‘Tesla Takedown’ protesters are planning a global day of action on March 29, and things might get ugly

The organizers “Tesla Taketed” promised the largest day in global action this week, and encouraged thousands to protest outside Tesla showrooms, confrontation, and even ship stations to object peace to the role of Elon Musk in reducing government spending.

With Tesla’s protests spread, as well as a violent reaction. Activists who hold signs are mixed with disintegrated saboteurs who throw molotov cocktails. On social media, and in Washington, discrimination fades quickly.

President Donald Trump called the attacks on Tesla “local terrorism” and threatened to send the “terrorist thugs” to the prisons in El Salvador. US Prosecutor Bam Bondi pledged to trial “Those who are behind the scenes to coordinate and finance these crimes”, although the evidence indicates that the attacks were carried out by the “only perpetrators”. Musk’s decision was fueled on charges of at least one peaceful protester of “crimes” on X a public speech equivalent to protest with sabotage and sabotage with terrorism.

If the government or enforcement begins to treat all anti -Tesla acts, criminal demonstrators may find themselves facing severe consequences for extremists.

“Terrorism is a problematic concept of law enforcement because by virtue of its definition is different from the other violence by its political nature,” Mike Germain, a former special agent for the Federal Investigation Office in the Program of Freedom and National Security at the Brennan Center. “For this reason, we saw anti -terrorism measures often lead to problematic results targeting civil rights for people who participate in the first amendment activity, instead of people who commit violence.”

The demonstrators preached the removal of Tesla continuously in the gatherings and their website. The declared goal of the movement is not to cause physical harm to Tesla or Musk, but to encourage people to sell Teslas, sell their shares, and stop buying the new Teslaas.

“The reason for this [Musk] He is in the position in which he is because of his wealth, and we feel that if we are able to continue to lead the price of the Tesla share, we will hit him in the place that is interested in, “Natasha Purdum, an organization in New Jersey, TECHCRUNCH told him.

Musk is the richest person in the world in a large part of it because of his store from Tesla. It owns approximately 13 % of the company, which is estimated at about 829 billion dollars today, making the Musk share valuable about 107.8 billion dollars. This wealth allowed the Musk spending $ 44 billion to buy Twitter, which is the main platform it uses to communicate with its 219 million followers. Musk also decreased in his own money to donate more than $ 260 million to America, which helped Trump elected elections.

As a person who spent 16 years as a special worker for the Federal Investigation Office focusing on local terrorism, the German says he will not be surprised by seeing the hand of the local police in a glove with terrorist working halls – such as those formed by the FBI – to monitor Tesla protests. According to the public prosecutor’s instructions, the FBI does not require a realistic basis for suspicion of terrorism to start a physical monitoring, which includes taking pictures of people, cars and licensing panels, publishing infiltrators to infiltrate a group, accessing private databases, and more.

“It is also important to understand that law enforcement in the United States is primarily aimed at protecting the property of the wealthy,” said the German. “Companies in the United States are politically strong and have access to elected officials and senior law enforcement officials. When their interests are challenged, especially through protest, they want to provide this as a law enforcement issue, rather than legitimate general concerns about companies’ activities.”

The FBI declined to comment on Techcrunk’s question about whether the agency was taking any special action this week.

“We will chase them”

Musk and the Trump administration intensified their discourse in the period up to March 29, when at least 213 Tesla protests around the world are determined from Colorado, Kentucky to Germany, Minnesota, France and Texas.

On Thursday, Musk appeared on a “special report” for Fox News to say that he and Trump will take care of “the pursuit … people who provide money, who pay lies and advertising.”

Trump suggested that the attacks on Tesla’s property were coordinated to intimidate musk, despite the internal assessments that find otherwise. Musk also claimed, without showing evidence, that some of the organizers of Tesla were funded by Actblue, a non -profit organization that funds progressive causes and democratic candidates.

Bondi, MP Yasmine Crocate (D-TX) of “calling for more insurgency” after Crocate said that Musk needed to be “drop” in the Tesla Takedown career last week. Crockett established this statement with calls for non -peaceful violence and demonstrations, but regardless of this, Bondi said she needed to “walk very carefully.”

The German says that this speech, too, is an old government trick to try to discredit and suppress protest movements by claiming that “a handful of violence is the result of the spread of bad ideas and radical ideas.”

Bordum, one of the organizers of Tesla, advised the demonstrators to put their welfare first. Follow if you feel insecurity, adherence to local protest systems, do not exceed, and follow the police orders, and she has a lawyer in your back pocket only in case.

“The authoritarian regimes have a long history of equality in a peaceful protest with violence,” said Stephanie Frezel, a Tesla organizer of Dallas. “The removal movement has always been Tesla and will remain immune. Their goal is to intimidate us in silence and we stand against Musk’s destructive actions – but defending freedom of expression is essential to . We will not be deterred.”