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We're all born with the right to life [br]liberty and pursuit of happiness.

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There's no reason why we can't just [br]do so much more than we're doing.

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We need crime in America.

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We need looting and burning [br]and destruction of property.

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I want to make it absolutely clear.

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The more chaos,

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violence,

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the better it is!

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I'm Joe Biden, and I approve this message.

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Oh hello.

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Welcome to System Fail, a show [br]that lives by the golden rule.

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An alleged gang of sheriff's [br]deputies within the L.A. County

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Sheriff's Department known as the Executioners

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A gang of rogue deputies with matching tattoos

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As many as 40 percent of Compton [br]deputies are Executioners

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Breaking news out of Compton. Two LASD [br]deputies reportedly shot in the head

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Damn....

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Later that night anti-police protesters showed

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up at the hospital to yell at [br]deputies guarding the facility.

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Daaaaaaamn!

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Actions have consequences. People [br]don't like law enforcement.

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Straight outta Compton!

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In the months since the George Floyd rebellion,

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racial tensions in the United [br]States have remained high.

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Tonight Louisville, Kentucky [br]is under a state of emergency.

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Say her name!

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Breonna Taylor!

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Uproar over the wealthy white couple who waved [br]firearms as black lives matter protesters

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marched past their palatial home in St Louis

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This period of generalized unrest has [br]been punctuated by brief, yet intense

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bouts of looting and anti-police rioting [br]in cities like Chicago and Philadelphia,

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as well as drawn out standoffs such as [br]those of the so-called CHAZ in Seattle,

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and the more than 100 nights of [br]recurring clashes in Portland Oregon.

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ACAB - All Cops Are Bastards!

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Yo Portland, we gettin lit!

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On Sunday August 23rd these [br]tensions flared up again

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when police officers in Kenosha [br]Wisconsin shot 29-year-old Black man

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Jacob Blake, seven times in the back.

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The shooting, which left Blake paralyzed, occurred [br]right in front of three of his young children.

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Kenosha residents were swift to respond.

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Chaos on the streets of Kenosha Wisconsin

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Multiple buildings set on fire

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We had a couple of thousand out here [br]clashing with police and law enforcement

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That night a car dealership was torched

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along with three garbage trucks that [br]police had set out as makeshift barricades.

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Dozens of businesses were looted and burned

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and the courthouse was attacked [br]smashed up and temporarily set on fire.

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Rioters clashed with local police,

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allegedly damaging a Lenco [br]BearCat armoured personnel carrier

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Fuck 12!

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and pelting cop cars and officers with bricks.

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Now what?!

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Oh my god!

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What happened?

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Ohhh! He just got bricked. He just got bricked!

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Hooowdy Ho!

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An official press conference the following [br]afternoon was attended by a mob of angry

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demonstrators, who rushed the public safety [br]building that houses the Kenosha police,

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sheriff and fire departments.

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You racist bastard!

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Responding to the disorder, a local [br]militia called the Kenosha Guard

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put out a call for armed [br]vigilantes to come to the city,

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to help defend private property [br]and suppress the riots.

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A facebook event scheduled for the following [br]night soon attracted more than 5 000 participants.

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Despite the event being flagged [br]455 times as a breach of the

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company's violence and incitement policy, [br]facebook moderators decided to leave it up.

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There have been a bunch of media reports asking,

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you know, why this page and [br]event weren't removed sooner.

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It's just another reminder that [br]facebook is trying to organize

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white militia groups during this this, uh, [br]very sensitive and highly charged time.

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Nightfall brought more looting and arson attacks,

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including the burning down [br]of the probation office.

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On the third night the crowd of armed [br]militia members and other white vigilantes

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assembled by the Kenosha Guard hit the [br]streets to the fanfare of local police

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Within this ragtag posse was [br]17 year old Kyle Rittenhouse,

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a baby-faced teenager from the quiet [br]middle-class town of Antioch, Illinois

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who would go on to shoot three [br]demonstrators that night with an AR-15.

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Two of his victims, Joseph Rosenbaum [br]and Anthony Huber were killed

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while a third, Gage Grosskreutz [br]was seriously injured.

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Rittenhouse is a former police cadet

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Loser!

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and a proud member of the blue lives matter crowd,

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who has been a cop fanboy [br]since he was a young child.

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I love bacon.

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In many ways, he is a quintessential [br]representative of America's white

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suburban middle-class youth

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I deserve McDonald's french fries!

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This has made him an ideal poster [br]child for conservatives and armed

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reactionaries of all stripes, who have [br]presented him as a hero in their imagined

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war against so-called antifa and [br]black lives matter terrorists.

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This is a 17 year old kid. [br]This is - this is amazing.

