Coleman Hughes on Race, Black Lives Matter, Policing, Trump
This is a good discussion.
Why the US Military Usually Punishes Misconduct but Police Often Close Ranks
By Dwight Stirling The Conversation Many U.S. military members publicly disavowed President Trump’s decision to pardon Edward Gallagher, the former SEAL commando convicted of killing a teenage detainee in Iraq in 2017. Gallagher’s alleged war crimes were nearly universally condemned up the chain of command, from enlisted men […]
Will ‘Law and Order’ Win Trump Reelection?
This interview contains my general take on the great lumpenproletarian cultural revolution of 2020 from a Howard Cosell perspective.
US sheriffs rebel against state mask orders even as Covid-19 spreads
Now, if these sheriffs would start rebelling against a whole lot more laws, we might have something. By Jason Wilson The Guardian Sheriffs around the country are refusing to enforce or are even actively resisting Covid-19 mask laws and lockdowns, while others have permitted or encouraged armed vigilantism […]
All Police Can Be Secret Police
Authentic anti-police statism means opposing police at every level and within every institutional sector, including federal, state, local, tribal, military, university, or private. By Melissa Gira Grant The New Republic Painful images are still coming out of Portland—law enforcement wielding exterminator-like sprayers of tear gas, firing “less-lethal” munitions […]
How I avoided being sucked into the social justice cult after all my friends turned into pod people
Ammon Bundy Comes Out in Support of BLM, Calls to Defund the Police
By Britanny Berstein National Review Ammon Bundy, an anti-government activist who lead the 41-day armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge back in 2016, expressed support for the Black Lives Matter movement and for defunding the police in a recent Facebook video. He said in the video […]
Federal agents, officers head to Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee as Operation Legend expands
By Kristine Phillips USA Today WASHINGTON – The Justice Department plans to send nearly 100 federal agents and officers to Detroit, Cleveland, Ohio, and Milwaukee in an expansion of Operation Legend, a federal crime initiative that began earlier this month. The department will send 42 agents to Detroit […]
ICE Agents Complain About Nazi Comparisons, Say They’re Only Enforcing the Laws
Fed pigs defend themselves by offering the Nuremberg defense. But why are the liberal pundits at Newsweek not criticizing ALL fed pigs, rather than mere offering selective criticisms of those who are in conflict with the Progressive ideological agenda? One upside of current events is that liberals, leftists, […]
Research Says Violent Cops Cause Violent Protests
There have been plenty of full-on police riots during the past couple of months. By Matt Baume Portland Mercury You will be shocked, simply SHOCKED, to learn that after decades of researching effective methods for police response to large crowd actions, researchers have found — and you’re never […]
Is Black Lives Matter Right?
It is a mistake to allow the fight against the police state to be turned into a race war. Think smart, folks.
The True Horrors of China’s Social Credit System
China is a test market for high-tech state repression elsewhere.
Video shows New York police loading person into unmarked minivan
By Dennis Romero NBC News New York City police officers in khaki shorts and dark T-shirts stuffed a suspect into an unmarked minivan during an arrest captured on video Tuesday, raising concerns about using tactics similar to those attributed to federal agents during demonstrations in Portland, Oregon, this […]
The Federal Gestapo in Portland
By Trip Jennings Federal agents shot me in the face last night while I was covering the Black Lives Matter protests in Portland. It should be obvious to everyone by now that BIPOC face a higher risk of violence at the hands of police than I do. I’ll […]
Unpacking DHS’s Troubling Explanation of the Portland Van Video
By Andrew Crespo Lawfare Over the past few days, millions of people have seen a now-viral video in which two federal agents dressed in full combat gear removed an apparently peaceful protester from the streets of Portland, Oregon, and carried him away in an unmarked van. Stories have […]
ACLU Asks Judge to Find Federal Agents in Portland in Contempt of Court for Violating Order
By Tess Riski Williamette Weekly The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon on Tuesday asked U.S. District Judge Michael Simon to find federal agents in contempt of the court for violating a July 23 restraining order that prohibited the federal officers from attacking journalists and legal observers covering Portland […]
Trump Wanted to Fire Esper Over Troops Dispute
Notice that Trump didn’t get to deploy the military to quell the protests in early June and that Raytheon frontman Mark Esper is still in place. Essentially, the Deep State overruled Trump twice, first on sending out the military, and then on firing Esper. Clearly, this shows that […]
Former DHS and Defense Dept Spokesperson: Trump’s Response to Civil Unrest in Portland is Damaging to Our Government and Our Democracy
Trump is only able to deploy DHS forces to cities because the military-intelligence services (“deep state”) are allowing him to do so. The question is what is their angle? Are they delibertately allowing Trump to trip up and fall? By David Lapan Just Security I believe deeply that […]
Revealed: oil giants help fund powerful police groups in top US cities
Fossil fuel companies, one of the most significant sectors of the old bourgeoisie/right-wing of the ruling class, are among the funders/backers of the Republican Party, as opposed to the rising tech-oligarchs who back the Democratic Party, with Wall Street and banksters having their hands in both. By Nina […]
The Right to Revolt
“Trump wanted a war on social unrest and the social unresters brought him more than he and his pigs could fucking handle. Forget our rigged election circus. This is how real democracy happens. Poor people coming together in the streets to smash the chains of tyranny. Now this […]
Trump’s Manufactured Crisis Only Sows More Chaos
Kudos to Krystal for mentioning Fred Hampton is this segment. Krystal Ball gives her thoughts on coverage of the protests nationwide and why she believes Donald Trump manufactured a crisis by sending Federal agents to big cities.
