Read on Twitter
"Personal accounts and multiple videos posted online show [federal law enforcement] officers driving up to people, detaining individuals with no explanation of why they are being arrested, and driving off."
This is nearly 'disappearing' people. https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters/
This is nearly 'disappearing' people. https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters/
The only missing ingredient is people never returning. That's where we are now.
Unidentified officers. Unmarked vehicles. No records of arrest. No paperwork. No citations.
We are in danger of becoming a country whose government simply makes its own people disappear.
Unidentified officers. Unmarked vehicles. No records of arrest. No paperwork. No citations.
We are in danger of becoming a country whose government simply makes its own people disappear.
If anyone tells you there's no difference between the parties, that both sides are just as bad, examine who empowers this behavior and who confronts it.
Then ask yourself this. Who benefits if you are discouraged? Who benefits if you disengage? Who benefits if we give up?
Then ask yourself this. Who benefits if you are discouraged? Who benefits if you disengage? Who benefits if we give up?
Decisions are made by those who show up. Now, more than ever, we MUST show up if we want the nightmare scenario to end.
Show up.
#FlushTheTurdNovember3rd
#FlipTheSenate & #HoldTheHouse
It's the only chance we have.
Never give up, never surrender.
Show up.
#FlushTheTurdNovember3rd
#FlipTheSenate & #HoldTheHouse
It's the only chance we have.
Never give up, never surrender.
UpdateKen Cuccinelli (acting deputy secretary of Homeland Security) in an interview with @NPR:
"[T]his is a posture we intend to continue not just in Portland but in any of the facilities that we're responsible for around the country."
They're telling us they won't stop.
In fact, they're going to expand.
"I fully expect that as long as people continue to be violent and to destroy property that we will attempt to identify those folks. We will pick them up in front of the courthouse. If we spot them elsewhere, we will pick them up elsewhere."
"I fully expect that as long as people continue to be violent and to destroy property that we will attempt to identify those folks. We will pick them up in front of the courthouse. If we spot them elsewhere, we will pick them up elsewhere."
Federal Protective Services provide security at Federal buildings. What are they doing off federal property?
"The legal justification is that they are people suspected of damaging or attacking federal personnel or property. [...] That's the basis for jurisdiction."
"The legal justification is that they are people suspected of damaging or attacking federal personnel or property. [...] That's the basis for jurisdiction."
Note the attempt at scaremongering and painting protest as criminal & violent.
"We're talking only about violent rioters. We're not talking about actual protesters. We're not seeking to interfere at all with anyone peacefully expressing themselves - period, full stop."
"We're talking only about violent rioters. We're not talking about actual protesters. We're not seeking to interfere at all with anyone peacefully expressing themselves - period, full stop."
Read the transcripts from the interview for yourself. Then read that article in the top tweet again and ask yourself this:
Who do they answer to?
What else are they going to do?
And where will they go next?
#PortlandKidnappings
#SecretPolice
#PoliceState https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892393079/dhs-official-on-reports-of-federal-officers-detaining-protesters-in-portland-ore
Who do they answer to?
What else are they going to do?
And where will they go next?
#PortlandKidnappings
#SecretPolice
#PoliceState https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892393079/dhs-official-on-reports-of-federal-officers-detaining-protesters-in-portland-ore
