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Today in #Minneapolis there are massive FBI operations with the armored tank vans standing by and MPD actively collaborating. FBI agents are unmasked and pleasantly informing observers that it is not about immigration.
Very much feels like a propaganda operation (and morale boost for federal agents). Re-establishing the power to have a show of force and people's willing compliance to it.
FBI agents specifically mentioned drugs.
Ah, the drug war, the gift that keeps on giving to authoritarian governments.
Community violence serves reactionary ends (making some of us welcome our oppressors) and systems that keep people in power allow and encourage a level of violence.
And illegal drugs are an effective way to foster such community violence.
That is to say, 100 years of violent crime associated with illegal drugs (dating this back to Prohibition) is a real "the purpose of a system is what it does" learning moment.
