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An ICE spokesman mentioned both "Incendiary rhetoric" and "officer safety" as reasons for delaying major urban raids yet again. They are still carrying out small-scale harassing actions in suburbs of "pick up one, scare a hundred" but are not now capable of getting away with an all-out attack on urban migrant communities. To hit us when we know they are coming and have shown we are willing and ready to fight is not their cup of tea.

The fact that people are free right now who would be in ICE (actually GEO Group) concentration camps had the raids gone on as scheduled is all the justification anyone needs for that motor pool attack in "Washington State." Direct action gets the goods, and the white supremacists and white nationalists behind Trump listen only to direct force and to economic punishment, or in other words they understand steel and gold.

Of course the Enemy retaliates against the hostages already in their dungeons, this is the standard hostage-taker's behavior. The only possible response to it is to refuse to negotiate with the hostage takers. Prison guards themselves understand this, and know damned well that if we catch one of them while on the inside absolutely NOTHING will be yielded in negotiations to get them back. They understand it, and we need to understand it too.

Even the simple home demo is fundamentally a cooercive tactic: it says "we know who you are and we know where you live" and by being a pain in the ass for the target's neighbors reduced the target's quality of life and ability to enjoy their expensive condo or oversize house. Years ago, a series of home demos against John Negroponte over his history of torture isolated him from his neighbors and made him a pariah there. Similar protests forced both Paul Wolfowitz (IMF) and Dick Knapp (landlord of the Ga Ave Wal-Mart) to sell their expensive homes and move. That cost them a lot of money and their local social connections. Lots of bank executives are now showing they don't want to suffer this way by divesting in things like the Geo Group that are known to bring protesters to executives's homes, in fact GEO Group may well turn out to be the next HLS( Huntingdon Life Sciences, a vivisector that could not even get bank accounts in most places because of SHAC).