Federal crackdowns in Portland, Oregon have become an increasingly controversial situation. Last week, a DHS memo discussed needs if this is to become normal. There are worrying signs that this is being considered.
Though President Trump made no announcement one way or another on future crackdowns, he did praise what is going on in Portland, saying they “grab a lot of people and jail the leaders. These are anarchists.” But is this a one-off incident?
Trump rattled off a list of cities that could be next for the feds, including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, and Oakland. Local officials are already bristling at this, and as with Portland, the administration would face a backlash if they try to spread this.
In Portland, federal law enforcement from the DHS have been roaming the city in camouflage and unmarked rented vehicles, dragging people off the street and holding them in detention. This has been condemned by the mayor, the governor, multiple congressmen, and the state’s attorney general.
In bigger cities the dubious legality of these police actions would be all the more heavily opposed. Suggestions that the cities are run by “liberal Democrats,” whether it is an actual part of the selection process or not, also risks turning this into a bigger political crisis.
American populace actually voted representatives bot local state and federal office for just such an internal police force, all because identity and fools playing politics ignored this newest police states formation.
The Executive Brnch has been building such a force for last 25 years, and Congress appropriated funding without giving a damn about program.
Never designed for casez of invasion but only for suppredsion of domestic uprisings.
Any onr outhere who has founfd even a single case of Police actual getting torn down and reorganized?
Trump has good political instincts — for his own goals. But in this case calamitous to nation.
He got these democrats — got them where it hurts. Democrats always supported federalizing everything, it suited their donors and their ideology. It was Republican states that cautioned against encroachments of federal tentacles into states. Republicans protestations were mainly theater.
But now, Democrats should protect state authority against unlawful federal intrusion — but they are mostly hot air. Impotent in the face of powerful money interests.
How are we as a nation served? Divisions are getting deeper and wider. Wasting money on imaginary empire fashioned after British naval power ideas, forgetting the possibility that angering powers that can sink it all -/ is not a good idea. But it is GOOD money for some. And less and less money at home — endangering needlessly our way of life. Destroyed by financial speculation and by military and imperial saturation of globalist institutions. Costly bribing and coercion along the way.
Homeland Security’s primary function, no matter original bs about terrorism. But for putting in place a singular coordinated. System to monitor domestic internal monitoring and enwith an overarching of power over all intelligence agencies.
It was but an extension of the Patriot Act. Which was originally a test run of acceptance of State Powers to define patriotism and place a loyalty bottom for future expansions over civil control.
clinton era saw vast acceptance of enlarging of federal programs to modernizing. non Federal Police departments and integrating them into being a part of Feral Intrrnal Security , a program that hidden by Iraq War bloodlust Bush/Cheney expanded upon by hiring of US civil policemen as contractorswith traing by US and Israeli civil contol military into helping US military police. Conquered Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq.
At end of tors those contractors .ostly returned to vcivil departments and with homeland sevurity aiding in reorganizing and militarizing them.
mayors and State police.became a part of internal security apparatus for use as Fusion Centers, monitoring and using local police in listing no- fly and an even more dangerous to civil liberties, The Secret “Suspicious Persons and activity Act, an act where anyone? Especially officious clucks and their supervisors in any gov bureaucracy occupation are encouraged to turn in, in Act is stated as “Their Duty ” any and all persons , collect as much info on persons and turn them into police who by law investigate, send info to Fusion Centers who then notify Homeland Security.
NAMES ON LIST ARE ONLY AVAILABLE TO HOMELAND SECURITY AND BACK DOWN LADDER.
Our. Elected Representativesl, lower courts and police departments gleefully cheered programs due to piles of extra funding by Feds even to having upper echelon police being trainrd for domestic control by US military and civilian Israeli contractors, money in metro cashboxs.
trump alone not responsible for the new Praetorian Guard Gestapo, we in US.been to blinded by flag wavers who never looked behing dogmas and demigogues motives.
And liberal or conservatives are as guilty as sin for allowing this police state to grow.
also check out “Legal State Malitias who one will find are much like Germanys brown shirt uber patriots.
Portland, Seattle, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Oakland, Minneapolis…why not let the people of these cities, who voted in their Democrat, lefty leaders, reap what they have sown?