The perpetrators are never at fault, which puts ICE in a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-don’t position. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
making self-defense look like assault
“kick the dog until it bites, then demand the dog be shot for biting.”
this is very much the current playbook of the agents provocateur seeking to decry as fascism any resistance to their own depradations.
back in june, certain internet felines were discussing the tactics that would be deployed against ICE. you can read that HERE.
and this is all coming to pass.
it’s all the simple, well worn playbook of “force your enemy into an impossible choice and then make the story about how they react.”
they call it “putting your target in a decision dilemma.”
and then the next stage looks like this:
the whole point is to act badly, provoke reaction, and then act as though the reaction were the story, that self-defense is aggression, and that those trying to clean up your mess or deal with your violence are the mess making bad guys.
you “lead with sympathetic characters” (like women and children) and you “play to the audience who isn’t there.”
but don’t take my word for it. go read their own websites. they are not shy about telling you how they do this and these are professionals paid for by vast networks of grants from the brandon administration (more here).
The comrades want ICE to shoot a useful idiot or fellow traveler?
A panda, comrade Xi is not happy.
Tell me more about how terribly oppressed you are.