Remember that post re federal troops "kidnapping" citizens in Portland? It's true.

[nolabear]

If we let that monster get re-elected America is over.

Link to tweet

[Tech]

1. That needs to stop.

[TomSlick]

2. Unidentified federal agents of some sort but NOT troops.

These are not Army personnel.

[nolabear]

13. What should I call them?

[gratuitous]

16. A hostile invading force

We haven't asked for federal troops, but Trump has imposed them on us anyway. Gov. Brown has stated publicly that Trump is using Portland to win votes in Iowa and Ohio. Trump isn't going to win Oregon, so invading Portland isn't going to cost him anything in this state, and he hopes it will win him votes elsewhere.

[2naSalit]

17. +1

[nolabear]

24. Good answer.

[Volaris]

21. Domestic Terrorists.

[nolabear]

25. Also good answer.

[pwb]

31. Blackwater?

.

[TomSlick]

39. I suggest "Geheime Staatspolizei."

The word "Troops" is properly used for Army soldiers. It is sometimes used to include all military service members. It does not include any secret police run by Barr.

[Blecht]

40. Trubagestapo

Trump-Barr Geheime Staatspolizei

[TomSlick]

42. Clever.

[Demsrule86]

37. Brown shirts? Gestapo perhaps?

[FM123]

3. Wow. Is this really America anymore?!?

[Ilsa]

4. State-sponsored disappearances. I suppose they will

Keep them at a soccer or football stadium before they let the trumpers use them for target practice.

Who will be prosecuted for this?

Why shouldn't a protestor defend themselves with force when they are about to be kidnapped? Anyone can dress up like one of these goons.

[Volaris]

22. Because if you bear arms against the government and you're NOT a right wing loon,

You're likley to be shot.

[wnylib]

23. They are heavily armed, I think.

It would be legitimate to fight back, but they would probably get beaten up or shot.

Unless the kidnapped persons had armed friends with them. Pepper spray maybe.

Wonder if there would be any way to follow the thugs and identify them. Or maybe get some good face shots of them to post online so people who recognize them could ID them. Out them to the public.

[tulipsandroses]

5. I remember a video posted of a protester being taken in an unmarked car - don't remember which state

But I remember the other protesters sounding desperate and saying " where are you taking her and why is it this car unmarked"

[nolabear]

14. That was what I was replying to. Portland OR

People were speculating it was street theater. I didn’t know myself. But apparently no. It’s actually happening.

[Laelth]

6. Disturbing. k&r for visibility. n/t

-Laelth

[shanti]

7. Taking directions from

Pooty-poot, is he?

[liberalmuse]

8. This is horrifying!

Jesus Christ.

[Jim__]

9. No agency or identifcation badges grabbing people off the street?

Why don't local authorities arrest them? If they have no agency or identification who says it's the federal government?

[Nevilledog]

12. That's my thought. They have no jurisdiction that I can tell.

[Cirque du So-What]

10. Are they invoking some obscure provision of the so-called Patriot Act?

that suspends habeas corpus by calling protest terrorism?

[Progressive Jones]

11. No badges and no ID makes them fair game. Fight back. nt

[Efilroft Sul]

15. I agree. This is an existential threat.

[Captain Zero]

28. Need to at least paintball those vehicles.

to identify them later.

[Progressive Jones]

41. Get license plate numbers. These are rented vehicles. nt

[icymist]

18. Practicing for 'disappearances'.

Are we one step away from 'death squads'? They already put somebody in the hospital so these unidentified Federal 'officers' have total disregard for proper procedure of the law.

[SiliconValley_Dem]

19. we are very close to there. and Trump doesn't really care about polls

because he and his ghouls are goimg to try to take the whole thing.

je is the antichrist, the great tribulation and Armageddon soon to follow

[sarchasm]

20. Eric Prince...

...and his brown shirts have arrived?

[Maru Kitteh]

26. On loan from Russia with love?

[RandiFan1290]

29. Some of our embedded trolls claimed it was "street theater"

[Tipperary]

30. Someone says this on twitter?

Hoo boy.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

33. More specifically, Oregon Public Broadcasting said it on Twitter. To promote the article they

produced about it. You can read it here: https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters/

Here's an excerpt:

Federal law enforcement officers have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland and detain protesters since at least July 14. Personal accounts and multiple videos posted online show the officers driving up to people, detaining individuals with no explanation of why they are being arrested, and driving off.

The tactic appears to be another escalation in federal force deployed on Portland city streets, as federal officials and President Donald Trump have said they plan to “quell” nightly protests outside the federal courthouse and Multnomah County Justice Center that have lasted for more than six weeks.

Federal officers have charged at least 13 people with crimes related to the protests so far, while others have been arrested and released, including Pettibone. They also left one demonstrator hospitalized with skull fractures after shooting him in the face with so-called “less lethal” munitions July 11.

(snip)

But interviews conducted by OPB show officers are also detaining people on Portland streets who aren’t near federal property, nor is it clear that all of the people being arrested have engaged in criminal activity. Demonstrators like O’Shea and Pettibone said they think they were targeted by federal officers for simply wearing black clothing in the area of the demonstration.

[Tipperary]

34. Thanks!

I appreciate the info.

[superpatriotman]

32. Why aren't the police handling this

Rounding them up and arresting them

[MineralMan]

35. They're DHS!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213764433

[nolabear]

36. Yep. The story has blown up overnight.

There are docs somewhere in the Twitter storm showing causes for their arrests and they pretty much are all “graffiti.”

[calimary]

38. Gonna be an "ask" about this when my Indivisible group gets together this weekend.