This action in Portland is a prelude to more. As tens of thousands of Americans are dying of a deadly virus, Trump has directed his militarized DHS brownshirts to take over the streets of America and roust peaceful protesters in order to protect … buildings and statues:
When asked about calls for an investigation into DHS police tactics in Portland, Oregon, Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli tells NPR not only are they not going to stop but they want to take the tactics nationwide.
Well, we are – we welcome – the more investigations, the better. With as much lawbreaking is going on, we’re seeking to prosecute as many people as are breaking the law as it relates to federal jurisdiction. That’s not always happening with respect to local jurisdiction and local offenses. But, you know, this is a posture we intend to continue not just in Portland but in any of the facilities that we’re responsible for around the country.
You can’t be surprised. He’s been saying he was going to do this for months.
Remember his phone call to the governors on the Monday after he fouled his trousers and ran to the bunker?
You have to dominate. If you don’t dominate, you’re wasting your time. They’re going to run all over you, you’ll look like a bunch of jerks. You have to dominate, and you have to arrest people, and you have to try people and they have to go to jail for long periods of time. I saw what happened in Philadelphia. I saw what happened in Dallas where they kicked a guy to death. I don’t know if he died or not but if he didn’t, it’s a miracle, what they did to him, they were kicking him like I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.
They don’t talk about that, they talk about a lot of other things but they don’t talk about that but I saw what happened in Dallas and those kids, they’re all on camera, they’re wiseguys. And it’s coming from the radical left, you know it, everybody knows it, but it’s also looters, and it’s people that figure they can get free stuff by running into stores and running out with television sets. I saw it, a kid get a lot of stuff, he puts it in the back of a brand new car and drives off.
You have every one of these guys on tape, why aren’t you prosecuting them? Now the harder you are, the tougher you are, the less likely it is that you’re going to be hit. This is a movement. We found out they’re delivering supplies to various place in various states, your people know about it now. But we found out many things, it’s like a movement, and it’s a movement that if you don’t put it down, it’ll get worse and worse, this is like Occupy Wall Street. It was a disaster until one day, somebody said, that’s enough and they just went in and wiped them out and that’s the last time we ever heard the name Occupy Wall Street, until today when I heard about it, I heard Occupy Wall Street. I haven’t heard about it, I heard about it today for the first time in a long time. They were they forever it seemed on wall street. they closed up Wall Street, the financial district of the world, total domination, they were ordering pizzas, nobody did anything.
And then one day somebody said that’s enough, you’re getting out of here within two hours, and then after that everything was beautiful and that was the last time we heard about it. These are the same people. These are radicals and they’re anarchists. They’re anarchists, whether you like it or not, I know some of you guys are different persuasions and that’s OK. I fully understand that. I understand both. I’m for everybody. I’m representing everybody, I’m not representing — radical right radical left — I’m representing everybody but you have to know what you’re dealing with. But it’s happened before, it’s happened numerous times. And the only time it’s successful is when you’re weak. And most of you are weak.
And I will say this, what’s going on in Los Angeles — I have a friend who lives in Los Angeles. They say all the storefronts are gone. They’re all broken and gone. The merchandise is gone. It’s a shame. It didn’t look as bad as that to me, maybe it was the sunshine, I don’t know. But in Los Angeles, the storefronts are gone. Philadelphia’s a mess, Philadelphia, what happened there is horrible. And that was on television, they’re breaking into stores and nobody showed up to even stop them. There was no — nobody showed up to stop them. Washington, they had large groups, very large groups, they attacked the AFL-CIO building. So they attacked (INAUDIBLE) friends, which is very interesting. But Washington was under great control. But we’re going to have it under much more control. We’re pouring in — we’re going to pull in thousands of people (INAUDIBLE) of the DC police, the mayor, the mayor of Washington DC and Secret Service did a very good job around the White House but their sole, their primary function is around the White House.
But and we’re going to clamp down very, very strong. And you better arrest (INAUDIBLE) — and you’ll never see this stuff again and you’ll have to let them know that. They’re trying to get people out on bail in Minneapolis. I understand they’re out there trying to get all these guys out on bail. So you have them on tape. You have them on television. In history, there’s never been anybody taped so much committing a crime. You have these guys throwing rocks, they show them last night on one of the stations on one of the networks throwing a big brick, and they had him in slow motion replay. Like it’s like a fielder. Catching a ball or throwing a ball you have the slow motion replay, you see exactly who he is, everybody knows.
You have everybody on tape, you gotta arrest all those people, you gotta try them. And if they get five years or ten years, they have to get five years or ten years. There’s no retribution. So I say that and the word is dominate. If you don’t dominate your city and your state, they’re gonna walk away with you. And we’re doing it in Washington, in DC, we’re going to do something that people haven’t seen before. But we’re going to have total domination.
If you read that whole transcript you’ll see that Bill Barr, Mark Esper and General Milley were there pimping for the DOJ and the Pentagon getting involved. Barr was laying the legal groundwork under the terrorist statutes,. But where was Chad Wolf the acting Secretary of Homeland Security? He wasn’t on that call.
There was a lot of blowback for that call and the actions they took shortly afterward in Lafayette Park. The military balked and even Bill Barr decided he didn’t want to be left holding this bag. So, it appears that DHS has stepped into the breach, gladly taking up the banner of domination and running with it.
I think we knew that when they named that new police agence “The Department of Homeland Security” that it would eventually come to this, didn’t we?