The Intersection of Madness & Reality
She was shot in the head by Trump’s stormtroopers in Portland, Oregon, this past weekend. She was a member of the “Wall of Moms.” By Kristen Jessie-Uyanik I want to preface this difficult post by saying that Black Lives Matter and that should remain at the center of […]
ProPublica posts NYPD records, bypassing judge’s blockade
A sign that a state is losing its legitimacy is when judicial orders are openly defied, or when there are violent attacks on the judiciary. There was an assassination attempt on a federal judge in New Jersey last week, and now the alternative media is simply saying to […]
Cities in Bind as Turmoil Spreads Far Beyond Portland
By Mike Baker, Thomas Fuller and Shane Goldmacher New York Times SEATTLE — A series of strident new protests over police misconduct rattled cities across the country over the weekend, creating a new dilemma for state and local leaders who had succeeded in easing some of the turbulence […]
Portland: A Manifestation of the Universal Police State
As I have been saying for years, the US police state (the largest of any country that is a formal democracy) has grown to the point where it no longer limits its attacks to those on the bottom layers or the margins of the social stratification system. It […]
The Portland Police State: An On-the-Ground Report
By Nate Cohen Hey all, So update from the Portland front. Before I go any further I want to say that I’m gonna be ok and it was close but I am luckily not critically injured. And Black Lives Matter. Feel free to share this post. A little […]
In Portland, Questions Swirl Around Local Police’s Coordination With Federal Officers
By Arun Gupta The Intercept Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty agrees with other elected officials in Oregon who say federal police dispatched to the city by President Donald Trump are an “occupying army,” represent “a blatant abuse of power,” and are “shadowy forces” that have been “escalating, […]
More federal officers deploying to Portland as protests gain momentum
By Conrad Wilson Follow and Jonathan Levinson By OPB.Org Several dozen additional out-of-town federal law enforcement officers are deploying to Portland as they look to make additional arrests in the coming days, while also shifting tactics from the use of tear gas, according to multiple federal law enforcement […]
Do Americans Get That Trump is Instituting Martial Law?
Trumpists should remember that this is the system that will be inherited by future presidents Biden, Harris, O’Rourke, Buttigieg, Rice, Power, Newsom, Cuomo, Whitmer, etc. By Umair Haque Void Network Yesterday, the Mayor of Portland was gassed by the secret police of storm troopers that Donald Trump has […]
Rand Paul: It’s Time To Demilitarize the Police
By Rand Paul Reason In a free society, citizens should be able to easily distinguish between civilian law enforcement tasked with keeping the peace in our communities and the armed forces tasked with protecting our country from foreign adversaries. Unfortunately, thanks to the federal government flooding our neighborhoods […]
Is It Time to Defund the Department of Homeland Security?
To ask the question is to answer. Somehow, the USA managed to exist for 200 years without the DHS. By Jonathan Blitzer New Yorker
“We cannot enforce the law…”
Municipal police typically function as the private army of politically-connected business and real estate interests. This is a fairly significant fourth-generation warfare victory, relatively speaking.
