\n\nNow, as a political tactic, underdiscussed precedents regarding punching Richard Spencer in the face include the SPLC\u2019s approach of defunding disliked rightist groups by filing claims in friendly courts seeking damages for targeted violence that their ideological programs inspired in their audience.
\nAnd that Fred \u201cGod Hates Fags\u201d Phelps was a civil rights lawyer who used the Westboro Baptist Church as a profit-generator by seeking damages for attempts to suppress their unpopular expression.
\nWhich, using the court system to shake down a deeper-pocketed NGO with antifa sympathies, literally a police-enforced imperative to be nice to white nationalists, you\u2019ve got the question of who else in the ecosystem says \u201cDamn the courts, we\u2019ll stir up violence against who we want\u201d \u2013 becoming suppressable in normie-friendly idiom \u2013 and who demoralizingly splits solidarity and adds WN-positivity to their HR sessions and social media policy.
\nCourse you need a martyr to even start that questline
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And that\u2019s just civil justice, as far as criminal goes, with Sessions at AG and loyalty from the cops who make up the Deep City everywhere\u2026 Before you even get to antiterrorism or whatever Palmer/COINTELPRO black bag shit they dream up, you\u2019ve got the concept of criminal conspiracy, that if you\u2019re working together with people towards some criminal end - and the police were making riot charges at the inauguration, observers were surprised, say they haven\u2019t seen that in a while - you can individually be charged and punished for the act of any other.
Hell, RICO, that came out of the RFK-Mafia wars specifically as a way for an attorney general to dig out people embedded in their communities - respected \u201cclean hands\u201d types, hooked up with the local political machine - and send them away based on what the disposable street muscle did. NOW v. Scheidler establishes that political causes aren\u2019t exempt; you could maybe hang a predicate on let\u2019s see, extortion, kidnapping, arson, hopefully not murder. Ooh, obstruction of justice, witness tampering - people already leaning on each other not to identify Black Bloc-ers, that\u2019s got potential. You wouldn\u2019t even need punches, or for the underlying investigation to be any good, for that one.
Now, the Kennedys had a kind of Nixon-goes-to-China thing, the Mob couldn\u2019t well pull their trick of squalling out in the name of Catholic Democrats. The Tension meter has a few clicks yet before Jeff Sessions unlocks the ability to jail community organizers for postmature antifascism.
Still the folk mythology may go that any attempt to suppress anything going under cloak of political protest will register as repression and further intensify resistance, but I assure you, there are workaday already-legitimated law-n-order countermeasures to \u201clet\u2019s publicly build a movement around punching our opponents in the head\u201d.
(The \u201cleaderless resistance\u201d thing, untouchably pristine allies hosting online target lists for lone wolves to pick from, with a \u201cpoints\u201d system to assure them people were inaudibly cheering for them, that might have potential. The eco-terrorists and anti-abortionists were running that in the \u201890s, Anders Brevik suggested it for the \u201cKnights Templar\u201d in his 2083 manifesto and I\u2019m not sure what the countermeasure is to that. That\u2019s probably when you get to counterterrorism, tho also that was back when you hosted sites off of towers in your own closet, today they\u2019d probably just lean on the hosts or something.)
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