Seth Abramson: "This is how it starts" (the secret police kidnappings)

[icymist]

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The news from Portland is terrifying.

According to Oregon media and viral eyewitness videos, silent, unidentified armed men in unmarked cars are grabbing law-abiding citizens off the streets without explanation. Local authorities don't know who they are.

This is how it starts.

In Proof of Corruption, I wrote about how what happened in DC is just the beginning. Barr is commanding an army, per major media, of agents from 12 federal organizations who—critically—do not wear nameplates or interact with local authorities or have any clear scope of authority.

We must understand, therefore, that Portland isn't the first deployment of Barr's Army—it's the second. That's important because this deployment is even more brazen, aggressive, and illegal. If there's no pushback, the third deployment will be even worse.

This is how it starts.

[soothsayer]

1. Putin's advice no doubt

[2naSalit]

2. K&R

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Where are the people they took?

Surely these people are known to others and being missed.

[Doremus]

14. One man was taken to the federal courthouse, detained for a while and released.

This is a trial balloon. They're judging our reaction and response. We'd better get this right.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. It started quite awhile ago.

Standing Rock, Ferguson, Baltimore, on and on. Barr may be commanding the army, but it's an army that's been in place for years -- and deployed under other administrations.

[AJT]

5. I think the governors of those states requested those troops.

[chia]

8. Mayor Wheeler (Portland) said he didn't ask for help from federal law enforcement, wants them gone

Oregon officials angered as uninvited federal officers deploy in Portland to quell protests

[AJT]

11. I know Oregon did not request troops, that is what makes this

so much more dangerous.

[chia]

13. Ah, I see what you were saying now, thanks

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. Calling on forces that use fascist tactics is part of the problem.

[malaise]

6. Congress has to stop Barr

immediately

[gratuitous]

7. We're way past the start

When Senate Republicans refused to even call witnesses before acquitting Trump in his impeachment "trial," they were telling him to go ahead and do whatever he wants. There will be no accounting, no responsibility imposed on the administration so long as Republicans control the Senate.

Portland is just the normal and natural continuation of a country ruled by dictatorial fiat and not by the Constitution.

[triron]

10. Good to hear from Seth again.

[Fiendish Thingy]

12. Biden must disband DHS and prosecute Barr, Wolf and all Brownshirt enablers

We can’t afford to wait 20 years like Chile did with Pinochet and his cabal.