Comment by account42

20 days ago

> What is the appropriate action when Federal over reach is so blatent and unaddressed?

In a democracy? Voting, campaigning, running for office. Defintiely not vigilantism - or other people will also get to ignore laws that you like.

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account42

defrost 20 days ago

> Defintiely not vigilantism

So, free speech, licenced carry, local community resisting unlawful warrents, etc are all ok?

Voting, in the USofA, is ineffectual - it takes years to make change and the choices are essentially shite .. barely a Democracy, more a Republican Autocracy by design.

Of interest:

  On Monday, Judge Patrick J. Schiltz of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, appointed by President George W. Bush, suggested his patience with ICE had run out. After officials apparently ignored his order to permit a detainee to have a bond hearing or release him, he ordered Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, to appear in court on Friday to explain why he wasn’t in contempt of court. On Tuesday, the government released the detainee.

  Today Schiltz canceled the Friday hearing but went on to rake ICE over the coals. He identified “96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases” and commented, “The extent of ICE’s noncompliance is almost certainly substantially understated.”

  “This list should give pause to anyone—no matter his or her political beliefs—who cares about the rule of law. ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.” Schiltz warned that he would haul Lyons or other government officials into court if they kept ignoring court rulings. “ICE is not a law unto itself,” he wrote.

Letters from an American - https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-28-2026

The USofA is literally a country founded on the principle of not allowing Kings or autocracts, certainly not federal authority, step on states right and self determination.

direwolf20 20 days ago

What would you have do in on any other authoritarian regime?

If the government comes to your house and kidnaps your wife, is your first instinct 1: let them, don't fight and 2: vote harder?

mothballed 20 days ago

He chose option (3). Kick the tail light out, spit a bit, literally verbally asked to be assaulted, let himself be disarmed, kneel, and quietly submit his head for execution. What was the point exactly? The guy wasn't using any more logic beyond whatever spur of the moment emotional response he had.
I can understand resistance, but whatever he was doing looks more like he had some onset of an impulse control related mental illness.