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#Fightback, founded it says to [br]counter the lies of the radical left,

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has raised a reported seven [br]hundred thousand dollars.

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Kyle Rittenhouse is a national treasure.

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He is a - in a sense - a hero.

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He seemed like a good young man.

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He didn't empty a magazine into a crowd.

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He exhibited more restraint than a lot [br]of the police videos that I've seen.

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Three nights after the shootings [br]in Kenosha, Patriot Prayer member

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Aaron Danielson, AKA Jay Bishop, [br]was shot and killed in Portland

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in an apparent revenge attack carried out [br]by anti-fascist militant Michael Reinoehl.

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Bishop appears to have been mainly known [br]in anti-fascist circles for having spoken

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out in favor of fellow Patriot [br]Prayer supporter Jeremy Christian

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Death to antifa!

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a neo-nazi, who stabbed three people [br]on a Portland bus in May 2017.

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Police say this man verbally [br]attacked a Muslim woman on a train,

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and that when good samaritans came [br]forward to help, he stabbed them to death.

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These three people that died,

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or were stabbed are not heroes. And [br]they deserve everything that they got.

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Members of Patriot Prayer had been in the city [br]earlier that day for a Trump 2020 Cruise Rally,

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an obnoxious spectacle where participants [br]drove around honking their horns while

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shooting paintball guns at counter-protesters [br]from the back of pick-up trucks.

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In stark contrast to the two [br]demonstrators killed in Kenosha,

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the media went to great lengths to [br]humanize Bishop after his death,

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with some conservative outlets dubbing him [br]the 'MAGA martyr', and FOX News featuring

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a sombre interview with Patriot Prayer [br]founder, and right-wing hack, Joey Gibson.

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My understanding is Jay was a good [br]friend of yours. Tell us about him.

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Yeah Jay's, uh, he's one - he's one of the [br]nicest people I've ever met in my life.

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These three people that died, or were [br]stabbed deserve everything that they got.

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Five days after Bishop's death, a multi-agency [br]US Marshals hit squad tracked down Reinoehl

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in the town of Lacey, Washington, and summarily [br]executed him as he was getting into his car.

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One witness reported that the [br]officers didn't even bother

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to identify themselves before [br]all four of them opened fire.

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Reineohl had given an interview earlier that day,

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in which he claimed he had [br]acted out of self-defense.

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I felt that my life, and [br]other people around me's lives

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were in danger, and I felt like I had no choice.

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As soon as the smoke had cleared, US Attorney [br]General William Barr released a statement

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celebrating Reineohl's assassination, and further [br]conflating the label antifa with terrorism.

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The vigilante shootings in Kenosha and [br]state-sanctioned killing of Reineohl

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are less likely to shock Black [br]or Indigenous communities,

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who have been subject to this level [br]of violence (and worse) for centuries.

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The main thing that stands out in this case [br]is that all the people killed were white.

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In the wake of the George Floyd rebellion, the [br]American state and its white paramilitary proxies

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have responded to the threat of a multi-racial [br]rebellion in the same way that they always have.

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Namely, with a combination [br]of outside agitators rhetoric

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'Professional agitators' is what we call them. [br]Their entire goal is to come here and wreak havoc.

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and targeted repression.

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Man. They were not playin.

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Fuck.

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This is pushing the struggle in [br]the US in a dangerous direction.

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Many on both the left and the right have [br]raised the specter of a second civil war

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as a potential outcome to the current state of [br]extreme political polarization in the country.

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Recent events will only encourage this trend.

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Because believe me, once the veneer of [br]civilization peels off, and once the shooting

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war starts, there's been a lot of Santa Clauses [br]that have been makin lists and checkin it twice.

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Whoah hey, how's it going. Packin' [br]heat. That's pretty hardcore man.

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Chances are you may never have [br]heard of a three percenter.

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A group called boogaloo believes [br]there's an impending civil war.

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I would argue we're in a new civil war.

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The question is, who exactly [br]do they plan on fighting?

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Whether or not this actually comes to pass,

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the growing political divide is certainly being [br]exploited by Donald Trump, who is intentionally

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fanning the flames of urban unrest in an [br]effort to win over white suburban voters

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left-wing anarchy and mayhem

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rioting, looting, arson

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no one will be safe

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They will apply their disastrous policies [br]to every city, town and suburb in America.

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even as he warns the upcoming [br]election is being fixed.

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It'll be fixed it'll be rigged.

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There's a lot of fraudulent [br]voting going on in this country.

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No fraud? No fraud, really? Why don't [br]you take a look all over the country?

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Elections are one of the primary means by which [br]democratic states maintain their legitimacy,

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and recuperate threats to their ruling classes.

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With trump making it clear that he is not [br]likely to accept a Joe Biden victory in November

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I will totally accept the results...

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if I win!

