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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Prairieland_ICE_detention_center_incident
https://prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-writings/statement-by-benjamin-champagne-song/
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REOJackwagon
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/24/prairieland-texas-ice-pr">s">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/24/prairieland-texas-ice-protests-zines
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-protesters-texas-sentenced
mksu
Trump is coming for everyone who disagrees with him about anything.
ProjectDA
yep, add me to them lists. trump is a rapist and a child rapist. ICE are nazis. the whole of the GOP and some dems are traitors, amd should get the punishmentfor it. theres also an anti flock list, sooo fuck flock and palantir. finish off with a may bibi and the IDF get rounded up, along with the GOP, in some nuremberg 2.0 trials.
slowshutterspeed
If you haven’t read his statement, you should. Thanks for including the link @OP.
landofbob
Mark my words, if they republicans get in to the point where nobody can stop them, they will take all the guns. They won't take them directly, they will use the Make X illegal approach to take guns from "criminals" and the 2Aers will laugh because it isn't them... until it is.
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Whoisthisdoctorwho2000
Reminds me if when I was back in 'Nam, got shot in the neck but said "Doc , I gotta dip its hamburger night back at base and I dont wanna miss out" and doc said "say less bro, yall gtg, just chew 20 times before swallowing .... cause... you shot in the next and all"
GuitarGeorge
The good guy with a gun theory really only applies when the bad guy is in the process of shooting at people, or pointing the gun at human targets at the very least. Not really sure if it applies when you never witnessed the “bad guy” committing violent acts and their gun is holstered. I’d say this situation leans far more towards attempted murder.
BeardicPerformance
The guy shot someone trying to murder someone by shooting them in the back while they fled. 100% justified action but the murderous bitch was a cop so obviously the good guy is going to jail.
Feralkyn
His statement is POWERFUL
Shewy92
"I don’t hate Trump. I don’t hate Nazis."
Yea, I didn't bother reading the rest.
CrisprCAS
God forbid we do what the 2A nuts say the Founders intended and try to use our gun rights to stop tyranny.
Trunkmonkay
Do you honestly expect the tyrant to just go "ok yea that's my b you can have a freebie" or do you expect them to be a tyrant? Tyranny has never ended with one guy and a gun, and America didn't throw off it's English tyrants with one guy and a gun. The whole nation had to get involved.
Farfel8088
What did you expect? When the colonists opened fire on British regulars at the battles of Lexington and Concord, did George III just shrug and say they were just expressing their legitimate point of view? No matter the rightness of the cause, once you engage the establishment with violence the establishment will retaliate and escalate. I'm not saying never do it, but don't expect to do it without sacrifice.
LurkingWasBetter
The 2A nuts LIKE the current version of tryanny.
ATastyCorpsesicle
They have a veeery skewed idea of what counts as "tyranny"
rletterly
ICE is tyranny
thekadeshi
It’s actually very straightforward: Tyranny is what they call it whenever they aren’t in power. Full stop
CrisprCAS
It's people who look or act differently from them. Unless they're rich.
ATastyCorpsesicle
Oh, no, I imagine people like Clarence Thomas might "outlive their usefulness" if certain things happen.
StarmineRendezvous
It'll never work with 1 random guy every few months at best. It only works when tens of thousands or millions show up armed.
Goldensands
BrdCdn
Americans culturally are always looking or waiting for someone else to do the hard shit for them. It ain't happening. If what is going on already can't fill your streets in rage on a daily basis then I have no other conclusion that most Americans simply don't give a fuck. They like to complain about it, but won't take an ounce of risk for anyone but themselves. You all are bootlicking your way to fascism with no end in sight. Complaining online does nothing.
ElroydIsGone
I mean, they tried it once, and they didn't only have, like, militias, but fully grown armies, with generals, and whole states, and they even banded together to one big Confederacy, because the evil tyranny wanted to take away their slaves, but not even that was enough.
Makes you wonder about average Joe and his friends vs police and national guard in military grade APCs.
freshthrowaway1138
It will be even worse today. Heck, just look at the k:d ratios of recent conflicts. In Afghanistan against people who had a lifetime of combat experience and had a variety of heavy weapons in their home territory, the US military killed 20-40 militia/AQ for each US soldier. Here in the US against fat Americans who have zero cultural history of war or deprivation? It will be a knife through butter.
