Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) tells Ali Velshi unidentified federal agents in Portland, Ore. are using “Stormtrooper” tactics to quell protesters. He says the agents are “not here by our invitation,” and along with other members of the state’s congressional delegation, he has called for a federal investigation into their deployment. Aired on 7/17/2020.
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Rep. Blumenauer: Presence Of Federal Agents In Portland Is A ‘Dramatic Overreaction’ | MSNBC
Trump will go full on Dictator if he’s reelected in November. Lose your right for a free and fair election and ALL your civil rights. Vote blue.
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@Manly_Man come on man, i Just said he could do It If he wanted thru the insurrection act Not that he is doing it… so chill
As i Said multiple times those are federal officers not military personnel, there is a huge difference
@Manly_Man then vote my dude, and be part of the change you want to see
40.2 percent of the American People say that Trump is doing a good Job.
Do you think your nation still has any future?
LOL
@Nícolas Bruno these people are just outraged that violent marxist thugs in Portland have been arrested by federal officers as they are suspected of committing federal crimes.. they pretend to not be able to grasp this basic fact to act as if this is somehow an overstep of power.. meanwhile they’re the ones with politicians trying to order around federal officers that they have no jurisdiction over.. just point these facts out and ridicule them.. don’t engage they have nothing of value to ad just lies and delusions.. always look at the facts of a story yourself
@Manly_Man really.. you’re 57 and you still haven’t learnt that federal law enforcement offices exist.. wow i feel sorry for you. what rock have you been living under.. you see a federal officer is the ones that arrest people suspected of committing a federal crime…. tell me if I’ve lost you yet… perhaps your age and IQ match
Fascistic overreach, abuse of power.
yea the state and local politicians know they have no jurisdiction over the federal offices and have no right to try to tell them to stop enforcing federal laws or arresting people suspected of committing federal crimes..
They are testing this out in Portland to see how far they can take it. Watch them use this to crack down on blue voting cities in November…
dsndicmsa, federal government must notify state and local authorities, the officers must also have agency identification and personal identification. At that point they are nothing more than Trump’s vigilantes. A tweet is not official notification, or authorization. None of the protesters were charged with crimes, and they were not advised of why they were being detained. Most were not even near federal property. This was nothing more than harassment and intimidation by an out of control Trump, who is looking to distract from the rising death toll and increasing infection from the coronavirus pandemic.
@John DiGiacomo put the crack pipe down
They are already doing exactly that…RIGHT NOW. Have you heard of ‘poll watchers’?
At a strategy session in February attended by conservative donors and activists, several people expressed a specific need for Republican poll watchers in “inner city” and predominantly Native American precincts, according to audio recordings of the event obtained by The Intercept and Documented.
“You get some [Navy] Seals in those polls and they’re going to say, ‘No, no, this is what it says. This is how we’re going to play this show,’” said Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote, a group that lobbies for voting restrictions and organizes volunteers to go into precincts and aggressively challenge voters who they believe are improperly registered. “That’s what we need. We need people who are unafraid to call it like they see it.”
Using former soldiers and law enforcement as poll watchers was banned in 1981 by a judicial consent decree imposed on the Republican Party, but that ban was lifted in 2018 when a New Jersey judge declined to renew it. The ban came explicitly in response to an effort by the Republican National Committee to intimidate voters in African American communities by creating a so-called Ballot Security Task Force, threatening arrest and a $1,000 fine for improper voting.
Participants in the meeting also spoke of vote-by-mail initiatives as an impending threat to Republican power. Attendees did not identify any specific examples of voter fraud around vote-by-mail — rather, they expressed concern that the measure would benefit Democrats. The meeting, in February, came at least a month before the coronavirus pandemic raised the issue of vote-by-mail as a public health measure nationwide. Since then, Republicans all the way up to the president have repeated the claim that mail-in ballots proliferate voter fraud — a claim for which there is no evidence.