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the 2020 election could well usher in a political [br]crisis like nothing before seen in US history.

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stand back and stand by.

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Disputed elections are often [br]catalysts for broader social ruptures.

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Just look at the situation in Belarus.

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Belarus is a former Soviet [br]Republic, commonly referred to

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in the west as Europe's last dictatorship.

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It depends on taste.

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Its strongman president is Alexander [br]Lukashenko, who some viewers may recognize

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from that strange video that IRPGF fighters [br]in Northern Syria put out a few years ago.

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Alexander Lukashenko, we are [br]setting our sights on you.

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Or perhaps from his meeting with [br]washed-up 1990s action hero Steven Seagal,

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in which the star of such blockbuster [br]hits as Under Siege and Hard to Kill

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was gifted a pair of Belarusian pajamas, [br]and a sampling of locally grown produce.

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Nice.

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Lukashenko has been in power for 26 years,

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and it's clear that the majority of people [br]in Belarus have had enough of his rule.

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The chants to mark the occasion of his [br]66th birthday: happy birthday you rat.

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Popular sentiment has only hardened since [br]the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic,

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particularly after Lukashenko downplayed [br]the severity of the crisis, suggesting that

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Belarusians could avoid the virus by drinking [br]vodka, hitting the sauna, and doing farm work.

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Faced with the incompetence of the [br]state, residents of Belarus began

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setting up mutual aid networks to help [br]fight the spread of COVID-19 themselves.

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This practice ramped up in June, when raw [br]sewage leaked into the water system in Minsk

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leaving half of the state's capital [br]without access to clean water.

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A full glass of shit!

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The august 9th election took [br]place within a context of

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growing discontent and popular mobilization.

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And so when Lukashenko [br]inexplicably ended up with 80%

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of the votes, people were [br]ready to take to the streets.

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Demonstrations erupted in 33 cities across the [br]country, with over 50 000 people taking part,

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many building barricades and clashing [br]with the OMAN - an elite branch of

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the security forces tasked with riot suppression.

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Lukashenko responded by [br]attempting to block the internet.

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Hey what the fuck!?

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This strategy backfired.

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Not only did it bring more people out [br]to the streets to see what was going on,

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but activists soon began spreading [br]information about how to use VPNs

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and encrypted messaging applications to [br]bypass state sensors, opening up channels

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of information and communication that many [br]residents had never had access to before.

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In response to the latest escalation of violence,

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an online messaging channel with more than 2 [br]million subscribers published a list of names,

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birthdays and addresses of more [br]than 1 000 police officers.

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In the weeks since the election [br]momentum has continued to grow.

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Despite the regime conducting mass arrests, [br]torture, and disappearances, weekly demonstrations

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of more than a hundred thousand people have [br]become a recurring feature, with throngs of

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protesters waving the old red and white flag of [br]the former Belarus National Republic, which has

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long served as a symbol of opposition first to [br]the Soviet Union, and later to Lukashenko's rule.

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Ultimately the fate of Lukashenko's [br]regime largely rests on Vladimir Putin.

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The Russian President has promised Lukashenko that [br]he would dispatch additional police if needed,

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and recently provided his [br]government with a $1.5 billion loan.

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However, Putin apparently distrusts his Belarusian

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counterpart, and wants to avoid adding an [br]anti-Russian dimension to these protests.

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So it remains to be seen what sort of [br]moves he will make in the coming weeks.

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To learn more about the situation in Belarus,

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I recently caught up with "Maria", [br]an anarchist based in Minsk.

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Hey Maria, how's it going?

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Well I'm at home today, uh because I have some [br]some job for tomorrow, so I can't be detained.

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Bosses hate when you get detained [br]as part of a national uprising.

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Uhhhh.. yeah.

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What was life like in Belarus under the [br]Lukashenko regime before these latest protests?

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The problem with Belarus is that [br]it's a relatively new country,

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that only appeared after the [br]collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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And for three years after that collapse it used [br]to be a parliamentary republic, and in 1994

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that was actually the first elections that were

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claimed to be democratic by the [br]west and all the other countries.

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So they were acknowledged.

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After the collapse of the Soviet Union there was a [br]lot of economical issues. Lukashenko was promising

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to put it all under control and to [br]combine, let's say, the best Soviet

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practices with the adaptations to [br]the new world. This is how he won.

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Year by year, he started to strengthen [br]his authority in the country.

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So he changed the constitution.

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He abolished the limit on the number of [br]terms that one person could be a president.

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So for the moment it's his sixth term. [br]So he ran for these elections as well,

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and allegedly he won it, but of course [br]nobody believes in the elections.

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I think in the last four elections, [br]people either didn't vote

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or they would understand that most of [br]the time the elections are falsified.

