Posted on 07/17/2020 11:06:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Militarized federal agents wearing camouflaged outfits took to the streets of Portland, Oregon on Friday in unmarked vans, grabbing and detaining protesters while unleashing tear gas in what state Governor Kate Brown described as a blatant abuse of power.
The Democratic governor of Oregon said President Donald Trump was seeking confrontation as a way of winning political points while also trying to distract citizens from his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Oregon has seen a surge in COVID-19 cases recently, while a number of other states across the US have also reported significant rises in infections.
Browns spokesman, Charles Boyle, said that detaining people in this manner is extraordinarily concerning and a violation of their civil liberties and constitutional rights.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) echoed the sentiments of Browns office. Usually when we see people in unmarked cars forcibly grab someone off the street we call it kidnapping, said Jann Carson, interim executive director of the ACLU. The actions of the militarized federal officers are flat-out unconstitutional and will not go unanswered.
Oregon Mayor Ted Wheeler joined the chorus of disapproval, demanding Trump recall the federal agents he deployed.
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We either have the Roberts’ Courts or we don’t.
But in the middle of protest season, I saw an unmarked car arrive, three soldier type guys get out and pick up a woman from the protesters - zoned in on her immediately. Never spoke - just put her in an unmarked car while her friends demanded they identify themselves. Their uniforms were masked to obscure who they were with.
Posse Comitatus is generally not thought to be binding on the marines - of which President Trump is the Commander in Chief. I think we have crossed a legal threshold and the reason we aren't seeing more "fallout" over it is that Trump is limiting his own conduct. Not sure about the antifa designation, not sure if it's unannounced or on the griddle. There's a senate resolution here:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-resolution/279
Roberts needs to get out in front of this and decide.
Transcript of Attorney General Barr’s Remarks on China Policy at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
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Arrest and charge the ACLU with racketeering, and while you are at it pick up the basement twins of
the SPLC
i would guess this was the call of the agents in charge, not micromanaging by Trump
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Agree. Fits their narrative just a little too perfectly.
Funny that the Germans are concerned about rounding people up to question them.
Not sure if it's connected to Barr's Operation Legend, which was named after four-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot and killed while he slept early in his bed in Kansas City. They were supposed to go to K.C. first. I believe Homeland Security is running the agents In Portland. Acting Director Chad Wolf told Portland's Mayor the agents will be staying there.
Chuckle.
And what does the ACLU have to say about unconstitutional lockdown diktats, forced mask wearing, arrests of people for merely leaving their homes or going to the beach and whole range of unconstitutional acts by power mad Dem governors and mayors?
I think Homeland Security agents are picking these people up, taking them to the courthouse, and questioning them. They're probably trying to gather info on their operations. Once you get them separated from the rest of the group, they usually turn weak-kneed.
The Germans are annoyed because we have not put them in gas chambers. Lol.
I am for socialism, disarmament and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is of course the goal.It might work best to let Roger Nash Baldwin speak for the organization that he founded.
If this is real... IF...
I assume these are suspects identified from riots.
Joke post?
The Deep State FBI is more likely to be part of the Antifa insurrection than work against them.
This crackdown on Antifa is being done by Homeland Security. Thank God for that.
ROFL!!!
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