The groups at the conference have wasted no time in acting to implement the measures mentioned in the meeting. True the Vote has already made efforts to recruit 50,000 former military and law enforcement to watch the polls, and filed a lawsuit to block New Mexico from instituting universal vote-by-mail as a response to concerns that in-person voting could expose voters to coronavirus.
Exactly.
Hate the press. CHECKhide info. CHECK Take control of the law enforcement. CHECK.
Lie to the citizens CHECK.
Demand to be all powerful. CHECK. Put the attorney General on your payroll CHECK.
Second amendment rights are good for both wings if the American Eagle. The Governor should call out the National Guard to protect Oregon citizens from from unmarked military thugs using Gestapo tactics. I am proud of Oregon’s leaders and love my city. No more brownshirts in Portland!
Unless and until these people IDENTIFY themselves as Federal officers, they are not Federal officers exercising legitimate police power. They are kidnappers and can be dealt with as such.
These are terrorists defined in patriot act. Section 802 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Pub. L. No. 107-52) expanded the definition of terrorism to cover “”domestic,”” as opposed to international, terrorism. A person engages in domestic terrorism if they do an act “dangerous to human life” that is a violation of the criminal laws of a state or the United States, if the act appears to be intended to: (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping
The National Guard needs to be called out to protect the public in Portland.
“President Obama’s action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law,” said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director
@Emsley Wyatt You are absolutely correct. If they refuse to identify themselves, they should not be considered federal agents. In fact, the correct assumption should be that they are foreign agents ( not at all unlikely given what we know about Trump) and should be regarded as enemy combatants. The governor should call out the national guard to apprehend them and impound their vehicles.
Do the Trumpians have an excuse for this too? This is tyranny.
Apparently Trumpublicans will defend any action that violates any rights except the second amendment. The protesters weren’t at the federal buildings or statues, they weren’t burning or defacing property. The federal “agents” weren’t requested by state or local authorities, and never notified them. There was no federal announcement, or presidential orders, tweets aren’t official notification. Perhaps you should try reading Niemoeller’s quote, or Orwell’s “Animal Farm” then again they’re probably too stupid to understand it. I never knew how the Germans could accept Hitler and the Nazis, now I’m watching it in real time.
@HORSE C*#K you live in Oregon? Where did you learn your English and Grammar?
@Christine B. From THE UNIVERSITY “This is not a job interview, grammar nazi!”
Debate my point you child.
@HORSE C*#K I can’t debate someone with a phucked up name as yours. I am laughing too hard at your idiocy. Besides, I wouldn’t be able to understand your grammar.
“President Obama’s action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law,” said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director
TRUMP’S GESTAPOS…THIS IS NOT NAZI GERMANY…
@showlogicprod “President Obama’s action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law,” said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director
Ronald Armstrong
Nope its NAZI AMERICA,,, FFs wake up you have a Hitler in the W H oh Hitler,,, suffered mental deterioration due Syphilis !! like The Donald he also took refuge in a Bunker,,, see the similarities ??
@keirfree senior seems Hitler was Obama passing this law. What law could be more unhuman.
@Think BigPicture can you repost in the English lancuage please ?? I don’t do Language Fuckwits
@keirfree senior yes I know the left doesn’t like truth or your racist. It doesn’t like facts because there racist. They live in ignorant bliss.
TRUMP is inflaming this for political gain and misdirection. I am very afraid. As the entire nation moves to get rid him. What will Trump instigate next next week, next month. I say indite Trump on criminal charges.
Bill Simmons I agree and not later right now
America you need to control Trump before he starts pushing the buttons on the world as well. My sympathies to those honest decent Americans of all colours and faiths. To those thugs in uniforms behaving this way remember war crimes can be used to prosecute you even outside of a formal war!
Holy Crap! Trump has started his own secret police? That’s straight up out of the worst of history. If it’s too secret for the FBI or National Guard we have left constitutional boundaries.
