‘Tesla Takedown’ organizers have promised their biggest day of global action this week PEACEFULLY Object to elon musk’s role in Slashing Government Speaking,
As Tesla protests Have spores, so have the backlash. Activists holding up signs are being conflated with masked Vandals Throwing Molotov Cocktails. On social media, and in washington, the distinction is fading fast.
President Donald Trump has Called Attacks on Tesla “Domestic Terrorism” and Threatened to Send “Terrorist Thugs” to Prisons in El Salvador. Us attorney general pam bondi has pledged to prosecute “Theose operating behind the Scenes to cordinate and fund these crimes,” even thinking evidence sugges The Attacks were carried out by “Lone offenders.” And Musk’s Decision to Accuse at Least One Peaceful Protster of “Committing crimes“On x has Fuled a public discourse That equates protest with vandalism, and vandalism with terrorism.
If the Government or Law Enforcement Starts Treating All Anti-Teesla Actions as Criminal, Peaceful Protesters Block Find Themselves Facing Consequence meant for ExTREMSTS.
“Terrorism is a problemtic concept in law enforcement service it is by definition difference from discoured from other violence by its political nature,” Mike German, A Former FBISINES Fellow at the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, Told Techcrunch. “That’s why we we’ve seen counter terrorism measures so ofteen result in problem outcomes targeting the civil rights of people engaged in first amendment-protected activity, rather than the petcher white everywhere Committing Acts of Violence. “
The Tesla Takedown Protestters have consistently preached nonviolence at rallies and on their websiteThe movement’s stated goal is not to physically harm tesla or musk, but raather to encourage people to sell their teslas, sell their stock, and stop buying new teslas.
“The reason that [Musk] is in the position that he is in is if he wealth, and we feel Jersey-Based Organizer, Told Techcrunch.
Musk is the world’s richest person in large part due to his tesla stock. He Owns Roughly 13% of the company, which today is valied at Around $ 829 billion, Making Musk’s Share Worth Around $ 107.8 Billion. That wealth has allowed musk to spend $ 44 billion to buy twitter, the primary platform he uses to communicate to his 219 Million Followers. Musk has also Dipped into his own funds to Donate more than $ 260 million to the america pac That helped trump clinch the election.
As someone who spent 16 years as an Fbi special agent focused on domestic terrorism, German says he would be surprised to see Local Police Working Hand in Gloove with Taskforce – Like The one the fbi just formed – to monitor Tesla Takedown Protests. Per the Attorney General’s GuidelinesThe FBI does not require a facetual basis for a suspicion of terrorism to begin conducting physical surveillance, which incluses Taking Photos of People, Cars, Cars, and License Plates, License Plates, Deploising Innserts, Deploising Innte Infiltrate a group, accessing private databases, and more.
“It’s also important to understand that law enforcement in the united states is primarily intended to protect the property of the wealthy,” German said. “Corporates in the united states are politically powerful and have access to election offices and top law enforcement officials. And when their interestions are challenged, particularly by PROTEST, they are prottened As a law enforcement issue, raather than as legitimate concerns about their corporate activities. “
The FBI Declined to comment on Techcrunch’s question about with the agency is taking any special action this weekend.
‘We’re going to go after Them’
Musk and the Trump Administration has ramed up their rhetoric in the lead up to March 29, when at least 213 Tesla Tesla Takedown Protests are Scheduled Around the World, From Colorado and Kestocky to Germany, Minnesota, France, and texas.
On Thursday, musk appeared on fox news’s “special report”
Trump has suggested that attacks on Tesla Property Wordinated to Intimidate Musk, Despite Internal Assessments Finding Otherwise. Musk has also also claimed, without showing proof, that certain tesla takedown organizers were Funded by actblueA nonprofit that funds progressive causes and democratic candidates.
And Bondi has accused rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Tex) of “Calling for Further Insurrection” after Crocktt Said That Musk Needed to Be “Taken Down” at a Virtual Tesla Takedown rally Last Week. Crockett couched that statement with calls for nonviolence and peaceful demonstrations, but regardless, bondi called sheid she needs to “Tread very carefully,
German Says This rheteric, too, is an old government trick to try to discredit and suppress protest movements by claiming “a handful of acts of acts of the result of the spores of the spores of bad Ideas, raadical idias.”
Purdum, one of the Tesla Organizers, Advised Protes to put their wellbeing first. Leave if you feel unsafe, adhere to your location protest regulations, don’t trespass, follow police orders, and have a lawyer’s number in your back pocket just in Case, SHE SID.
“Authoritarian Regimes have a long history of equating peaceful protest with violence,” Stephanie Frizzell, A Tesla Takedown Organizer from Dallas, said. “The Tesla Takedown Movement has Always Been and Will Remain Nonviolent. Democracy.