• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    sues to

    Legal justice hasn’t happened yet, why do they think it’s going to change now?

    Our options are vigilante justice, or no justice.

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    US Marshals, FBI, and DC police are rogue and cannot be expected to enforce the law. They facilitated an illegal trespass, entry and ransacking of an independent, non-profit not under the jurisdiction of the executive branch.

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    DC Police are under the control of the civilian side of the city, presided over by Mayor Muriel Bowser. How the fuck are they just being turned into the Trump admin’s henchmen? They have no business handling federal affairs.

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      DC is fully funded by congress and the GOP has threatened to defund the city. It’s easy to criticize that from afar but going against Trump would mean a lot of pain and a lot of deaths.

      DC needs statehood.

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        What the fuck is wrong with you people?

        “but tHeY wIlL dEfUnD tHe cItY”

        LET THEM

        they are going to anyway! Fucking STOP THEM. You’re the ones with GUNS and BADGES.

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          And the folks with medical devices that require power like respirators or CPAPs? When city power is shut off they should just die?

          City infrastructure is incredibly important and DC is in a uniquely vulnerable position.

          Edit: If you’re in favor of murdering people with disabilities then I’m happy to say that your guy has really pulled through for you: https://lemmy.world/post/27063068

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        It’s a woman, and she’s a Dem mayor. That’s what has me confused. DC the city is not a GOP-friendly place. It’s a separate entity from the federal properties such as Congress and the White House.

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    At one point Monday, the firm’s prior private security firm — whose contract was ended after it coordinated with DOGE — also appeared at the building, at one point “proceed[ing] to walk toward the Institute’s gun safe,” pushing USIP staff to ignite its lockdown policy.

    Are all private security firms that corruptible?

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        I’m assuming it was originally for use by the private security personnel, since they knew where it was and apparently expected to be able to access it.

        Or alternately, the institute may have had a strict no-guns policy and the safe was for visitors to store their firearms when entering.

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      And at what point are they armed trespassers? And if the institute has guns…… Why the fuck aren’t they picking them up and defending the institute? What are they for? To sit in a safe, only for you to cry when someone walks toward them?

      The fuck.

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      I’m just sitting here finding it amusing that the Institute for Peace has a gun safe.

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      Can you really corrupt something that’s already corrupted? Someone else offered them more money and they’re for-profit security. Their morals rest on the bottom line.

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        Yeah, but you’d think that doing something like this would impact their ability to get future clients.

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          I think they just sent out a bid to all the billionaires: will invade any government entity for our true overlords

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      I know literally no one who has a ethical reason for entering private security - some folks become cops for high minded reasons like wanting justice or to protect the vulnerable… private security is where the weak go when they’ve been rejected from being an actual LEO (usually due to being absolute turds, only rarely for physical fitness reasons).