"Border militias" have been preparing for this for decades-the Klan ran border patrols in the 1970s, mercenaries in the 1980s, Minutemen in the 200s. They have been violent, extralegal actors and illegal private armies most of that time www.wired.com/story/border...
Border Militias Prepare to Ass...
@kathleenbelew.bsky.social Do these people have jobs? Something to do? A purpose in life? No.
I've known and befriended quite a few "militia types" over the past 35 years and none of them had regular jobs. None of them provided a useful service to society, All of them were full of rebelliousness against the status quo. Why, I never could figure out.
The common thread amongst all of them is "I do what I wanna do. Nobody tells me what to do. Laws are irrelevant. Nobody asked me about those laws. I don't recognize them as valid. So, I do what I wanna do and if you get in my way I'll kill your ass."
My personal belief about this is that we've never had people in society like this ever before in human history. We have, but they were killed at an early age. Today we're not allowed to kill failed humans like we've always done in the past 200,000 years. We have to be nice and tolerate them. And this is a very interesting new problem that modern society has to figure out.