Which is why violence should be an "all else has failed" situation.
Deathcameawienering
Couple hundred would do. They are in small groups and badly coordinated, a bigger number of organized, motivated folks would be sufficient
whereismymind86
That’s the point of a union, the Pinkertons can’t kill all of us. It was easy to make an example of an individual, but not the whole.
Same principle applies to civil disobedience and protest
Goldensands
They don't want to kill all of us. They want to enslave us. They have.
SquashDemon
This was a small group of people. Would have gone a lot differently if there were a lot more of them, yes. But it wasn't just one guy.
clonedeeznuts
If you weren't aware of the asterisk in that statement, I'm sorry.
Detacheddavid
Ahh, the asterisk. The marker of the most important caveats, fine-print exceptions or "subject to change" clauses.
clonedeeznuts
Also included in almost EVERY conservative claim but rarely actually visible
Lomish
that's why we need judges with guns to be leaniant on them!
Nightcaste
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Fuckimgurcunts
And gavels with guns so you hit the desk and get a second bang!
GanjalfTheClear
They'll get pardoned once the orange idiot is out. They're just political prisoners right now really.
pandro
You're assuming the orange idiot leaves. It is entirely possible for him to hole up in the White House and refuse to leave, with the Secret Service defending him because that's their job. When Richard Nixon was impeached he COULD have chosen to do this. He didn't, because despite stupidity, he cared about this country.
Redshadow09
we can only hope
MarcusAWolf
lol, they absolutely will NOT get a pardon from any Democrat who wants to look 'tough on crime'
Subsound
This kind of thinking is exactly why I have never shown up to protests when encouraged by people online...and to do more aggressive actions.
If anything happens to you at the protests and youre literally on your own. Someone else will take care of it later, not their responsibility to even think about. Legal costs, tearing their family apart, if there are injuries...
There is no support besides the social services in your state that are being dismantled.
m4uboy
The National Lawyer's Guild exists for the express purpose of educating protestors on their rights, and defending them if/when they get arrested.
Subsound
Exactly "Not my fucking problem and you are on your own besides what social safety nets exist that are being steadily dismantled." Its like being back in middle school when a kid pushes you to fight back against a bully and runs as soon as the teacher shows up.
Swordguy
Then die on your knees.
Subsound
If you want to foght back, go ahead.
Be sure to get a good lawyer before you do anything.
shorey66
And that's why your shitty country is already finished.
Subsound
I think were all finished when even health care professionals are indifferent to suffering just because its in another country.
shorey66
I'm not indifferent to the suffering just pointing out that the US is completely fucked
Subsound
Pointing out someone is getting fucked against their will and laughing is indifference to their suffering.
NomadUniverse
He shot at local police attending after the protest turned violent and hit a police officer, not an ICE agent, in the neck nearly killing him.
If you expect that to go unpunished there is something severely wrong with you.
Shurenai
Punishment? Yes. LIFE IN PRISON? Absolutely fucking not. Even serial graping killers rarely get life. Life in prison is an insane overreach.
NomadUniverse
It's attempted murder of a peace officer. And just because others dont receive appropriate punishment it doesnt mean everyone should not.
BeardicPerformance
The police officer was trying to murder people running away. The shooter was 100% justified.
NomadUniverse
And waht evidence do you have of that aside from one statement made by one of the defendants?
REOJackwagon
"When a police officer arrived on the scene and drew his weapon, one of the activists fired an AR-15 from the woods, hitting the officer in the shoulder"
BeardicPerformance
And what evidence do you have that it wasn’t justified? Just your gut feeling that cops are always good guys?
NomadUniverse
A statement made by the actual shooter no less.
NomadUniverse
A statement in which I've never seen someone play victim and protest innocence so hard mind you. Read the wiki article about what actually happened instead of supporting criminals making heavily biased statements to cover their own asses and garner support.
DefinitelyaHumanNotanAlien
Did someone finally shoot an ICE agent? 🤔
cuzitsthere
A cop responding to vandalism at an ICE facility, actually.... Close enough, imo, but could be closer.
boredgame
He shot that cop in the neck. The guy had nothing to do with ICE at all. Wtf is wrong with you?
