You can find the full bill here: https://t.co/3WgchuFqXf
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#BLM & Movement for Black Lives are promoting a 128 page bill that brings their radical protest demands into political reality.
The bill eliminates DoD ops, stops counter-terrorism programs, offers social services to illegal immigrants, &
You can find the full bill here: https://t.co/3WgchuFqXf
1. Repeal federal funding for local law enforcement.
The first two pages alone "abolishes" the D.E.A. and removes local law enforcement's ability to access federal funding for bulletproof vests.
ICE
Border Enforcement Security program
Countering Violent Extremism program
Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Program
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Denaturalization Program
The bill prevents the U.S. from preventing international drug trafficking and manufacturing disruption efforts, no funding to support the building / repurposing of prisons.
A vague section of the bill calls for creating a grant program to "fulfill the U.S. Government's treaty and trust obligations to tribal nations." There is no specifics provided.
One of the hallmarks of the #BLM movement has been expanding the definition of "violence" to include everything from incarceration to a lack of financial reparations...
Rather than allowing the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Program to operate as usual, the bill moves to transfer the responsibilities of that program into a new program
Goals for the next subsection include:
-reduce funding for Department of Defense by 10% in 2021.
https://t.co/7T4tJBXfNZ
- The commission would be provided $12 million dollars to operate.
-The commission's duties would include oversight on DoD decisions and...
Eliminate the @SpaceForceDoD
Eliminating the U.S. F-35 jet
Reducing overseas troop deployment by at least 50%.
Stopping the construction of new military aircraft
Eliminating Overseas Contingency Operations program.
Ending funding to foreign military forces
Eliminating funds allocated to the European Deterrence Initiative, the Defense Emergency Response Fund, Pacific Deterrence Initiative, and Base Operations Support
https://t.co/xDJsuSwh01
Again, what is explained above is only 10 of the 128 total pages.
Fantastic marketing, but this bill has more to do with controlling policing & defense than civil rights.
https://t.co/4LtaYKPD36
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More severe police injuries and deaths on that one day of rampaging Trumpers than in five years of Anti-Police protests.
You can tell a lot about the stance of a angry crowd by whether they come with shields or pitchforks.
If people protesting police brutality for years had wanted to use their large numbers to attack, maim and kill police, they damn well could have.
But they came to resist police.
Which is completely different.
Why did the police suffer more at the hands of those who claimed to support them and waved their flags than at the hands of those who think they should be defunded or abolished?
Because one group is literally arguing for human dignity and the other glorifies violence.
The people who uncritically support police brutality are those who believe that instrumental violence should be a standard tool in response to those standing opposed to you.
Once you accept that... WHO is standing opposed to you doesn't matter much.
Nearly 140 officers were injured during pro-Trump extremists' Capitol siege \u2014 including officers who sustained brain injuries, smashed spinal discs, one who'll likely lose an eye, and another stabbed with a metal fence stake, the Capitol Police union said.https://t.co/D9jFSkKtJm
— NPR (@NPR) January 28, 2021
You can tell a lot about the stance of a angry crowd by whether they come with shields or pitchforks.
If people protesting police brutality for years had wanted to use their large numbers to attack, maim and kill police, they damn well could have.
But they came to resist police.
Which is completely different.
Why did the police suffer more at the hands of those who claimed to support them and waved their flags than at the hands of those who think they should be defunded or abolished?
Because one group is literally arguing for human dignity and the other glorifies violence.
The people who uncritically support police brutality are those who believe that instrumental violence should be a standard tool in response to those standing opposed to you.
Once you accept that... WHO is standing opposed to you doesn't matter much.
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