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(2,187 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
chia
(2,244 posts)-Laelth
irisblue
(33,055 posts)Source--
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53504151
The whole world is watching.
snip--"They arrived wearing yellow, some carrying sunflowers, and chanting: "Feds stay clear. Moms are here."
more at article
RVN VET71
(2,700 posts)Peaceful protesters, mothers, for christ's sake!, getting gassed and beaten by storm fucking troopers. I hope Trump-Barr's goons sleep well because there's an accounting coming for the absolute anti-American evil they are doing in Portland -- and it won't be pretty for them.
DHS Cheese-dick Wulf claims, hey, dey iss all mit da "politzei" insignia on Der uniforms. But there are no name tags and there is no evidence that these lowlife goons are actual Federal employees or in the pay of a legal-mob-boss like Betsy's brother Eric (Blackwater chieftain and head thug who tried to set up secret, treasonous back-channel between Trump and their true leader, Putin on Seychelle Islands.)
But Barr-Trump have been outed and the rest of the world know what they are and what they are doing. Putin smiles, Xi laughs, Kim must be having laughing apoplexy -- and NATO prepares to build a wall keeping us out. I hope we can survive until November, but even if we do and Biden is able to secure his victory, our national nightmare will just be beginning. The rebuild on the wreck of Trump is going to be long and painful. (Also, of course, without the Dems taking the House and the Senate, there will be no rebuild, just an extension of the stalemate between the wealthy elite fascists and the 99%.)
magicarpet
(14,213 posts)irisblue
(33,055 posts)mitch96
(13,944 posts)I was just watching a program on the History channel about the begining of the American revolution.. The first people killed were in Boston.
British troops were guarding a "federal building" when protestors arrived taunting and throwing snow balls at the brits. The commander said FIRE. Five colonists died in the
Boston Massacre. Sound familiar? History repeating itself.. Boston tea party and the battle of Lexington and Concord to follow..
I just hope some trigger happy Blackwater Federal contractor does not let go..
4 dead in Ohio?
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pazzyanne
(6,560 posts)Lasher
(27,673 posts)raging moderate
(4,317 posts)Two universities almost simultaneously attacked by armed mobs dressed as militia, who killed several people.
pazzyanne
(6,560 posts)That was a scary time, but what is happening now is truly terrifying.
wnylib
(21,775 posts)We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drummin'
Four dead in Ohio.
irisblue
(33,055 posts)ALBliberal
(2,358 posts)ALBliberal
(2,358 posts)demmiblue
(36,914 posts)SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)young_at_heart
(3,774 posts)Even the rednecks might find this obscene!
demmiblue
(36,914 posts)triron
(22,030 posts)Demsrule86
(68,799 posts)I have done so.
Blue Owl
(50,575 posts)n/t
Canoe52
(2,949 posts)iluvtennis
(19,907 posts)Cha
(298,035 posts)Stuart G
(38,458 posts)triron
(22,030 posts)Precisely
Captain Zero
(6,863 posts)He says he can get away with it because he is a Star.
Roc2020
(1,619 posts)pure fear in her eyes. wow America
Stuart G
(38,458 posts)Lasher
(27,673 posts)That is not an American soldier.
irisblue
(33,055 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,871 posts)from Donald Trumps Shock Troopers.. I am surprised he isn't making them all wear Storm Trooper fits.. /revision/latest?cb=20160407220950
LudwigPastorius
(9,257 posts)(Yeah, that is /s.)
If Trump wins reelection, I'm convinced we'll see camps inside of a year...and I'm not talking about summer church camps.
Ilsa
(61,712 posts)Confederate generals statues and was burning a Confederate flag!
mikelgb
(6,021 posts)I see no bravery, no bravery, no bravery in his eyes anymore....only sadness [and fear]
aggiesal
(8,957 posts)McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)As a short, (naturally) blonde female, I have never worried about cops getting rough with me. I am no threat to them at all. But apparently the great big babies of ICE find me really scary...
If they are going after blondes now, no one is safe! This should be a centerpiece in the next Lincoln Project ad and aim it at suburban soccer moms.
Lonestarblue
(10,159 posts)This is how Trump has ordered his nameless, faceless secret police to Treat suburban moms. Moms who are not rioters, who are not anarchists, who are not lootersyet they are being treated like all those things. Trump says hes for law and order. Then why is he breaking the law and creating nothing but chaos and disorder?
Richard D
(8,818 posts)So basically, there is nothing stopping some sick psycho from dressing up in camo, kidnapping a woman, throwing her in a van, and driving off with her.
Ilsa
(61,712 posts)on a counterattack leaving a federal agent dead so they can dispense with protests and declare martial law.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)Ya know, all those guys that were ready and armed to defend us from a tyrannical gubberment. Those guys that showed up when the feds tried to collect rent from a cattle rancher.
misanthrope
(7,436 posts)wide and far
c-rational
(2,600 posts)irisblue
(33,055 posts)Title-Portland Attorney Says Feds Did Not Read Her Rights, Identify Themselves
BY AILA SLISCO ON 7/23/20 AT 12:01 AM EDT
snip--"
An Oregon lawyer says she was arrested by federal agents who refused to identify themselves or read her her rights during protests in Portland on Tuesday.
Attorney Jennifer Kristiansen, 37, was arrested after participating in a protest outside a federal courthouse in Portland, as city officials continued to demand the agents leave the area.
Kristiansen was at the protest as part of the "Wall of Moms," a group of mothers who are attempting to act as a human shield blocking officers from assaulting protesters participating in ongoing Black Lives Matter demonstrations against police brutality and racial injustice."
snip--" After being arrested, Kristiansen was criminally charged with assaulting an agent and failing to obey their orders, while also being issued an order to not return to the protest area. She pled not guilty to the charges, saying that an assault did take place but insisting she was the victim rather than the perpetrator."
more at article.
FTR, Newsweek has alot of junk popups on their webpages
flying_wahini
(6,700 posts)irisblue
(33,055 posts)AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)the fascists will win.
Resist.
louis-t
(23,313 posts)TomSlick
(11,136 posts)I feel like I should be on those streets.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)This is a very powerful image
Buckeyeblue
(5,505 posts)I didn't realize DHS had policing authority. I thought they were mostly an intelligence organization the focused on monitoring suspected terrorists in our country.
Demsrule86
(68,799 posts)I hear they will be charged with terrorism. Big jail time.
Buckeyeblue
(5,505 posts)Demsrule86
(68,799 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,505 posts)Defending yourself against bogus charges can bankrupt you. Seems like governors could come up with a creative way to combat them.
Sloumeau
(2,657 posts)HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)If you look at what is being shown on Fox and the right's media outlets compared to CNN and MSNBC, you come away with a VERY different view of what's happening.
Fox viewers only see the rioters rioting - even if the rioters photos and video are faked - they never see the actual stuff that the Feds are doing.
irisblue
(33,055 posts)JFC man, I talk to ppl in England and New Zealand near daily Man
They see us. They see us.
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)(unless of course they are American citizens living there).
They can see us all they want but it doesn't matter - the American voter is the only one it matters to and American voters are the only ones who can do something about it.
Problem is, a lot of Americans don't see the protest BRoll the same way - the right's media machine portrays the protestors as lawless animals, and that narrative is believed.