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Far-Right grifter + Qanon conspiracy theorist Michael Meyer, who despite not being a veteran leads "Veterans on Patrol," is now targeting @NoMoreDeaths. Meyer has previously attacked water tanks belonging to humanitarian groups, claiming they are part of Soros backed conspiracy.
In 2018, Meyer received national attention for claiming that an abandoned homeless encampment was actually a former cartel child-sex trafficking site. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/07/09/arizona-vigilante-michael-meyer-veterans-patrol-arrested-amid-pizzagate-style-conspiracy">https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch...
Despite "locking the gates to the private property and declaring that they were engaged in a “standoff” with authorities," Meyer was not arrested and was talked down the stand-off by the authorities. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/06/12/oath-keepers-boss-stewart-rhodes-goes-all-conspiracy-theory-too-wild-even-alex-jones">https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch...
Weeks later, Meyer was arrested for the second time that month, after threatening local law enforcement who were planning to shut down a homeless encampment Meyer ran on private property. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/07/23/veterans-patrol-leader-michael-meyer-issues-warning-law-enforcement-day-after-being">https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch...
In 2019, Meyer faced "two felony counts of third-degree burglary as well as misdemeanor counts of theft and criminal damage" for destroying water tanks belonging to humanitarian relief organizations. https://tucson.com/news/local/pedophilia-conspiracist-arrested-for-stealing-damaging-water-tanks-meant-for-migrants/article_0fa9bf80-a32d-5bf3-914c-a19d172c60a0.html">https://tucson.com/news/loca...
Now Meyer is setting his sights on @NoMoreDeaths, who is facing State repression after a military style-raid on their humanitarian aid-station. https://nomoredeaths.org/military-style-raid-border-patrol-detains-30-people-receiving-care-at-humanitarian-aid-station/">https://nomoredeaths.org/military-...
According to @NoMoreDeaths, "US Border Patrol raided No More Deaths’ humanitarian aid station, detaining over thirty people who were receiving medical care, food, water, and shelter from the 100+ degree heat. In a massive show of force, Border Patrol, along with BORTAC..."
BORTAC was one of the special units along with ICE, DHS, and CBP, who were send by the Trump administration to put down the ongoing #BlackLivesMatter 
https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> rebellion in #Portland. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/27/trump-border-patrol-troops-portland-bortac">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...
In 2017, No More Deaths was targeted by a similar raid, resulting in the trial of several volunteers. One of those targeted, Scott Warren, fought two trails, and was acquitted both times. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/21/arizona-activist-scott-warren-acquitted-charges-helping-migrants-cross-border/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/20...
The targeting of @NoMoreDeaths was no accident - it was a political move that coincided with the Trump administration& #39;s attacks on migrants and directly followed a damning report from NMDs on Customs and Border Patrol destroying humanitarian aid + beyond. http://www.thedisappearedreport.org/ ">https://www.thedisappearedreport.org/">...
Right before the most current raid, "the group shared documents regarding [the 2017 raid] three years ago, which showed the Border Patrol’s national union clamoring for a crackdown on No More Deaths." https://theintercept.com/2020/08/02/border-patrol-raid-arizona-no-more-deaths/">https://theintercept.com/2020/08/0...
Repression of No More Deaths is not something out of the ordinary, the US government has long targeted and put under surveillance anarchist, anti-authoritarian, and abolish ICE groups in the region. https://itsgoingdown.org/fbi-wants-cops-to-think-ice-protesters-are-lethal-threat/">https://itsgoingdown.org/fbi-wants...
Grifters like Meyer are jumping on an opportunity to make money off online donations - but they are also playing an important role in supporting the State as an auxiliary, paramilitary force. https://itsgoingdown.org/based-reserve-army-how-the-right-changing-strategy/">https://itsgoingdown.org/based-res...
The deployment of BORTAC + other law enforcement agencies against @NoMoreDeaths + protesters in #Portland has the same logic - to smash off the streets those who would challenge the regime - using the upmost brutality if necessary. This has nothing to do with "stopping violence."
In fact, these law enforcement agencies not only utilize massive amounts of violence in their day to day operations, but fundamentally exist to uphold and protect systemic institutions that fundamentally need violence to operate.
But as popular support of groups like No More Deaths and for the ongoing rebellion in #Portland shows - there is growing support for movements that affirm human solidarity against the brutality of white supremacy, the State, and the exploitation of capital.
This is why conspiracy theories like Qanon are so important. They promote disinformation within wider society, while also helping to label movements from below as tied to elites at the top ironically while in the service of ruling class interests. https://itsgoingdown.org/george-soros-globalism-far-right-explains-revolt/">https://itsgoingdown.org/george-so...
This is also why idiots and grifters like Meyer get arrested repeatedly but never see real jail time while volunteers at @NoMoreDeaths risk years behind bars for saving lives. Far-Right violence is in-line with the regime and its own violence; it does not destabilize the State.
On the other hand, movements that utilize tactics at the disposal of the entire proletariat: essentially anything that generalizes mass disruption and collective + individual refusal - are painted as "terrorism" - because they have the power to stop the reproduction of society.
"Not all violence is equal. There is the violence that is permitted. This is the violence that comes from above, that arrives in police bullets + drone strikes. There is the violence that is encouraged, that comes from below and is aimed at those even more below it..."
Then, there is the & #39;violence& #39; that is exceptional. This is any collective or individual action that affirms the interests of those below in the face of those above while attempting to stop the machine. "This is the & #39;violence& #39; that can never be permitted." https://itsgoingdown.org/first-shot-anarchists-trump-new-normal/">https://itsgoingdown.org/first-sho...