This is the exact stupid rhetoric that gets innocent lives destroyed. If you chose your politics over people, and at the cost of hurting innocents, how the hell are you any different than ICE?
NomadUniverse
People will say whatever fits their narrative and dont believe in being correct if they feel they're on the "right side" of the argument.
Simple fact is he shot at local police attending after the protest turned violent, nearly killing one of them. That's just not right no matter how you spin it but most people are too afraid to take the side of police, especially in this cop-hating echo chamber.
akafluffy
The cop was drawing down on unarmed protesters, that's the "protest turned violent" you're talking about. He earned that bullet, it's a shame he lived.
Feralkyn
Had nothing to do with it, but was whipping his gun out and taking aim at a running person's back. The shooter (a marine reservist) shot the cop to prevent the cop from shooting yet another unarmed protestor. Fuck it, justified.
The Dept of Justice is literally PUBLISHING that it's an "antifa cell" fwiw. Shitty propaganda
Feralkyn
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/prairieland-ice-dhs-protest-conspiracy-prison-judge-texas-immigration-sentence/ here's another take
Feralkyn
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-protesters-texas-sentenced and they sentenced just protestors to 50+ years.
NairouTryyshokk
When i see a bully shoving around someone, and then the victim finally swings back, i dont cry for the bully, im only sad i dodnt swing first. These mother fuckers love saying shit like "live by the sword, die by the sword" well, he got what was comming. Dont point your gun at someone you dont fully intend to kill.
LokilairTTV
Cops aren't innocent.
Do you have a stronger argument?
cuzitsthere
The difference is which side I dig my foxhole on. Why do you think it'll matter what specific breed of state sanctioned terrorist gets shot? ICE is here so we toss out the ACAB flags? I promise you I have plenty enough hate to fit both and more...
m4uboy
an innocent cop? LOLOLOLOL
ElroydIsGone
Yeah, one shot him in the neck, but he survived. As far as I understood, however, some others were just protesting and got sentenced for "antifa terrorism" or whatever the respective kangaroo court laws were.
awkungen42
Unfortunate. All Ice agents deserve a dirt nap.
Yuri909
He was not ICE. Just local beat cop.
Maverickaura
From what I've read thar beat cop was drawing on and about to shoot a fleeing unarmed protestor. The protestor that shot the cop did so in the unarmed protesters defense. You are allowed to shoot cops acting illegally. It is your right to do so. Or it was. When we had rights.
newsguycraigevans
They were dressed in black so they were obviously gang members. - shitty corrupt judge
override367
The fucking protestors got FIFTY YEARS IN PRISON?!?!?!?
Great so rather than protest, is the court trying to say that they should just roll up and open fire into crowds of ICE right? Might as well if you get LIFE IN PRISON FOR JUST FUCKING PROTESTING
Fuck this country
AtmaDarkwolf
Slowly, very slowly, the American people realize the real solution is at hand, and is exactly what has always been within grasp, often sold at corner stores and supermarkets. Roll up with enough firepower that nobody can deny, and change the rules. Use their own weapons against them.
wadatahmydamie
Including ones who were told to go home, so they did.
This is the worst of a *long* line of cases from this administration, and they finally got a bent judge to accept it.
override367
thankfully theyll almost certainly win on appeal in *checks* oh its Texas nope
wadatahmydamie
Maybe. This is pretty flagrant. Conservative judges are a dime a dozen, but hardline MAGA troll judges are considerably rarer. Even in Texas
override367
One of the people got 30 years and *at the scene* was told to go home and did, htey literally did nothing, all they did was distribute pamphlets, its fucking wild
wadatahmydamie
Yeah. I’m not optimistic, mind you. I’m just saying that it takes a special kind of mind to put in the decade + of college to get a JD, rise through the ranks at a law firm to get the support to become a judge, and then completely ignore the law once you’re there
SoDark
yeah someone else mentioned that putting out heavy sentences like this is really foolish cause it means that going harder wont really get you a heavier sentence 50 years or 500 years mean the same thing after all