The feds work in mysterious ways, and I hope they’re doing to the MAGA traitor community what they did to the marijuana legalization, grower, and hardcore environmentalist communities on the west coast a couple of decades ago.
Here’s what I mean….
The feds would grant permits for Rainbow Gatherings, Hempfests, Earth First!, vegan, deep ecology, animal rights and other idealistic, ethical cause rallies on federal or state public lands.
We’d all show up with our drums and fire sticks, along with cannabis, DMT, LSD, shrooms, Monkey Wrench Gang eco-sabotage books and tools, and youthful, feckless idealism and energy.
Well into a celebratory evening, when many illegal acts and substances were on hand, and we were mostly dazed and confused in a happy way, feds and local gestapo would raid our gatherings.
As a journalist with a press pass, and being a white privilege male with short hair, I often saw the gestapo coming a mile away, and would run out to the road or trail to meet them and interview them about their plans.
When possible, I’d then run back to the event organizers and let them know the blue meanies are coming, everybody scatter into the woods, bury your illegal drugs, stomp out those illegal fire pits, be ready.
The meanies stormed in in like a military invasion, cordoning off huge acreage, running rampant through our culture like the Cavalry did to Native Americans in the iconic movie Little Big Man.
Lots of casualties and arrests, all on our side. But the stompers were angry that they didn’t find the illegal drugs they’d hoped were there.
We were stoner hippies who for the most part didn’t fight back, although the Earth First! contingent had hardened ex-military, survivalists and alpha males and females who sometimes did engage physically and managed to not just escape arrest or injury, but to inflict injury on those who came to injure us.
During these fiascos, I’d interview public relations flaks repping the various government agencies that were there to stomp us.
They’d say things like “these freaks are so stupid, they just walk into our trap.”
It took me a while to figure out what they meant, but when I did, I realized that they’d given us the permits to gather so we would out ourselves, meet all in one place engaging in “criminal activities,” making mass arrests easy.
Mass arrests were not only fun, they were profitable. Even a minor ticket given by a government official to a citizen on public land can result in a big loss of money for the “criminal.”
In other cases, these mass arrests ended up with dozens if not hundreds of people temporarily caged, with some forced to spend money on bail and/or lawyers.
A U.S. Interior Department higher-up explained that this is how you get rid of a radical culture you don’t like—lure them into a false sense of security, encourage them to meet in public, then bust them.
It’s a classic entrapment ambush, a set-up, a rope-a-dope.
In more recent times, law enforcement has used this tactic against Occupy Wall Street, Cop City protesters, Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ rights protests, the D.C. protest when Traitor Trump held the Bible upside down while protesters were being gassed and beaten nearby, and similar progressive causes. It works well for them. In Atlanta, they shot an unarmed Cop City protester and so far, no cop has been punished for that murder.
But maybe what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. We hear Margarine Traitor Greed and other right-wing traitors screeching that the January 6th insurrection was a false flag and/or entrapment.
To hear the GOP traitors tell it, all those Trump cultists who wanted to kill Pence, Pelosi, AOC, and other “enemies” of their Orange God, were nice people lured out into the open by being given official license to gather.
Hell, there were even videos of Capitol Police removing barricades and appearing to let MAGA humps into the Capitol without interdiction.
Then when these peaceful little victims exercised their First Amendment rights to use violence and vandalism to overthrow the legitimate election, they were cruelly arrested, and (gasp) some have been prosecuted.
Weird thing is, from start to finish, from arrest to jail to bail to sentencing, those of us in the environmental and marijuana rights communities back in the day were ALWAYS treated worse than even the most violent Jan. 6th traitor has been.
Arrested as a journalist at a public lands marijuana rally, I was caged in a hot police van with 15 other non-violent people for seven hours without water, handcuffed behind my back.
No bail. Arraignment in a week or two or who knows.
Jailed with murderers and rapists. Facing 5-25 years in prison. No special exceptions so those of us charged could go on vacation, leave the country, carry guns, and repeatedly break bail conditions—which has happened repeatedly with the Jan. 6th traitors and Trump himself.
