Thread by @JMichaelWaller

Mob rule: Inspiration for some of what we're seeing in America today comes from the "turbas divinas" or "divine mobs" that the Sandinistas ran in Nicaragua to intimidate, destroy, and demoralize the public into submission. They still do, 40+ years later.
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2) Central regimes deploy mobs as extradjudicial enforcers. In 2018, students protesting Nicaragua's social handout system "were attacked with sticks by government-controlled youth mobs, known as 'turbas divinas,' (divine mobs), leaving some injured." univision.com/univision-news…

3) @Univision: "Some of the Sandinista Youth ride motobikes with their faces hidden behind visored helmets, wielding metal pipes and sticks. The mobs brutally beat dozens of young people, the elderly and independent journalists covering the protest."

@Univision 4) Notice any emerging parallels? @Univision: "The [Nicaraguan] government ordered five independent TV channels that have been covering the unrest off the air. Local television station ... which was broadcasting the protests live, had its signal abruptly cut...."

@Univision 5) UN Human Rights Commission reported in 1997 how the Sandinsita "divine mobs" changed from revolutionary groups to government-sponsored political enforcers. The Canadian government saved the report. refworld.org/docid/3ae6ab2a…

@Univision 6) See above: The divine mobs "pattern of behaviour has changed: while in earlier years they would act as large, visible groups of people, today they are believed to consist of individuals who commit acts of vandalism or infiltrate demonstrations to provoke violent incidents...."

@Univision 7) "... Rather than a network of organized groups used for pressure or intimidation, they would appear to have continued mostly as small groups that infiltrate public actions with a disruptive purpose ...."