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The latest outrage, one that should alarm every American alive, is a call from a Trump acolyte in a Trump-related newspaper. The call to action was a summons for FBI Director James Comey, to use the authority of the Bureau to act as official state police to repress Americans exercising their First Amendment right to assemble.
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Americans who are even remotely aware of exactly how the Nazis rose to power in 1930s Germany must be astonished at the rate at which the Trump is embracing Gestapo-type tactics. Whether it is compiling an enemies list consisting of government employees or demonizing different groups for rage from his racist zealots, the Trump is conducting a real-time master class in how Hitler controlled his enemies.
The latest outrage, one that should alarm every American alive, is a call from a Trump acolyte in a Trump-related newspaper. The call to action was a summons for FBI Director James Comey, to use the authority of the Bureau to act as official state police to repress Americans exercising their First Amendment right to assemble.
Although this is a seriously astonishing concept in America, this is the fascist authoritarian Trump making America great like his adopted Russian bro made the former Soviet Union great. Coupled with the not-so-stunning official revelation that Putins Russians worked alongside the Trump campaign to install Vladimirs surrogate in the White House, of course Trump is going to employ Putin tactics to suppress dissent; it is just what authoritarian tyrants do.
The newspaper in question is owned by Trumps son-in-law Jared Kushner. Kushner is the same unelected private citizen that Trump wanted the highest level security clearance for so he could play president and receive daily presidential security briefings. Kushner is already a high-level advisor to dumb Donnie, and now he is using his personal newspaper as an administration propaganda arm to portray peaceful American protestors as violent and unlawful, and to demand that the FBI director Comey employ Stasi, KGB, or Gestapo tactics to crackdown, investigate and intimidate Americans for peaceably assembling.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/12/11/trump-surrogate-calls-fbis-comey-crackdown-peaceful-protests.html
Cha
(296,889 posts)out and try that shite.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)WHERE ARE THE DEMOCRATS???????
WTF is the matter woth them..? 203 are saying something.
the rest.... MUTE
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)?b3f6a5d7692ccc373d56e40cf708e3fa67d9af9d
#NoDAPL
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)A few dozen donuts or buckets of KFC.
(Brown pants vs brown shirts --still gestapo.)
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Living while not white. Exercising first amendment rights.
Dangerous criminal.
I would ask how those badge wearing fascists sleep at night, but that would imply they have consciences and souls, which precious few police have anymore.
Aimee in OKC
(158 posts)From Dec. 5:
"Donald Trump's Gestapo-Like Police State May Be Closer Than You Think"
"In a thoroughly disturbing opinion piece in The New York Observer, Austin Bay, an adjunct professor at the University of Texas, Austin, argues that the FBI needs to crack-down on malcontents and Trump administration political opponents.
Normally, such a rabid screed so antithetical to fundamental Constitutional rights wouldnt get the time of day. But the fact that it appeared in the New York Observer makes it scary.
The paper used to be an urbane journal of the comings and goings among New York Citys chattering class. . . .
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Why the paper would suddenly veer into alt-right territory is surprising, especially given that most of its readers live in Manhattan and overwhelmingly support Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
In any event, Bay, a retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel, is a case study of why the Founding Fathers strongly opposed the militarys involvement in politics.
In the article, Bay principally calls on the FBI to conduct a detailed investigation into the violence and political thuggery that has followed in the wake of Trumps election.
Whats striking about his position? Its exactly who he thinks should be targeted.
Hes not referring to white supremacists, anti-Semitic hate groups, neo-Nazis or wack patriot groups.
And, hes not talking about the rash of Swastikas painted on African-American churches, Southern Ku Klux Klan marches, or defilement of mosques and synagogues.
Hes talking about a thorough probe of street protests against Trumps election and their possible ties to organizations demanding vote recounts.
{ snip }
He also thinks FBI Director James Comey should use elector intimidation as a justification to round up Trump political opponents.
Reports that members of the Electoral College are being harassed and threatened by angry, vicious (and likely Democratic Party) malcontents require Comeys quick and systematic attention, he writes.
Such wide-ranging investigations, he argues, will give the Bureaus integrity-challenged director
a chance to sandblast his sullied badge.
Of course, everyone should condemn violence and veiled threats. But Bay seems to think political thuggery is solely the domain of Trump opponents.
More importantly, what he fails to grasp is that peaceful public protests, vote recount demands and even lobbying members of the Electoral College are all Constitutionally protected activities. "
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http://www.moneypowergreed.com/639/donald-trump-gestapo-like-police-state/
elmac
(4,642 posts)straight from President Putin.