#vigilantism — Public Fediverse posts
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Lotta guys with #Punisher #stickers suddenly against #vigilantism #today
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"#vigilantism has no place in a just #society" well let me know when you #create this fucking "just society" and then we can #discuss that
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One of the marks of a civilized society is that authorities are required to submit evidence before an independent court & get a conviction subject to appeal. No evidence has been presented here. This is just vigilante thuggery.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-venezuela-boat-lethal-strike?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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#Luxembourg #vigilantism #censorship
"But he dismissed Clement’s suggestion that there was an 'alarming trend' of vigilantism in Luxembourg. Apart from the two cases already being investigated, no other incidences of 'self-justice' had been reported to the police in the last three years, the minister said.
However, Gloden emphasised that 'vigilantism is unacceptable in a constitutional state and will not be tolerated.'
He said the police have repeatedly called on citizens to report any criminal act or danger to another person and not to share it on social media, 'as this disrupts and prevents the work and investigation of the judiciary and the police.'
Removing online content
Gloden explained that Luxembourg’s transposition into national law of the EU’s Digital Services Act will define and enable the possibilities that the police and judiciary will have to remove social media content and prosecute vigilantes.
'This procedure could work similarly to that of the Terrorism Content Online law, where administrative measures can already be taken in the field of terrorism to remove content from the internet,' he said. Witnesses could also be offered the opportunity to report content to a so-called trusted flagger, the service provider or even the police.
Trusted flaggers are special entities under the Digital Services Act (DSA). 'They are experts at detecting certain types of illegal content online,' according to the DSA."
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This dude is on his path to either #vigilantism or #villainy, only time will tell ...
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"spotters in an #FBI surveillance plane saw someone pointing a weapon at a migrant, and agents reported that people were “possibly being held at gunpoint.” The #Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) dispatched officers...
No one was arrested for pointing a gun at migrants, though one of the armed men had a domestic violence conviction, public records show, and could not legally carry a weapon."
https://www.texasobserver.org/border-vigilantes-law-enforcement-texas-arizona/#Immigration #Vigilantism #Violence #Crime #Politics #USPol #USA #News
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When it comes to healthcare, however, the evils of the profit-crazed capitalists running the health insurance scam are identifiable and the impacts are as plain as day in their perfidy. When these companies deny needed cancer medication or treatment to a dad or mom with a third- or fourth-stage malignancy, or rehab therapy to a chronically weakened grandmother living alone, or emergency treatment for a wife with severe bleeding from endometriosis, the resulting damage is personal. When a loved one suffers terribly because of a denial of care by an insurer or even dies, it’s also clear right away who is the guilty party. This kind of abuse is happening all the time So it shouldn’t be surprising that some will react in the way Americans are so prone to act — with violence and particularly with guns or explosives.
United Healthcare, the fifth largest industry on the Fortune 100 List, got there by dint of its obscene if coldly mechanistic algorithms to deny care and it leads the pack with 32 percent of its clients’ claims denied. But it is not alone in its denials. As a chart in an article by Jeffrey St. Clair on Dec. 6 in CounterPunch shows, Medica and Anthem were not too far behind UHC, which boasted 27% and 23% denial rates, respectively. BlueCross/BlueShield, the purported not-for-profit that I personally discovered while trying to help an elderly friend get care covered, subcontracts with one of several for-profit companies to handle its denials and is in the mid-range with a denial rate of 17 percent of claims. (Given the industry denial rate average is 16 percent, so much for the Blues’ claim of being more caring because they are 'not-for-profit'! Although, in fairness, not-for-profit Kaiser Permanente did show the lowest denial rate at 7% of claims denied (a rate which UHC would define as worst, not best)."
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#DanielPenny and #LuigiMangione: 2 men greeted with public adoration, zeal for #vigilantism https://gothamist.com/news/daniel-penny-and-luigi-mangione-2-men-greeted-with-public-adoration-zeal-for-vigilantism
Reminds me of Horseshoe Theory. People who celebrate violence to solve problems are more similar than they are different.
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#BookReview:
#Vigilante #Nation – Jon Michaels and David Noll
by Josue Cisneros - Fall 2024
Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2024In their #newbook Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored #Terror Threatens our #Democracy, #legalscholars Jon Michaels and David Noll explain the resurgence of #vigilantism within the #farright, map the tactics it is using to destroy #US democracy, and introduce a #political program for how to tackle vigilantism by fighting fire with fire.
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"Even before the border was built [..] there were #BorderVigilantes. [..] Monica Muñoz Martinez describes the early-twentieth-century reign of terror carried out by the Texas Rangers [..] Kelly Lytle Hernández argues that during that period, white citizens and law enforcement viewed the violent control of the border as their shared prerogative."