Seattle Protests: Fires and Pepper Spray as Thousands March Through City
I’m happy to see leftists chanting “Feds Go Home.” But will they keep it up if Trump leaves and Biden comes in? By Mike Baker and Hallie Golden New York Times SEATTLE — After weeks of escalating confrontations between protesters and federal authorities in Portland, Ore., a crowd […]
So Close, But Yet So Far…
I came across this recent statement from a leftist activist. The comments below were made as part of a wider argument that opposition to PC is nothing more special pleading by reactionaries who merely want to be exempt from criticism, which is the standard leftist reply to criticisms […]
How the USA Will Become a One-Party State
By Keith Preston A book published a couple of years ago, which is reviewed by the Guardian below, outlines the structural methods the Democrats will eventually use to create a de facto one-party state as they continue to gain the upper hand through cultural, demographic, technological, generational, and […]
The Truth About Critical Methods | James Lindsay
James Lindsay on the theology of the new theocracy. The two most important things that are happening in the developed world at the present time are the re-feudalization of class relations and the growth of totalitarian humanism as the self-legitimating ideology of the rising ruling class. Just as […]
Constitutional law experts see federal officers’ actions in Portland as a ‘red flag’
One thing that Trumpists and “conservative” cop-lovers should remember is that the ongoing expansion of the police state by each successive President will eventually be inherited by someone like future President Kamala Harris. By Gillian Flaccus Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal law enforcement officers’ actions at […]
Donald J. Mubarak?
“Trump is in a lose/lose situation. If he backs down now, then he looks like the soft fool that he is. If this continues, then protests will escalate nationwide, and someone will get killed. At that point, this protest movement will turn into a full-blown insurgency. See the […]
New poll reveals who voters see as LAW & ORDER president
Interestingly, it’s about even between Trump and Biden.
Trump Threatens Constitutional Crisis: Deploying Unwanted Federal Troops In US Cities
When Trump was elected, I knew it was going to be the return of Nixon, and here it is. Another irony is that we now have liberal Democrats defending local sovereignty against the overreach of the feds. Generally speaking, liberals and leftists perform much better when a Repugnican […]
Federal Agents Envelop Portland Protest, and City’s Mayor, in Tear Gas
Conflicts between federal, state, and local officials are always welcome. Fragment, fragment, fragment… By Mike Baker New York Times PORTLAND, Ore. — The mayor of Portland, Ted Wheeler, was left coughing and wincing in the middle of his own city on Wednesday night after federal officers deployed tear […]
PIGS Gonna Pig
“Law enforcement” agencies really do need to rethink their opposition to IQ tests. By Felipe Nystrom I had to sit on this for a couple of days because of how pissed off I was but here’s my rant. I am and always will be a Costarrican who happens […]
Infiltration in Portland’s Black Lives Matter Movement
That goes without saying. by Susan Anglada Bartley and Pedro Anglada Cordero Medium On the 23rd of July, we became eyewitnesses to infiltration into the Portland Black Lives Matter movement. This article will document what we saw and experienced. Last night, we witnessed a small group of operatives […]
It’s Time To Bust Police Unions
It’s rather ironic to see conservatives and liberals both doing an about-face on unions. By Peter Suderman Reason In 2018, as a gunman murdered 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Sgt. Brian Miller, a sheriff’s deputy with the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, hid […]
US mayors demand stop to federal policing with ‘no oversight’ in Portland
One thing conservatives and libertarians should appreciate about Trump is that he has definitely motivated liberal and left opinion to adopt a more favorable view of states’ right and local sovereignty, lol. By Lauren Aratani The Guardian Fifteen mayors of major US cities have sent a letter to […]
Court documents reveal secretive federal unit deployed for ‘Operation Diligent Valor’ in Oregon
By Gabriella Borter Reuters The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has deployed more than 100 federal agents to Portland, Oregon, on a mission named “Operation Diligent Valor” to patrol government buildings as anti-racism protests flared this month, court documents show. The documents, filed on Tuesday, helped shed light […]
Trump to send ‘surge’ of hundreds of federal agents to cities
So now Trump is trying to be a domestic policy version of George W. Bush? “It’s going to a terrific surge, the best surge ever, a fantastic surge…” BBC President Donald Trump is to send “a surge” of federal security forces to US cities in a crackdown on […]
Does This Seem Familiar?
This is from an article that was written by Jerry Rubin, a founder of the “Yippies,” and a defendant in the “Chicago 8” trial in 1969-1970 when the Nixon administration was trying to use trumped-up charges stemming from the unrest at the 1968 Democratic Convention for the purpose […]
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