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But i think the biggest problem with this society

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before this year was that it was actually a little [br]bit like a unwritten social contract, so to say.

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Like Lukashenko said "okay, you can live [br]your lives. You can survive somehow.

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I'm going to grant you basic social services, [br]if you're not going to deal with politics."

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Could you describe what the state [br]security services look like in

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Belarus? What sorts of tactics have [br]they been using against protesters?

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There is KGB, which is the special service, [br]like the national security service or something.

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And it retains the name from the Soviet Union.

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So the KGB actually deals with how - [br]it has, of course, it has different

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departments. Like some of the investigation and [br]some of the political police. Basically they say

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that there is always a person from the KGB [br]that has control over every state-run business

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or university or school, or of course [br]general businesses and even NGOs.

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So basically, there's always one person [br]who is associated with the structure.

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And whenever you do something wrong, [br]they could potentially talk to you.

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Or like, they just identify that [br]they're there, they're watching,

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and you're going to have bigger [br]problems if you continue.

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So it's not like people are getting grabbed [br]in the streets and put behind KGB prison.

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It's not like that. It's [br]more like soft repression.

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It's more like showing people that [br]they are controlled and surveilled,

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so either they threaten you with the [br]fact that you're going to lose your job.

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If you're a student they say your [br]parents are going to lose their job,

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and you're going to lose [br]the place at the university.

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So they find a way to threaten you, and [br]i think it works well for many people.

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For the bigger population the repression is [br]not there until they come close to politics.

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You should understand that this is not USSR.

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Like people are not afraid all [br]the time, it's not like that.

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But it's only because people don't care about [br]politics, and they just live their lives.

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They get their salaries, and they go to [br]entertainment centers to to have leisure time.

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This is what Lukashenko wants them to do. And [br]basically as soon as you become more active

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or show political initiatives you're [br]going to have these conversations

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with the authorities - like with the services.

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What is the composition of the uprising in [br]Belarus and how is the movement organized?

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I've been in a political movement for 15 years [br]now, and I have seen all the brutality of the

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police, and the repression, and the falsification [br]of elections, and so on, for a long time.

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And suddenly this year, many people started seeing [br]it. Although it's been there for ages, you know?

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So people started protesting actually [br]two months before the election,

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but of course these protests were quite [br]small and not so many people were detained.

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And actually you should understand that [br]many people started protesting for the

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first time in their life this year. And [br]we don't have any kind of protest culture.

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And the protest is kind of self-organized, [br]because the protest does not have any politicians

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who are leading them. Who are standing in [br]front of the crowd and talking to them.

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Of course people are coordinated by some [br]telegram channels, but it doesn't mean that they

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have to follow what these channels are suggesting.

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As long as these channels are suggesting something [br]that people like to do, they are successful.

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But at the same time, the [br]process is so spontaneous,

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it's so so self-organized, [br]that you cannot really plan.

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Like you come to a protest [br]with one type of leaflets,

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but you understand that you should [br]have taken a molotov, you know?

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Neighbors have started to talk to each [br]other. They have started to organize

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small parties in the yard. And I think this [br]is something very important in terms of the

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atomization of them, of the population in [br]general. The people never did it before.

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And people started to coordinate that they would [br]go together from one quarter to the protest.

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So they formed protest crowds, [br]and they marched together from the

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outskirts to the center, which [br]has never happened before.

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How are anarchists in the country involved in [br]the protests? And where do you see things headed?

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We all knew that Lukashenko will not step down so [br]easily, but we didn't expect the protests to go

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so massive, and to go so different [br]from what we experienced before.

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And I think what anarchists, and I personally [br]are experiencing at the moment is that

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it's a little bit of an euphoria. [br]Because it looks like there are a

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lot of practices of self-organization [br]that have worked and have emerged.

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I'm sure Lukashenko will not leave

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soon, because most protesters [br]decided to take a peaceful form only.

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And i think the goal at the moment is try to [br]use the potential that the process offers,

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and use the space that opens up and try to create [br]the structures or to attract people who have not

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been active before. To attract them to the ideas [br]of anarchism. To identify potential allies, maybe.

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To work more with the neighborhood committees,

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or try to teach people how to facilitate [br]meetings or take decisions horizontally.

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So basically, try to use our competencies [br]that only anarchists could provide

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in order to spread the ideas of anarchism. [br]Not the ideas, but the practices.

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Thanks Maria.

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We've now reached the end of [br]this episode of System Fail.

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Over the course of the Belarusian uprising,

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thousands of people have [br]been detained and arrested.

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Anarchists and anti-fascists [br]are facing serious repression,

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with several comrades facing the [br]prospect of long prison sentences.

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To find out how you can support them,

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check out the Belarus Anarchist [br]Black Cross at abc-belarus.org.

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