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Chopper

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  1. I'd encourage you to take a look at what's known as NSPM-7, issued by the WH at the end of September, which indicates it's just getting started. It's a presidential directive to all federal policing agencies (FBI, NHS, DEA, Marshalls etc etc) about what to target in the upcoming years. A very fair interpretation is that they will be sorting through the names of Americans who fit a very wide profile but not anyone who's maga with the very same tracking tools - and from the very same office - as they track Muslim terrorists. First, here's The Onion, published Oct 7, with only a slightly sarcastic take on it but it should accurately give you the flavor: https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-nspm-7/ On Sept. 25, President Trump issued a directive called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 in which “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity” were described as “common threads” of domestic terrorism. Here is everything you need to know about NSPM-7. Q: What is NSPM-7? A: A key term for future AP U.S. History students in the “Rise of Fascism” unit. Q: How does the order define anti-American? A: They can’t tell you. That would ruin the surprise. Q: What is Trump’s plan for antifa? A: He will create the organization, and then destroy it. Q: Is this like that book Minority Report was based on? A: We’d avoid referencing books from now on. Q: Isn’t this a violation of the First Amendment? A: That’s exactly the type of question the administration would love to talk to you about in a windowless room. Here's some additional reading https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/secretive-watchlisting-center-executing https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-npsm-7-memo-crackdown-opposition-1235440530/ They are going to go after anyone they consider "the enemy within," as the president put it. They are effectively labeling speech and opposition to the government as terrorism and their efforts to root it out will be staffed by actual police using the highly capable tracking that has been used to track muslims deemed potential lone wolf terrorists. Here's a bit of what Klippenstein published NSPM-7 directs a new national strategy to “disrupt” any individual or groups “that foment political violence,” including “before they result in violent political acts.” In other words, they’re targeting pre-crime, to reference Minority Report. The Trump administration isn’t only targeting organizations or groups but even individuals and “entities” whom NSPM-7 says can be identified by any of the following “indicia” (indicators) of violence: anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity, support for the overthrow of the United States Government, extremism on migration, extremism on race, extremism on gender hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion, and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality. “The United States requires a national strategy to investigate and disrupt networks, entities, and organizations that foment political violence so that law enforcement can intervene in criminal conspiracies before they result in violent political acts,” the directive states (emphasis mine). A “pre-crime” endeavor, preventing attacks before they happen, is core to the post-9/11 concept of counterterrorism itself. No longer satisfied to investigate acts of terrorism after the fact to bring terrorists to justice, the Bush administration adopted preemption. Overseas, that led to aerial assassination by drones and “special operations” kill missions. Domestically, it led to a counter-terrorism campaign whose hallmark was excessive and illegal government surveillance and the use of undercover agents and “confidential human sources” to trap (and entrap) would-be terrorists. Now, with Donald Trump’s directive retooling the counter-terror apparatus to go after Americans at home, this means monitoring political activity, or speech, as an investigative method to discover “radicalism.” (Contrary to other national security documents all during the post-Watergate era, NSPM-7 doesn’t even mention the First Amendment or the fundamental right of Americans to organize and protest.) The focus on speech is evident throughout NSPM-7. The directive says that political violence is the result of “organized campaigns” that often begin (with the left) dehumanizing targets in “anonymous chat foras, in-person meetings, social media, and even educational institutions.” To give a sense of how broad this formulation is, Trump’s earlier designation of Antifa as a domestic terrorist group was accompanied by a White House fact sheet singling out people who “celebrated” Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December. As I wrote at the time, this describes a lot of Americans!
