Pace the ACLU, these are not "special-forces style" personnel. They're like a SWAT team; their closest military analog is probably the 75th Rangers, but this is a police rather than a military function. The Border Patrol (which is providing the "BOR-" here) also has a search and rescue unit called BORSTAR in their Special Operations command, which presumably is not being deployed since neither searching nor rescuing is needed in this case.
If you're going to fight the Federal government, you have to expect to face this sort of thing. Eventually you have to expect to face the actual Rangers and Special Forces, in fact; escalation into actual insurrection is only going to loosen the limits on the Federales in terms of what kind of force they can bring to bear. I don't know that Chicago is ready for what they're asking for by encouraging this level of resistance -- the mayor issuing a statement against the Feds, and the Chicago Police Department refusing aid to Federales under attack. Maybe they think the voting public will be turned off by it and hand their party back some power to put the brakes on it, but that's more than a year and a half away in the best case.
Fighting the Feds can be the right thing to do under extreme circumstances; the Declaration of Independence sets permanent terms for when it is right or even morally mandatory to resist any government. No American government, deriving their legitimacy entirely from the revolution successfully fought under those terms, can deny the validity of the Declaration's arguments.
Thus, at least sometimes such resistance is moral and proper; and to some degree it remains a matter of individual judgment when those terms are satisfied. I won't say, therefore, that such resistance is categorically wrong; but you'd better be sure.
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They are sure all right, just insane.
Richard Fernandez says they’re not crazy, but in a sort of cult.
https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1975142038128804004?s=46
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