@jonathan beatty that thinking for yourself only works when you have the ability to actually gain a FGOTO…FIRM GRASP OF THE OBVIOUS.
See Infragard. It’s also a police corporation non profit paying no taxes.
Yes he has! We must not let history repeat itself. This is exactly what Adolf Hitler did in the 1920’s with his “Brown Shirts”. Trump is gonna be kicking and screaming as he is dragged out of the White House. He is going to try every dirty trick in the book to stop it happening.
that is what the shaw of IRAN DID……..BUT we have a great president right? he alone can fix it. The man is mentally ill and his kids know it and tried to cover for him ..those 4 kids should be walked out.
@Truth Counts then why did Don Jr. tell people to vote by mail… he already knows what would happen he wants to stop it!
Trump is now unleashing his secret police (AKA Gestapo) on the citizens of Portland. Isn’t this what fascists do? This is getting scary.
@Think BigPicture You forgot this part – The ACLU has filed more than 200 legal actions against the Trump administration, winning a nationwide stay of Trump’s Muslim Ban just over 24 hours after it was issued, stopping the administration’s family separation policy and blocking the asylum ban.
@B P I sure you can find hundred ways to deflect blame but trump didn’t sign this n a z i law Obama did. Democrats did. And same law is being used against these protesters and patriot act.
Obama administration has argued that it can deport asylum-seekers without any oversight or review from the federal courts. This practice deprives asylum-seekers of their constitutional right to challenge their deportation orders in federal court.
These cases illustrate the inhumanity and unfairness of the Obama administration’s treatment of families and adults seeking asylum — treatment that the ACLU is fighting on several fronts
Obama administration has argued that it can deport asylum-seekers without any oversight or review from the federal courts. This practice deprives asylum-seekers of their constitutional right to challenge their deportation orders in federal court.
These cases illustrate the inhumanity and unfairness of the Obama administration’s treatment of families and adults seeking asylum — treatment that the ACLU is fighting on several fronts
Think Big Picture, Obama wasn’t perfect, there are several decisions he made I vehemently opposed this was one, reauthorization of the Patriot act was another. That doesn’t excuse the Constitutional abuses by this administration. Another term with Trump, and the country will be here, but America will cease to exist.
Unmarked Federal Agents. Acting unknown to the local elected governance. This is BS
@Kathy Burns
All Republicans are compulsive liars.
There are no exceptions to that rule.
NONE
“This is what happened in NAZI-Germany in the 1930ths.” -@Frans van Mook
Correct.
Welcome to the Anti-Fascist movement.
Antifa.
I’ve been saying that all along. The Oregon police should arrest these “goon squads” for kidnapping. If they resist call out the national guard. Let Trump bail them out.
More like SS.
@Vendicar Kahn He’s finally found his Reichstag Fire.
When he gets booted out in November, it will be like the overthrow of an American Saddam Hussain. With a few Russian mercenaries thrown in
@Vendicar Kahn
why??? So you non producing tatoo people can still burn and loot???? Buy more piercings instead of feeding your best black buds.
@Kathy Burns He will get dragged into the streets if he doesn’t leave like the nice little coward he is.
@istast alright let’s get this straight trump’s secret police force is probably burning streets. Watch *”The Hate You Give”* if you still have trouble understanding. Trump is trying to stop a civil rights movement, many White Supremacists and Trump supporters try to make riots break out. Go zoom with your e-learning teacher you don’t want to be late!
@Josiah Williams only wanna be dictators have a secret police force, that gass peaceful protesters, knock down old men, an leave lying in a pool of blood. This behaviour from a leader in the US is new to us, but old news to fascist countries, which is what bunker boy is trying to do to the US
It was never like this under Obama Biden, the US was a world leader then, Obama Biden rebuilt the country from a Republican basket case to a healthy wealthy country. What I see now under Bunker boy is people getting sick an dying from Covid 19 an a country in ruins
@istast – Burning & looting is what Trump and the Republicans have done to AmeriKKKa.
