Be prepared to help yourself or your friends and neighbors escape from unlawful kidnappings from 'agents' who refuse to provide badge numbers, names, and superior officer's contact information.
Do not trust unknown individuals posing as federal or state law enforcement.
I cannot believe we all have to have plans. Plans for protesting. Plans for escape. Plans in case they break our doors down. ICE/CBP are just like the gestapo.
Sadly, this is by design. They are a (dangerous) minority, and the only tools they have are intimidation and misinformation. We need to disrupt their dark mirror narrative, and record and call out their abuses of power.
What a great list! Sorry we need this in 2026 - feels a little like Argentina in the 50's! I love #12! I never wanted a password to lock my phone (too old, too many passwords) but I have one! How delightful it would be to refuse to give it!
Stay safe, Qasim - you & your family - and ALL OF US that remember when "America was the home of the free & land of the brave"!
A valuable tool, Qasim, especially since Noem has essentially admitted that this has become Federal control of all citizens going forward. This will be their means of determining the results of the 2026 elections. Renee Good's murder has gotten a pass. That fact sets the precedent for their future actions.
Qasim, Thank you for this helpful list. I am surprised about the advice in #12 to open your phone if stopped by police. What is your support for that? The very helpful list you linked in your recommendation to not give your name unless required by state law indicates that a minority of states are "stop and identify" states where you are compelled to do that and other states require particularized circumstances to require people to identify themselves. In those states it is counterintuitive that the police can discover my identity by requiring me to put my finger on my phone and letting them scroll through my phone
Wild that we’re back to having to circulate “how not to get disappeared by the state” checklists, but here we are. Read this, share it, and don’t let anyone tell you this is just normal politics.
I think it would be really swell if more of the chattering classes called what ICE has become what it is: a State-sanctioned domestic terror organization. It's violence is political and it's being wrought on the American people. The administration wants it to be America's IRGC as in Iran. That's the modern State-sanctioned terror organization most like what the administration wants it to be today (only "Christo" as opposed to "Islamofascist")
Qasim, Great list. Another list suggests that you write your name and contact information, such as your lawyer's phone number, on your arm with a permanent marker. The reason for including your own name is in case you are knocked out.
I was once telling a public defender friend about a conversation I started with a police officer at a demonstration. My friend told me never to speak to law enforcement at a demonstration unless I needed medical attention. She said that you never know what might be interpreted as provocation and might cause a violent reaction. I didn't take her seriously. Now I do.
Thank you for the timely advice. Fortunately, the police in Las Vegas have been very protective of protestors. Having said that, they do NOT tolerate any sort of behavior they deem offensive.
I am not a lawyer:
Be prepared to help yourself or your friends and neighbors escape from unlawful kidnappings from 'agents' who refuse to provide badge numbers, names, and superior officer's contact information.
Do not trust unknown individuals posing as federal or state law enforcement.
I cannot believe we all have to have plans. Plans for protesting. Plans for escape. Plans in case they break our doors down. ICE/CBP are just like the gestapo.
Sadly, this is by design. They are a (dangerous) minority, and the only tools they have are intimidation and misinformation. We need to disrupt their dark mirror narrative, and record and call out their abuses of power.
What a great list! Sorry we need this in 2026 - feels a little like Argentina in the 50's! I love #12! I never wanted a password to lock my phone (too old, too many passwords) but I have one! How delightful it would be to refuse to give it!
Stay safe, Qasim - you & your family - and ALL OF US that remember when "America was the home of the free & land of the brave"!
A valuable tool, Qasim, especially since Noem has essentially admitted that this has become Federal control of all citizens going forward. This will be their means of determining the results of the 2026 elections. Renee Good's murder has gotten a pass. That fact sets the precedent for their future actions.
When you analyze power, always ask:
What structure allows this person to cause this much harm?
How do we dismantle that structure?
I recently wrote some thoughts around these ideas too…
—-Johan
Great list Qasim Thank you 🙏🏻 ✌🏻
Qasim, Thank you for this helpful list. I am surprised about the advice in #12 to open your phone if stopped by police. What is your support for that? The very helpful list you linked in your recommendation to not give your name unless required by state law indicates that a minority of states are "stop and identify" states where you are compelled to do that and other states require particularized circumstances to require people to identify themselves. In those states it is counterintuitive that the police can discover my identity by requiring me to put my finger on my phone and letting them scroll through my phone
Wild that we’re back to having to circulate “how not to get disappeared by the state” checklists, but here we are. Read this, share it, and don’t let anyone tell you this is just normal politics.
I think it would be really swell if more of the chattering classes called what ICE has become what it is: a State-sanctioned domestic terror organization. It's violence is political and it's being wrought on the American people. The administration wants it to be America's IRGC as in Iran. That's the modern State-sanctioned terror organization most like what the administration wants it to be today (only "Christo" as opposed to "Islamofascist")
Thank you for these rules/protections. I wish you and your family safety and peace as well.
And at this point anyone who defends ICE gets a block and/or delete on my page. Anyone who defends ICE is nothing more than a violent insurrectionist.
Qasim, Great list. Another list suggests that you write your name and contact information, such as your lawyer's phone number, on your arm with a permanent marker. The reason for including your own name is in case you are knocked out.
14. The first one to suggest violence or breaking the law is the cop.
That was obvious in the 1960s, it was obvious during The Great Gretchen Wittmer Kidnap Fiasco, it was true during the BLM protests, it's true now.
EDIT: also, watch out for stacks of bricks and the like, that just happen to be left out conveniently near a protest.
I was once telling a public defender friend about a conversation I started with a police officer at a demonstration. My friend told me never to speak to law enforcement at a demonstration unless I needed medical attention. She said that you never know what might be interpreted as provocation and might cause a violent reaction. I didn't take her seriously. Now I do.
Thank you for sharing this
Thank you for the timely advice. Fortunately, the police in Las Vegas have been very protective of protestors. Having said that, they do NOT tolerate any sort of behavior they deem offensive.
Archiving this. SADLY