Many of my compatriots, especially those in Earth First!, were given much worse jail and judicial system treatment, and longer sentences, than even the most-violent MAGA rioters so far.
I mean c’mon, they gave sweet, idealistic Reality Winner five years in prison for doing nothing more than trusting one of tankie Putinista Glenn Greenwald’s stooges.
Chelsea Manning spent years in solitary, suicidal and suffering, for exercising her duty to expose American war crimes. Read her book. You don’t see any of these MAGA cultists, or their daughter-hump fantasizer hero, being treated this way.
So when we in the progressive community look at today’s Miami spectacle, where the feds are predicting anywhere from 5,000-50,000 Trump traitors, many armed cuz it’s gun-fetish Florida, to show up to potentially riot, maybe we are seeing the government warring against the MAGA community the way they did against us.
Lure them out into the open, have plenty of video cameras recording, let them go crazy and use violence, then mass arrest the fools.
It could be that Biden, the DOJ, FBI and other agencies are playing 11-dimensional chess with the MAGA crew, a crew that can’t even successfully play two-dimensional checkers.
They’ve taken a page from the late, great Muhammad Ali—lay on the ropes, let ‘em come in and throw all they’ve got at you, then knock them out.
If you want to see that delicious moment, watch the movie When We Were Kings. With my condolences to Big George Foreman, of course.
It goes something like this:
- Biden and his team know we have a continuing civil war in America, that the Confederates never really surrendered, and are fomenting domestic terror with Trump as their General Lee.
- These new Confederates are sponsored and coached in part by Putin, have at least 150 million guns and plenty of ammo, and many of them are hunters, which means they are trained in and enjoy killing innocent creatures.
- Thus, we can’t have a Civil War 2.0 like we had the first time, because we don’t want bloody battlefields that instead of being verdant valleys, meadows drenched in northern and southern blood, we would have mass carnage in urban areas, as well as in the Jerry Springer show rural enclaves, especially in the South.
- So how do you stop the new Nazis, the Old/New Confederates, without a hot, shooting war? Lure them out into the open so they self-identify, let them commit their crimes, then arrest them en masse. It’s like leaving sweet poisoned bait for cockroaches; I don’t mean to insult cockroaches with the comparison.
Am I sure this is what’s going on? Not 100%. And I’m a realist, not a contrived optimist, so I realize I might be telling myself these things because it so deeply troubles me that we have a domestic terrorist group in the USA that’s far worse than any extremist Islamic group sponsored by the Saudis—because the terrorists are our neighbors, employers, and a percentage of police officers, statehouses, state legislatures, Congress, SCOTUS.
I have friends who wanted to go to Miami armed and face down the Trumpers today. I have friends who think it’s terrible that the Trumpers are allowed to go to CNN town halls, and Trump rallies.
I tell them, hey, maybe this is just what should happen. We certainly can’t go out and kill all the traitors. But they are very stupid people. If we just lay traps for them, they’ll eagerly jump in, like goobers at a Honey Boo Boo Duck Dynasty Free Junk Food Festival.
Hey there all you Trumpers, come on out. Bring your guns, Ivanka plush toys, Trump sacraments, illegal behavior.
Then get videoed, identified, arrested, and officially branded as criminals just like a small percentage of the Jan 6th idiots have been.
I hope that’s what’s going on, but better yet, maybe Trump’s mob won’t show up today. Maybe they’ll all be raptured to heaven, or more likely, chauffeured to hell.
One thing for sure, they are a dangerous threat to all we hold dear, and like an infectious disease, they need to be quarantined.
Post-Trump Arraignment Addendum: Reports from Miami indicate far fewer MAGA cultists showed up to support their Fuhrer than officials feared. Trump supporters telling media they learned the lessons of Jan. 6th, and will not do public insurrectionist chat talk, actions, or mass group insurrection anymore, but instead rely on covert lone wolf terrorists. As of mid-Tuesday the day of the arraignment, it looks like we, or they, speaking purely metaphorically, “dodged a bullet.”
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