Trump is creating his SS shock troops. We are in the same place as early 1930s Germany.
The wartime President is attempting to invade the suburbs. This should never occur in a free, democratic nation.
Wake up America.
@Vendicar Kahn Racist blacks like you are ignorant.
@Sean Breen You Democrats are the terrorists who bomb churches and synagogues.
The Country doesn’t look free to me.
“President Obama’s action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law,” said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director
Im wondering who the targets were in the crowd.
Portland is a Trump trial balloon, if there isn’t massive pushback there will be martial law unleased in ALL liberal cities & states.
Overreaction? It’s overreach. Using military against civilians is unconstitutional. There was no chaos in OR besides GOPs efforts that made COVID worse..
@GreenIdLady 1 so if the rioters come to your house and and spray paint your house and car, you are ok with that huh?
These are terrorists defined in patriot act. Section 802 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Pub. L. No. 107-52) expanded the definition of terrorism to cover “”domestic,”” as opposed to international, terrorism. A person engages in domestic terrorism if they do an act “dangerous to human life” that is a violation of the criminal laws of a state or the United States, if the act appears to be intended to: (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping
“President Obama’s action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law,” said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director
Exactly Anthony, Trump is the only source of Kaos.
@k s trump is only source of non insanity. If you think these criminals roaming streets are not chaos get some mental help.
These are fascist, banana republic tactics.
Yes it can and it IS happening here!
ome wise people say that killing Trump is a form of self-defense if you believe him being alive will result in your death. Maybe.
This is a test. If he doesn’t suffer extreme pushback from all corners, this will happen in blue cities all across the country. Just in time for Election Day.
Time to hit the streets people.
This disabled grandmother is headed for the streets this weekend. This tyrrany cannot stand.
Won’t happen. Liberals are too lazy and stupid to do that.
Just smoke some more dope and the Republican problem will just go away.
GreenIdLady 1 Good on you!
Not only will it apply across your nation as nobody strongly opposes these people, but they will begin to torture protesters. This is how they do it in other totalitarian regimes, first they simply detain them and then release the protesters without any contrast, then torture them after detention and finally make them disappear. Never heard of the DESAPARECIDOS refers to people who were arrested for political reasons, or even simply accused of having carried out “anti government” activities by the police of the Argentine, Chilean and other Latin American military regimes, and of whom they were lost following the tracks.
Typical of the phenomenon of desaparecidos was the secrecy with which government forces operated; the arrests and seizures often took place at night and generally without witnesses, as well as everything that followed the arrest remained secret: the authorities did not provide the family with news of the arrests and the charges themselves were usually very vague; of the majority of the desaparecidos nothing was actually known and only after the fall of the military regime and the return to democracy, with the publication of the report “Nunca más” (never again), which allowed the reconstruction of a part of the events and fate of a number of “missing persons”, it was possible to know that many of them were detained in concentration camps and clandestine detention centers, tortured and finally secretly murdered, with the concealment of corpses in mass graves or thrown into the Atlantic Ocean or in Rio de la Plata with the so-called “death flights”.
Your President Trump is racist (everyone knows that), especially against brown people of the Latin American community. Several times he has expressed his sympathy for his German origins (referring to Nazism). It makes me laugh that he wants to show himself as strong as a Nazi and yet the tactics he is using are more than similar to those of characters belonging to Latin American politics.
@Vendicar Kahn Trump is a Liberal what do you mean? Have you ever seen secret federal agents under a impeached President ruin cities block by block?
AMERICA WITH ONE VOICE WE MUST REMOVE TRUMP!😠😠😠
Are you sure democrats passed this. “President Obama’s action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law,” said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director
And the party of libertarians and their followers say literally NOTHING, but support it. smh. Brownshirts.