Honestly, I would fall into this trap.
The federal agent genuinely sounds like she is a person having car trouble, this trap would work on me because I guess I too am a fundamentally decent person.
Just another example of manufacturing fear so that we don’t trust each other.
I’ve known people who got car jacked using the same tactics, DHS are continuing to use criminal tactics to fuck with working class people
They seem to like blurring those lines. As though the agents being in danger is part of the goal.
Makes you wonder, what government wants the spark to ignite the powder keg? That would be like packing the Reichstag with flammable stuff and telling a local arsonist about it – OH.
Just looking for an excuse to invoke the insurrection act and a means to rally the base.
As we all know, the worst of the worst tends to stop to help stranded motorists. It’s a well-documented criminal trait.
I may be from a hive of scum and villainy (southsiiiiide!), but also I have jumper cables, so back up while I take care of this.
You don’t have a son named Roger, do you?
Holy callback Batman!
A common use of spare battery is torture. There’s a clear correlation /s
I… this reminds me of a time that a good samaritan actually helped me when I was in trouble. He had a Hispanic accent and fucked off before the cops came, but him stopping to help might have saved my life.
I of course had no way of knowing his legal status, but it doesn’t matter to me. That’s the kind of person you want in your country.
This kind of “trap” is antichrist behavior. As in against the Bible and against the words of Christ.
Many Americans proclaim that they are a “Christian” nation, even though its own founding documents prescribed no religious alignment. It’s not hard to figure out why.
When the printing press was invented, the Church was against it because it did not want the knowledge of the scriptures to be accessible by commoners; it wanted control over how the scriptures were interpreted to keep the common folk acted in line with the Church’s interests.
For the most part, their fears were unfounded. Even today, with near-universal literacy rates, the average religious American has not actually read their holy book. They rely instead on preachers and the media to interpret the text for them, hence America’s widespread endorsements of the “prosperity gospel” and “empathy is a sin”.
No fucking shit. The people running this world are just there, no good, and should be gone.
Yeah that was Ted Bundy’s tactic too.
I am a fan of pilling people at bar trivia:
'Which tactic did Ted Bundy and Immigration Customs Enforcement both use to capture their targets?"
Sundown towns are here now. Seems repealing the Civil Rights Act is not an impossibility. Looks the Green Book is needed again.
What the fuck are you doing America?
Punishing people for any form of kindness so that they are wary of helping anyone else in the future…
That’s how you wear down the population, to dissuade people from engaging in resistance. This is also the point of the violent ICE raids: breaking the social fabric to better control people.
Sadly, it was worked perfectly for a whole generation.
No good deed goes unpunished
Teaching individualism /s
Dropping the mask.
Capitalism.
“Well that wont happen to my country, we’re exceptional! We will tame capitalism and make it work for us!”
Yeah well people thought that here.
Cartel tactics
Sounds like the end result of thinking empathy is a sin.
arresting those who are kind enough to help.
and conveniently, those people tend not to be republican.
Wouldn’t call it the end result, but rather the practice of attempting to make people less empathetic is that of an aggressor looking to divide the people. It has nothing to do with the concept of sin, and everything to do with breaking people apart, making people singular, more manageable targets.
This is a way of convincing people to be less trusting of those around them to prevent them from wanting to organize or cooperate with others out of fear that they may be suddenly arrested by undercover agents.
So here’s the new way to help stranded motorists in the US: hold them at gun point, handcuff them to a tree, then fix their car.
Don’t even need handcuffs, just need a thin tree or a pole.
Have them wrap one leg around the tree/pole and sit down on it, I remember reading that it would be nigh impossible for them to get up from that position without help
Tried it at as a child, got out easily
I mean… you could pull yourself up with upper body strength surely
It only works for out-of-shape people.
So most muricans.
70% of the time it works every time.
I don’t understand how this works. Like crosslegged and the tree is only between one of your legs, not the other? Like behind the knee?
This is honestly pretty smart on the part of the fascists. A big portion of what is so effective about the resistance is that it’s founded on strong community action. Neighbors helping neighbors, because it’s the right thing to do.
Posing as a neighbor in need makes that act feel riskier. It changes the calculus, just a little, in favor of not helping your neighbor. They achieve their near term goal of getting their victim, but there’s an even more valuable (to them) effect of weakening community ties overall.
Time to double down on looking out for your neighbors.
EDIT: Looking out for them so you can help. In case that wasn’t clear.
Hey, isn’t this what gangs and other criminals do the rob or kidnap and murder people? Oh, it’s the same picture?
Where the fuck is the suspicion, nevermind “reasonable suspicion” behind the use of this tactic? Is helping someone with a broken car a crime, an antifa gang symbol or something to that effect?
There isn’t even the pretense of crime fighting in this clip, just a bait trap to kidnap normal, caring people.
Helping someone is communist /s
Isn’t Oklahoma passing a law that makes it illegal to help an illegal Immigrant in any way? If these laws pass, then the agent can say they were posing as an illegal immigrant, making the helper immediately guilty of a crime.
I think their “rationale” is to snag the cartoon characters they’ve invented in their minds.
They expect an opportunist criminal to crime them.
This only makes sense if you believe there are literally millions of criminals in a town of 50 thousand residents.
I expect them to shoo away helpful people indefinitely
(Or, more likely, just arrest a random passerby and call it a success)
The real goal is to turn nice people into assholes like them.
Imo the fatal flaw in the US system is that DHS doesn’t have to have courts with juries for prosecutions. No jury would convict after hearing this was how somebody was caught
Juries are regular citizens. Regular citizens voted for Trump and don’t care about felonies, pedophilia, eating kids, fraud, adultery, etc.
Man shoots his own daughter in an argument about Trump in Texas and the grand jury wont even indict. They are fucking sick in the head.
I read that article too, the number of texas shootings that aren’t prosecuted paired with like the uvalde school shooting response just shows how little texas residents care for their neighbors and how unseriously they treat deadly violence. I’m not sure Minnesota has the same problem.
I wouldn’t be so sure, I live in the Minneapolis suburbs and work in a more rural area, there are plenty of people out here who are brainwashed by right wing propaganda. They’ll be turning in their neighbors for thought crimes the moment the regimes asks them to.
There is a degree to which jury selection occurs that makes it difficult to stack a jury with trump psychopaths.
