So here we are after less than 11 months
and we now have US citizens grabbed off the streets, court orders openly disobeyed, media organizations/individuals targeted for censorship, they are making gross attacks on voting rights and elections, killing people on an accusation without providing due process or evidence, agencies gutted, phony prosecutions of political enemies, foreign aid for food and medicine gutted resulting in deaths in the many thousands, food benefits in the US under attack, health care in the US under attack, ending staffing requirements at nursing homes which will allow a return to the horrors of another time, students denied entry because of political opinions, decimation of science based decision making at FDA and HHS, attacks on reproductive health care, attacks on education, attacks on libraries, attacks on nurses and other professions, open extortion of companies/institutions and individuals, termination of efforts regarding climate change, implementation of de facto allowance for discrimination in hiring, suspension of protections for refugees from war torn countries, suspension of immigration from dozens of countries, attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, destruction of historic buildings without prior review, troops on the streets demanding ID/papers from people, goon squads grabbing women and children off the street, decimation of our historic support for our allies, complete alignment of our foreign policy to suit the desires of Russia, trade wars and open extortion for the personal enrichment of the leader of the US and the list goes on with many more things.
So here we are indeed and now comes the news that they now want to compile a listing of organizations that are "anti-American" and we know how broad that definition will be. We also know they don't just want to label organizations that oppose them as "anti-American" but they want to compile lists of people to apply that label to as well. We can be sure that they will be looking at things like reviewing your social media etc. on an ever larger scale than they already do. Back to the Red Scare days and worse.
We see what they are having our military do that's out in the open like the boat attacks. We see what the ICE-American Gestapo and CBP goon squads are doing on the streets of our cities and towns. What do you think they're having the CIA do around the world that we don't see?
Remember back in the Spring when many of us here began warning about how extreme and how fast they would move? Remember when we said vulnerable people should consider their and their loved ones safety and protection and perhaps relocate if possible? They have already announced recently that passports for US citizens may be restricted due to "security" concerns etc.
Some claimed we were being too extreme in our warnings. Others kept reassuring us that "they (the fascists) wouldn't dare" or "couldn't" do this or that because of the courts etc. Certainly we have to continue to fight in the courts, protest and fight in elections but also remember that a court decision or a law doesn't mean that fascists won't do something. It only means they've been told not to. Those orders will only prevent an action if the fascists comply with the order.
We see the videos of US citizens and others dragged out of cars, sometimes windows smashed in, by the goon squads of ICE-American Gestapo and CBP. That horrifying and forever scarring event happened to them despite court orders about conduct etc. The event still happened to them and even if they are able to sue later remember that the scar remains. We all know what's not "supposed to happen" because of laws and the courts and we also know that despite that these horrendous events happen to people anyway at the hands of these fascist goons.
So here we are indeed. Back in the Spring they hadn't done half of what they accelerated to as we went along. But many of us knew that acceleration was coming and that there is no depth to which these fascists will not go. There is no cruelty or vindictiveness that is too far for them. Where will we be in another 11 months? In the land of the "free".
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