texas DPS.
I can never forget it.
I honestly don't know how there hasn't been a "suspicious pattern" of cops in that area suddenly disappearing, never to be seen again.
Similar arguments used for forcing people back into cars/commute into downtown business districts.
The collective good means buy your lunch downtown and rent office space -- instead of working from home. As defined by CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
