Donald Trump's coming police state: We have a president who wants unlimited power and...

[DonViejo]

Donald Trump's coming police state: We have a president who wants unlimited power and won't respect the rule of law

WEDNESDAY, FEB 8, 2017 08:07 AM EST

He wasn't kidding about being the "law and order" president. What that will mean looks more chilling every day

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

It would appear that some of the folks who were hoping that Donald Trump was actually an isolationist “jobs” president, rather than the authoritarian white nationalist with imperial ambitions he clearly showed himself to be on the stump, are now being forced to face reality. Everything he has done since he was inaugurated proves him to be dead serious about unleashing the military and the police to enact his agenda, and he wants the other branches of government to understand that if they obstruct him he’s going to make sure his rabid followers know who to blame.

According to Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker, legal scholars of all stripes, even the torture advocate John Yoo, whom I wrote about on Tuesday, are disturbed by Trump’s executive actions and what he’s saying about them. Pretty much across the board, they anticipate that Trump will blame the courts , the media and the political opposition in the event of an attack. They believe he is anxious to use an attack as an excuse to “take the gloves off” in whatever way he deems necessary.

That could mean everything from registering and deporting Muslims to enhanced surveillance to an attack on a foreign country and the reinstatement of torture and “black site” prisons. (A draft executive order on the black sites has made the rounds already.) All we know at this point is that Trump is looking for an excuse, and odds are there will be one at some point.

But as much as the prospect of these civil-liberties violations are chilling, they aren’t the only area where Trump is getting ready to pounce. He has made no secret of the fact that he generally wants law enforcement to get tougher and more repressive. This is one of his bedrock beliefs going back to the late 1980s when he took out that newspaper ad in response to the Central Park Five case, headlined “Bring Back the Death Penalty, Bring Back Our Police.” He ostentatiously dubbed himself “the law and order candidate” during his presidential campaign, and actively courted police unions. In his “New Deal for Black America” the second item on his list says that his administration “will invest in training and funding both local and federal law enforcement operations to remove the gang members, drug dealers, and criminal cartels from our neighborhoods.”

Trump has been vague about his policy on marijuana, generally saying that legalization should be left to the states. But he has made many comments about the need to stop drug trafficking at the border, going all the way back to his announcement in which he famously declared that undocumented workers were flooding over the border, “bringing drugs” and “bringing crime.” He has made it clear that he is determined to jump start the drug war, and the man he has chosen to lead up the Department of Justice, Sen. Jeff Sessions, is a hardcore drug warrior.

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http://www.salon.com/2017/02/08/donald-trumps-coming-police-state-we-have-a-president-who-wants-unlimited-power-and-wont-respect-the-rule-of-law/

[2naSalit]

2. K&R x 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

[UCmeNdc]

3. Trump will use an attack to seize power.

Clear as day!

[DK504]

4. He is trying to incite an attack to happen with in his 1st year.

He is trying to take over before he can be impeached. 25th Amendment needs to start going around now. Democrats should begin their own seperate investigations so we can nail him ASAP.