All that matters is power, and power is not just law. Power has been concentrated by our enemies in such a way where law does not need to take precedence. If you were a liberal, and you even wanted to get back “normal” rule with the illusion of law, you’d have to start smashing away at the power they currently exert. That power is seen in ICE.

But that power is also a collaboration between the fascist elements of civil society and law enforcement agencies. This coalition is being let off the leash to act spontaneously. Both parties will enforce arbitrary law against us, and it might be impossible to use law against them. so far ICE has been the central focus, but we should expect other groups to eventually intervene, too.,

We can only start striking at them, and do so collectively. There is no guilt to be had in acting “illegally” against this formation. Your attachment to prior norms cannot save you. You have to realize that those norms are part of what brought us here, and always had this extralegal crackdown implied. The norms should have fended off Trump, but they didn’t. Those norms gave way to Trump as their protection. Those norms have to be replaced by the action of a mass against what we all know to be against the interest of humanity and life on earth.

We don’t need things to be written into law. Our actions together can become the law. What we want to do is replace prior norms, that were subordinated to an alienation within the state and its law, with a collective pursuit that’s heart speaks against what Trump represents. We want to share the burden across large numbers, so actions becomes less and less painful. We want the fear and anxiety we feel to be alleviated by seeing our force in numbers all around us. Only as a collective entity should we bear the biggest burdens of this kind of struggle.

We need to show collective strength. We need it to cut through propaganda in order to agitate more people into the process. A large force acting requires no additional propaganda. The large action can speak in a way that will eclipse the state’s power to propagandize against it. We want so many people to be involved and active that when they do escalate through something like an Insurrection Act, they will be surrounded by an entire society that gives them no room to maneuver.

We want their big battle plans to backfire immediately. We have to see them coming, then and brace for the violence, be brave, but also get others into the process of defending their society. In this kind of assault, we can shift the entire terms of what our society is. We can cause them to lose control of it, as we bring people into the fight, and collectively take the reins. We have to think on our feet. It’s defense, but we can make it offense. Kind of like an interception in football. Let the enemy think they have all the leverage as they go in for the attack, and then swoop in and shift the entire terrain by meeting them with a force they couldn’t have expected. They are mostly expecting a docile population.

If we refuse to be docile, and break the norms around individualism and atomization, we can throw them off their game. They spent a century attacking collective action, they feel like they are finally closing in on complete victory, and we have the power to completely render all of that activity wasted effort on their part.