  2. What Would Hitler Do? Two shots and a chaser
  3. MIT deftly turned the tables on the administration's rhetoric
  4. Debate for the VA Gov tonight was uh different
  5. I saw that earlier today and I swear I thought it was parody and was slightly amused. Wow.
  6. The TNG is already embedded with ICE. They announced that today. If they hit more resistance, they will invoke the Insurrection Act. Who will they arrest? You seriously think they have nobody to target? Protestors. That's why they are ramping up the pressure. Did you see the march through downtown Chicago last night? That's the type of people who will be targeted. Along with people who help organize it. They arrested a sitting US Congressman on fake charges already and today indicted the AG of the state of NY. They'll go after people who donated money to candidates or causes. More politicians. will be targeted. Advisers to politicians. Journalists. They flat-out murdered people on at least 3 boats. All they've alleged (and have offered zero proof) is they were drug running. Even if you take them at their word, drug running is not an offense for which you're legally allowed to kill a person. Now consider they're thousands of miles from the US. They have no fucking idea who or what are on those boats. However, if the wanted to know, the US military has many times before interdicted a suuspect boat and arrested or checked out what's going on. That's the legal way. Just murdering people is flatly illegal. Again, they are blatantly violating the law now on "easy cases" and building their way up to even more violations. You can think they're failing because you look out your window and don't see war. That doesn't mean it's not happening. Downplaying what's going on is horrible. Oh they only shot a pastor in the head with mustard gas pellet 7 tiimes. For no reason. WTAF. Mustard gas isn't a chemical munition? In fact it's internationally regulated as a chemical warfare agent. To claim what they're doing is backfiring requires wearing the rosiest of glasses. They've met some resistance in the courts but that's the only thing so far that's kept us from falling fully under an autocratic regime. You haven't even seen the criminal undertakings they have planned for the elections. Barring a miracle, the USSC will not stop any of this. They have yet to lift a finger, they continue to rubber stamp Trump's crimes and they've given every indication they intend to continue to do so. /rant over
  7. We have a president trying to send military troops from Texas into OR and IL. A president who's labeled a non-existent organization called "Antifa" only by the magats, but commonly a loose coalition of people protesting are now a designated terrorist organization. They're vaporizing Venezuleans in the ocean for no reason, but they've labeled them terrorists so they're getting away with it. ICE troops are shooting people protesting legally in the head with chemical munitions, kidnapping citizens and other people here legally. They are ramping up the violence and trying to get the public to accept or ignore it. I don't know what you think is happening but I'm pretty certain it's not a big nothing.
  8. We have 20. Do I hear 40%?!
  9. Dotard's secret, not-so-secret, message to AG Spam. but...
  10. Kavanaugh: The government sometimes makes brief investigative stops. The government makes a brief Kavanaugh stop:
  11. He is an extreme narcissist. So yes, he believes it. He craves it. It keeps him somewhat stable. And if you don't praise him, he thinks less of what he hears from you.
  12. He hasn't said on his account one way or the other but it looks like he got on his flight. He posted an interview of him with cnn from today and it looks like a Spanish hotel. It could've been anything from an errant click by an agent to a turning points nazi faking out the airline and getting them to cancel it. update: the prof spoke to the press again (horrible operational security ffs) said he still has no idea what happened to his flight reservation, and said he's in a NJ hotel and will try again to get out of Jersey tonight @Hookah Horns
  13. A couple governors and the judiciary are currently all we have standing between us and an autocratic regime. I'm baffled how you don't find it relevaant. Even the governor of fucking Oklahoma seems to be cluing in.
  14. I mean they started off talking about tylenol and pregnant women, then they just switched to whether it's safe for babies. They're very confused, demented old men.
  15. Important new research has emerged
  16. The next words out of his mouth were basically, we don't have the proof but we're going to make it up." Now I've gotta go find the clip...
  17. Look, I'm very pleased you selected a user name that reflects your lot in life. However, I'm saddened you don't understand the ramifications of getting covid. But have a good day, clown. Also I think there's a thread for nonces like you who want to have this argument. You should go there.
  18. What you've posted in your last two posts seems like a waste of time. But that's just my pov.
  19. So we should just lay down and allow them to run over the law and us? Hell no. You fight where possible and use all legal means.
  20. The video where he says, Someone showed me a video of a 8 month pregnant Columbia Univ prof gobbling tylenol and ranting -- either he's making it up or someone showed him ai slop and he's stupid enough to think it's real. Either way, he's fucking nuts.
  21. Here's a taste of how the legal arguments over the NG deployment in IL are going. Perry is the Judge, Hamilton represents USDOJ.
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