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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,738 posts)
Sun Dec 11, 2016, 11:25 PM Dec 2016

Trump Surrogate Calls on FBIs Comey to Crackdown on Peaceful Protests

The latest outrage, one that should alarm every American alive, is a call from a Trump acolyte in a Trump-related newspaper. The call to action was a summons for FBI Director James Comey, to use the authority of the Bureau to act as “official state police” to repress Americans exercising their First Amendment right to assemble.

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Americans who are even remotely aware of exactly how the Nazi’s rose to power in 1930s Germany must be astonished at the rate at which the Trump is embracing Gestapo-type tactics. Whether it is compiling an enemies list consisting of government employees or demonizing different groups for rage from his racist zealots, “the Trump” is conducting a real-time master class in how Hitler controlled his enemies.

The latest outrage, one that should alarm every American alive, is a call from a Trump acolyte in a Trump-related newspaper. The call to action was a summons for FBI Director James Comey, to use the authority of the Bureau to act as “official state police” to repress Americans exercising their First Amendment right to assemble.

Although this is a seriously astonishing concept in America, this is the fascist authoritarian Trump making America great like his adopted Russian “bro” made the former Soviet Union “great.” Coupled with the “not-so-stunning” official revelation that Putin’s Russians worked alongside the Trump campaign to install Vladimir’s surrogate in the White House, of course Trump is going to employ Putin tactics to suppress dissent; it is just what authoritarian tyrants do.

The newspaper in question is owned by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Kushner is the same unelected private citizen that Trump wanted the highest level security clearance for so he could “play president” and receive daily presidential security briefings. Kushner is already a high-level advisor to dumb Donnie, and now he is using his personal newspaper as an administration propaganda arm to portray peaceful American protestors as “violent” and unlawful, and to demand that the FBI director Comey employ Stasi, KGB, or Gestapo tactics to crackdown, investigate and intimidate Americans for peaceably assembling.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/12/11/trump-surrogate-calls-fbis-comey-crackdown-peaceful-protests.html

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Trump Surrogate Calls on FBIs Comey to Crackdown on Peaceful Protests (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2016 OP
Yeah, MOFO.. why don't you stick your damn head Cha Dec 2016 #1
jesus..... pangaia Dec 2016 #2
Did you see what's been happening in North Dakota? pinboy3niner Dec 2016 #3
Those brown pants look like they could be stopped by Ilsa Dec 2016 #5
Assault with a deadly water bottle. Assault with intent to commit prayer Feeling the Bern Dec 2016 #7
"The New York Observer" changed when Kushner got it. Aimee in OKC Dec 2016 #4
I think Comey would have to get that order elmac Dec 2016 #6

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
2. jesus.....
Sun Dec 11, 2016, 11:30 PM
Dec 2016

WHERE ARE THE DEMOCRATS???????

WTF is the matter woth them..? 203 are saying something.
the rest.... MUTE

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
3. Did you see what's been happening in North Dakota?
Sun Dec 11, 2016, 11:52 PM
Dec 2016
Police gear up against imminent threat of prayer...
?b3f6a5d7692ccc373d56e40cf708e3fa67d9af9d

#NoDAPL

Ilsa

(61,690 posts)
5. Those brown pants look like they could be stopped by
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 12:49 AM
Dec 2016

A few dozen donuts or buckets of KFC.

(Brown pants vs brown shirts --still gestapo.)

 

Feeling the Bern

(3,839 posts)
7. Assault with a deadly water bottle. Assault with intent to commit prayer
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 02:14 AM
Dec 2016

Living while not white. Exercising first amendment rights.

Dangerous criminal.

I would ask how those badge wearing fascists sleep at night, but that would imply they have consciences and souls, which precious few police have anymore.

Aimee in OKC

(158 posts)
4. "The New York Observer" changed when Kushner got it.
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 12:34 AM
Dec 2016

From Dec. 5:
"Donald Trump's Gestapo-Like Police State May Be Closer Than You Think"

"In a thoroughly disturbing opinion piece in The New York Observer, Austin Bay, an adjunct professor at the University of Texas, Austin, argues that the FBI needs to crack-down on “malcontents” and Trump administration political opponents.

Normally, such a rabid screed so antithetical to fundamental Constitutional rights wouldn’t get the time of day. But the fact that it appeared in the New York Observer makes it scary.

The paper used to be an urbane journal of the comings and goings among New York City’s chattering class. . . .

{ snip }

Why the paper would suddenly veer into alt-right territory is surprising, especially given that most of its readers live in Manhattan and overwhelmingly support Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

In any event, Bay, a retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel, is a case study of why the Founding Fathers strongly opposed the military’s involvement in politics.

In the article, Bay principally calls on the FBI to “conduct a detailed investigation” into the “violence and political thuggery” that has followed in the wake of Trump’s election.

What’s striking about his position? It’s exactly who he thinks should be targeted.

He’s not referring to white supremacists, anti-Semitic hate groups, neo-Nazis or wack patriot groups.

And, he’s not talking about the rash of Swastikas painted on African-American churches, Southern Ku Klux Klan marches, or defilement of mosques and synagogues.

He’s talking about a “thorough probe” of street protests against Trump’s election and their “possible ties to organizations demanding vote recounts.”

{ snip }

He also thinks FBI Director James Comey should use “elector intimidation” as a justification to round up Trump political opponents.

“Reports that members of the Electoral College are being harassed and threatened by angry, vicious (and likely Democratic Party) malcontents require Comey’s quick and systematic attention,” he writes.

Such wide-ranging investigations, he argues, will “give the Bureau’s integrity-challenged director… a chance to sandblast his sullied badge.”

Of course, everyone should condemn violence and veiled threats. But Bay seems to think “political thuggery” is solely the domain of Trump opponents.

More importantly, what he fails to grasp is that peaceful public protests, vote recount demands and even lobbying members of the Electoral College are all Constitutionally protected activities. "

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http://www.moneypowergreed.com/639/donald-trump-gestapo-like-police-state/

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