ICE Attacks: Protest or Stealth?

For decades the progressive playbook called for huge demonstrations to advocate for our cause, and if we’re trying to persuade sensible open minded people, sometimes that works. Even with terminally fascist idiots like ICE thugs, when you outnumber them by 10 to 1 or better they’ll probably back down. But carelessly getting up close and personal with ICE will give them way more than your “name, rank, and serial number”, as MPR News reports: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/13/ice-using-private-data-to-intimidate-observers-and-activists-advocates-say

That’s why an ICE thug in Minneapolis kept his cell phone going while he murdered a Minneapolis mother in cold blood- In real time ICE is scanning faces and license plates, searching databases, and building even bigger databases of anyone opposing their reign of terror. The scanning includes the radio spectrum too- ICE is logging phones around them and maybe conversations and data too. Meanwhile, federal contractors like tech firm Palantir are building giant databases about us to enable future repression. So if you’re documenting or protesting ICE within camera or microwave frequency range, don’t make their disgusting “work” an easier- park the car a ways away, dark hoodies are the uniform, face masks ready because ICE is a breeding ground for disease, and cell phones off and maybe in a Faraday cage too!

Was great seeing the crowd that organically gathered and chased ICE out of Lake & Lyndale in Minneapolis yesterday. but out here on the prairies we’re unlikely to have such numbers to overwhelm ICE and we can’t spare the few progressive activists we have should ICE capture them- so stealth is our best strategy. Even in progressive rich Minneapolis activists have been delivering food to ICE’s targets and offering school online so these vulnerable folks can stay home and safe from ICE. Stealth should be our first barrier against ICE, and protest a backup in case ICE breaches our stealth. Turn off the cell phone, get online through a VPN, stay home, or travel at night ’cause lazy ICE thugs like to sleep, etc…. If they don’t see us, they can’t even find us!