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In reply to the discussion: Scientists, angry after being told to be quiet, are planning a march on Washington [View all]Texin
(2,851 posts)Actually, I think dissidents and protesters are now in serious jeopardy of being seized as threats to homeland security/enemy combatants, etc. and sent to Guantanamo for indefinite incarceration.
I've never seen a dictator, whether he's from a banana republic, a Soviet communist, a German Nazi or an Italian fascist, a Middle Eastern potentate not have dissenters or the royal "opponents" thrown into jails without due process (if they're lucky) or shot down like a fleeing convicted felon in a prison break.
The fact that this cretin has - just 3 days in - imposed gag orders on not just these EPA scientists, but others in federal agencies (what's next - the CDC for fuck's sake!??), means he's already started to rule like Putin. We're all fucked as shit. Not just Americans, but the entire planet and its population human and otherwise. Christ on a crutch. What the fuck have we done, allowed to be done?