What to do when the Trumpstapo comes to your town.
1. Don't panic. One way they achieve their goals is to instill fear in the populace. Don't let them.
2. Lose the Die Hard fantasies. Yeah, there'd be a certain satisfaction if someone put these em-effers in the hospital, but that's what Trump wants.
3. Remember that these are a tiny handful of people who have to get by in a city that mostly hates them. They are still people. They're not ghostly wraiths that disappear after snatching someone. They still have to eat, sleep, and poop. They have faces and names and families. They drive cars with recognizable makes, models, and colors, and so far, license plates. (Not recommending this exactly, but those cars would get a whole lot more recognizable if somebody tagged 'em.)
4. There are way more of us than there are of them. We can, if we we are determined, turn nearly unlimited resources against them. Imagine you're one of these guys, knowing that if you lower your mask, even for a second, somewhere there are several of us patiently waiting with a long telephoto lens to snap a recognizable picture of you. Imagine when you eat or sleep there are workers who might be passing information on your whereabouts. Speaking of eating, do you feel a little queasy after that last meal? Oh, it's probably nothing, but still.
5. Work with your local politicians. Especially push them to pass the word on to the local PD that these people are felons and anyone who aids them is setting themselves up for a whole array of conspiracy charges.
6. Go about in groups. The Trumpstapos know very well that an encounter with ten or twenty people is a whole different animal than one with one or two. There will be multiple corroborating eyewitness accounts and quite likely multiple videos. Again, not recommending violence, but thugs are less likely to go up against a group as opposed to picking on stragglers.
7. Decide what you're going to do if one of your number is taken. Decide in advance if *you* are taken, if you want your face and identity splashed all over social media and tell your friends about that. Keep pictures of your friends on your devices so you can get them out there within minutes if needed.
8. Wear an outfit that's easily recognizable from several directions. If there's an incident, it could turn out to be enormously helpful if a bunch of eyewitnesses could all remember you as "that guy in the Spider-man shirt." Might not be a bad idea to have a plan to ditch the shirt if it comes to that.
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