Propaganda switches off people’s knowledge about the world.
“ICE detains people without warrants! This is illegal and unprecedented!”
We’ve all seen about a trillion police shows where representatives of every possible enforcement agency constantly arrest people without warrants. The police observe somebody committing a crime. Do they stop and send for a warrant while the suspect escapes? Of course, not.
“ICE agents mask their appearance! This is illegal and unprecedented!”
Plainclothes police mask their appearance. Undercover officers change their look. It’s completely legal for police to lie to suspects. We know all this. But it says on TV that this is unprecedented and illegal, and that erases everything we’ve known until now.
“Nobody is obligated to step out of their vehicle if stopped by law enforcement!”
Dude, do you drive? Have you ever been stopped? Or observed anybody being stopped? Have you troubled yourself to find out what you are supposed to be doing in this situation? If you managed to be a driver for a few years, I assume you figured it out.
Repeating these propagandistic inventions is dangerous because people end up believing them and put themselves in danger unnecessarily. Don’t attack officers. Don’t try to flee if you are getting detained. Even if you are completely innocent, becoming belligerent and trying to escape is not the way to go about it.
The people on TV who are peddling these lies aren’t putting themselves at risk. They put you at risk because that generates stories and they make money from the stories. They are selling your risk for profit. Have you heard of risk society? Externalizing risk and privatizing the profit is one of its top strategies. Some people play this game very intelligently at the expense of those who don’t know there is a game.
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