"Death in Nogales"
https://archive.ph/aBFBi
#USpol #USpolitics #vigilantism #BorderMilitarization #migrants #AntiMigrantRacism #RacializedCommunities -
#ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump leans into '#lynching and #white #vigilantism' as his #campaign #disintegrates : #columnist
As Trump's #campaign falters near the finish line, he has turned to inciting #racial #hatred and #Political #violence.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #AntiSemitism #Homophobia #Misogyny #Racism #Transphobia #WhiteSupremacy #Xenophobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
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〝After locals intervened, the accused took Malik to another location and beat him again, leading to his death. Malik lived in a shanty near Bandhra village and collected waste and empty bottles for a living. The accused suspected that Malik consumed beef. A case under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) has been registered against the accused.〞
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/bengal-migrant-worker-beaten-to-death-haryana-cow-vigilante-group-beef-consumption-police-2591366-2024-08-31#India #Hindutva #Muslims #vigilantism #ruleOfLaw #lynching #Haryana
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@ProPublica Armed and Underground: Inside the Turbulent, Secret World of an American #Militia.Militias After #Jan6. Internal messages reveal how #ap3 one of the largest U.S. militias, rose even as #prosecutors pursued other #paramilitary groups after the assault on the Capitol. Organized #Vigilantism: AP3 has already sought to shape American life through armed vigilante operations — at the #Texas border, outside ballot boxes and during #BlackLivesMatterprotests #BLM. https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-secret-ap3-militia-american-patriots-three-percent
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Good, thorough look at the AP3 militia, particularly looking at their ties with law enforcement around the US, their really dangerous (for migrants) work at the Tex-Mex border, and their paranoid and violent vision for November.
From the article's summary:
- Militias After Jan. 6: Internal messages reveal how AP3, one of the largest U.S. militias, rose even as prosecutors pursued other paramilitary groups after the assault on the Capitol.
- Organized Vigilantism: AP3 has already sought to shape American life through armed vigilante operations — at the Texas border, outside ballot boxes and during Black Lives Matter protests.
- Close Ties With Police: AP3 leaders have forged alliances with law enforcement around the U.S. Internal files reveal their strategies for building these ties and where they’ve claimed success.
#militias #AP3 #APIII #threepers #ThreePercenters #ACAB #Vigilantism #BlackLivesMatter #Jan6 #Immigration
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-secret-ap3-militia-american-patriots-three-percent
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@marcelias "Republicans" brazenly want to sow public distrust towards the electoral system & process they themselves are rigging (per voter suppression & -intimidation, gerrymandering & disenfranchisement & other instruments of fraud).
#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendTheUnion #VotingRights #CivilRights #HumanRights #BanTheGOP #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #ElectoralFraud #Vigilantism #Terrorism
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@BigAngBlack The enemies of American democracy have organized to disrupt & obstruct every chance of free & fair elections.
Terrorism is intolerable & unnegotiable.“The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible, so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy, or despotism in some form, is all that is left.”
— Abraham Lincoln —#RuleOfLaw #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DisqualifyTheGOP #Insurrection #ElectoralFraud #ElectoralApartheid #Disenfranchisement #VoterSuppression #Vigilantism #VoterIntimidation #Terrorism #NationalSecurityThreat
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@marcelias When numbers tell you all you need to know about the criminal perfection of voter suppression:
Wikipedia's general article about voter suppression - estimated reading time: 28-35 minutes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppressionWikipedia's article about voter suppression in the U.S. - estimated reading time: 81-103 minutes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_United_States#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #VotingRights #ProsecuteVoterSuppression #VoterSuppression #VoterIntimidation #Vigilantism #Disenfranchisement #Gerrymandering #ProsecuteElectionRiggers #ElectoralFraud #BanTheGOP #DefraudingAmerica #ConspiracyAgainstRights #ConspiracyAgainstTheUS
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The far right turns to ‘legal vigilantism’
After the supreme court’s recent rulings against #affirmative #action and #anti-#discrimination #precedent, researchers who track the far-right movement are flagging a new model of #conservative #activism: #legal #vigilantism, an aggressive, lawsuit-threatening tactic used to intimidate universities and private institutions to comply with the new rulings.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/10/far-right-supreme-court-legal-vitilantism?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Christophe Jaffrelot writes: In the name of faith and state
Vigilante groups such as Bajrang Dal represent a deeper state that enforces a dominant view of society, which is not necessarily legal.
#karnataka #UttarPradesh #haryana #BajrangDal #VHP #RSS #HinduMobs #vigilantism #CommunalViolence #CowLynchings #BJP #hindutva #ChristopheJaffrelot #india