Tom Homan, being the unapologetic deportation warrior that he is, has made it clear that anyone who attempts to attack or impede ICE is going to regret it, and I think that's spectacular, but there's another problem that needs to be addressed and soon.
As my colleague Rusty Weiss noted on Friday, Tom Homan says he's making a list and checking it twice, and gonna find out who's naughty to ICE. The idea is to drag these people kicking and screaming into the light to be prosecuted and "made famous." It's a great idea because a lot of these protesters are hired hands who spend a lot of time escalating situations into violence and fomenting unrest where they can. Putting them on a list of known agitators and actually bringing down a legal hammer on them would likely do a lot to dissuade people from following the same route.
Read: Homan Vows to Expose Lefty Agitators: Reveals New Plan to 'Make Them Famous'
The issue is that ICE isn't the only party that needs protection from crazed rioters and brainwashed leftists with their Cluster B personality disorders.
When a mob is formed, intelligence levels plummet dramatically, and nuance is thrown out the window. It becomes a rabid animal driven by emotion, and that primary emotion is anger. The reason you see people in mobs act like absolute fools with little capacity for reason is that they're quite literally high on a mix of dopamine and oxytocin. It feels really, really good to be part of the mob because it activates the feel-good chemicals that our lizard brains love.
To quote myself from a previous article discussing this phenomenon:
The expression of outrage triggers the dopamine and oxytocin dispensers in your brain because the caveman locked in your nervous system needed outrage to survive. The angering sensation was there to drive you to stop from being treated unfairly around the campfire, especially when it came to food. Acting on your outrage usually results in more, thus the reward comes, and you get a "good boy" or "good girl" from that lump of flesh in your skull.
Moreover, it feels even better when people are outraged alongside you. The caveman loves getting backup and forming a like-minded community, and whenever someone tells your inner caveman he's right, you get a little bit of a high from the bonding hormone, oxytocin. Ever wonder why some people seem to lose their minds while in the middle of a rabid mob? It's because they're tripping on a natural drug.
It's a phenomenon that's been around since before we could write. William Shakespeare made something of a dark joke about it in "Julius Caesar," where the mob kills a poet named "Cinna" for basically having the same name as the guy they're hunting for, even though they know he's innocent.
The targets for a mob begin to broaden as nuance depletes with the dropping IQ levels, and soon, if you even have a resemblance to the target in any regard, you're on the menu.
Case in point, watch as the anti-ICE mob confronts a poor Cinna just for driving an SUV.
WATCH: Minneapolis leftists force man to prove he’s not an ICE agent and scolds him for renting a SUV
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While it's infuriating to watch ICE get attacked and impeded, it infuriates me more to watch the hubristic action of a mob becoming a vigilante force that believes it has the authority to go so far as to tell people what kind of car they can drive, with a very real underlying threat of comeuppance if they aren't obeyed. This man is innocent, but the mob doesn't think in terms of innocent until proven guilty. They may not even wait for proof of either. If it feels good to attack and assault, they will.
If you need proof of what I'm claiming, I can point to the entirety of the Black Lives Matter riots.
I think these people need to be stopped just as much, if not more so, than those willing to trouble ICE directly. ICE has the authority to detain those who attack them, and the means and manpower to fight back if necessary. Innocent bystanders don't.
So, I think the solution isn't more protection on the ground. That might be good in the short term, but I want to attack the disease, not the symptom.
I think if we truly want to defuse the mob, we have to make it dangerous to join one in the first place. Homan's idea is correct. The goal should be to make these people famous. They should be caught on camera, identified, and have their lives ruined.
It's not an uncommon practice nowadays. Leftists are all too happy to act like fools in the open. Let them do it. Let them be seen as intimidating, threatening, and horrible. Then let those videos go viral. Let their identities be identified. Let their workplace be exposed. Let their lives be ruined.
And let that ruination be very public, so that when someone gets the idea to run with a mob, the first thing that comes to their mind is "I don't want to wind up like the last person who did this," jobless and famously awful.
We have our Andy Ngo types who show up at these events all the time. The victims of these mobs also have cameras. Everything should be recorded for the world to see. If they want to be dangerous to innocents, then they should be prepared for the innocents to take action.
The message will be clear without having to say it directly: Don't FA, and you won't FO.
