So... disappearings happening in Portland.

Former DHS Head Tom Ridge isn't happy.

Audio at the link.

A member of the US Senate says that civilians expressing their First Amendment rights can be shot by Trump's goon squad.

About a month and a half ago, Tommy Boy published an op-ed calling for the military to be sent in to stop the protests. Think we'll have to wait a month and a half before some protester gets filled with lead?

Eventually it will happen. People are already resisting and knocking the goons over. Eventually they will use force to not be taken, and then the next result for the federal forces will be to shoot because they do not outnumber the protestors in any meaningful way. I noticed in the footage we have seen they target an easy person to kidnap and only are taking one at a time. You are in a minivan with 4 armed goons, how many people can you take?

The shooting will start, white protestors will get killed, and then people will demand something get done. The real problem is what will happen when the cops refuse to do anything when the state or city orders them to. After that who knows what the result will be.

SPOG wants some of what Portland is having.

On a positive note, some DHS employees aren't happy.

Long Twitter thread by a lawyer on some serious problems with what's been happening in Portland.

Now, let's see if this gets to the courts and how they handle it.

That is where it needs to go. However, if they do not keep records of arrests and why it happened it will be hard to prove what actually happened in court. We see the video and the guys doing it in some cases, but who are they, what department are they from, and what actually happened can easily be disputed without records of the incident. This is why cops have logs and other eecords they have to keep for the purposes of defending their arrests in court. If DHS and other departments are acting like this without records it is time for congress to act upon reigning them in, and that is going to wait until after the election because pelosi and company will be "investigating" until then.

Trump may be immune to the law, but the states could be acting on prosecuting bad actors, and the house could be demanding public hearings on the matter now. What is that noise I hear?

This is fine and good.

@Paladin is overjoyed

They’ve been spotted in Michigan.

Well fuck.

Should I start checking in every few hours? I'm not protesting, but I am delivering food, and they've already made it clear they can't tell the difference.

Where are all the Mercans who stockpile guns in case the government turns tyrannical???

This is your time to shine!!

Oh yeah?

Saw a brief clip from Fake News last night where Chad Wolf said comparisons to the Gestapo were offensive.

If the shoe fits, Bubba.

So, let's see...

The tinfoil-right was warning us about "Obama brownshirts", and now we have Trump brownshirts instead.
And the Obama-haters are loving it.

Doing everything they can to spread the plague to old-folks homes is death panels.

So, the secret code is, every right-wing conspiracy was what they always wanted to do to us.

So, up next, FEMA death camps, but they'll be DHS death camps.

Sharia courts, except they'll be Southern Baptist courts where they'll punish blacks for existing, white "race-traitors", and the LGBT community.
Cuz Jesus loves them.

And raping kids under a pizzeria?
The Catholic, Jehovah's witness, and Mormon churches already have that covered.
Except no pizzeria.
They don't need the front business, they just do it.
They've got child rape down to a science and an art.

A neighbor of mine recently had to go to assisted living with Alzheimer's. His wife says 59 people (I assume staff and patients) have tested positive. Fuck.

eta :moved to Covid thread

Did you mean to put this in the COVID thread?

And, I am sorry to hear about your neighbor and the people in the assisted living center.

Please don’t.

So now Donnie-boy has shifted from Chicago and Detroit to Chicago and Albuquerque.

Skip to 1:50 if the time stamp didn't work.

"We are having to go out and proactively arrest individuals..." - Acting Director of Homeland Security Chad Wolf

I had no idea we had Precogs now...

The thread he quotes is well worth reading.

Philadelphia's Top Prosecutor Is Prepared to Arrest Federal Agents

Preparing to protect yourself against violence with purely defensive equipment is a sign of violence now apparently:



Isn't it weird how if they were targeting people for carrying guns @Paladin and others would be in here calling it an outrage, but they are still oh so silent when it comes to the reality of people trying to protect themselves against a violent government.

This seems like a good time to repost this