...demonstrators in Portland, Oregon, protesting racism and police brutality earlier in July, were tear-gassed, beaten, seized off the street by unidentified, masked federal agents in camouflage and fatigues, hustled into unmarked vans and detained for hours. The agents were reported to work with the US Marshals Special Operations Group and Bortac, the Border Patrol Tactical Unit.
demonstrators in Portland, Oregon, protesting racism and police brutality earlier in July, were tear-gassed, beaten, seized off the street by unidentified, masked federal agents in camouflage and fatigues, hustled into unmarked vans and detained for hours. The agents were reported to work with the US Marshals Special Operations Group and Bortac, the Border Patrol Tactical Unit.
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... The Esquire article refers to the Portland arrests as a rehearsal; it’s one in a series of rehearsals. First DC, then Portland. Coming soon to a city near you.
[This is precisely what the Army wife said Lafayette Park was prelude to.]
These attacks are about exerting power, bullying dissenters, intimidating Americans into giving up their First Amendment protections, their Constitutional rights. Robert Evans, a Portland-based freelance journalist and conflict reporter, told the New York Times, “Portland is being used as a bellwether to see what this administration can get away with. And also what works to quell protest.”
How much clearer must it be? There are those who would like to see the establishment of an authoritarian state that despise minorities and immigrants, hates women and the poor, and in mid-pandemic, values money and profit over human life. This prospect intensifies the anxiety of many Americans who fear a stolen election, widespread voter suppression, further affronts to the rule of law.
... Portland mayor Ted Wheeler called the violence “an attack on our democracy.”
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/20/trump-shock-troops-portland-doomed
demonstrators in Portland, Oregon, protesting racism and police brutality earlier in July, were tear-gassed, beaten, seized off the street by unidentified, masked federal agents in camouflage and fatigues, hustled into unmarked vans and detained for hours. The agents were reported to work with the US Marshals Special Operations Group and Bortac, the Border Patrol Tactical Unit.
...
... The Esquire article refers to the Portland arrests as a rehearsal; it’s one in a series of rehearsals. First DC, then Portland. Coming soon to a city near you.
[This is precisely what the Army wife said Lafayette Park was prelude to.]
These attacks are about exerting power, bullying dissenters, intimidating Americans into giving up their First Amendment protections, their Constitutional rights. Robert Evans, a Portland-based freelance journalist and conflict reporter, told the New York Times, “Portland is being used as a bellwether to see what this administration can get away with. And also what works to quell protest.”
How much clearer must it be? There are those who would like to see the establishment of an authoritarian state that despise minorities and immigrants, hates women and the poor, and in mid-pandemic, values money and profit over human life. This prospect intensifies the anxiety of many Americans who fear a stolen election, widespread voter suppression, further affronts to the rule of law.
... Portland mayor Ted Wheeler called the violence “an attack on our democracy.”
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/20/trump-shock-troops-portland-doomed
