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MUST-READ: David Cay Johnston: Trump Is Taking America To an Evil Place
Stunning new column from David Cay Johnston at DCReport.org:
https://www.dcreport.org/2018/07/13/trump-is-taking-america-to-an-evil-place/
Trump Is Taking America To an Evil Place
Round-Ups, Concentration Camps, What Comes Next?
Every American, including native-born whites, should be alarmed about the advancing Trump Administration plans to build mass detention facilities, which could fast be turned into concentration camps to hold opponents of Trump policies.
Abundant signs reveal Trump administration planning for mass roundups. News of these plans is out there but easily missed in the endless flurry of stories about Trump White House chaos. This story needs but has not received, focused attention from our mainstream news media, from the minority party and especially from principled Republicans.
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Our Constitution is a piece of paper. The liberties of the people depend on office holders acting with respect for it, especially federal judges and Congressional oversight. But at the end of the day, the president is commander-in-chief and the civilian bureaucracy, like all bureaucracies, does as it is told.
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There are two trends that should be noted, not to reassure us that everything will be all right, but that Trump’s incompetence limits the effectiveness of his assaults on the liberties of the people. At least for now.
Under Trump, arrests of people suspected of being in the country without permission and picked up more than 100 miles from Americans borders, are way down. Data from ICE show such arrests are just half what they were five years ago under President Obama.
Second, a majority of officers surveyed by Military Times view Trump unfavorably. That matters because if he tries to seize power we may have enough loyal American officers to prevent what happened in Rome, when the Roman Republic, through force, became an empire with one ruler at a time until Rome collapsed. (For an excellent and readable history of this see Mary Beard’s SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.)
Don’t just assume everything will be all right tomorrow. It might be. But events could also quickly take a very dark and deadly turn so long as Trump holds the reins of our federal government.
Round-Ups, Concentration Camps, What Comes Next?
Every American, including native-born whites, should be alarmed about the advancing Trump Administration plans to build mass detention facilities, which could fast be turned into concentration camps to hold opponents of Trump policies.
Abundant signs reveal Trump administration planning for mass roundups. News of these plans is out there but easily missed in the endless flurry of stories about Trump White House chaos. This story needs but has not received, focused attention from our mainstream news media, from the minority party and especially from principled Republicans.
-snip-
Our Constitution is a piece of paper. The liberties of the people depend on office holders acting with respect for it, especially federal judges and Congressional oversight. But at the end of the day, the president is commander-in-chief and the civilian bureaucracy, like all bureaucracies, does as it is told.
-snip-
There are two trends that should be noted, not to reassure us that everything will be all right, but that Trump’s incompetence limits the effectiveness of his assaults on the liberties of the people. At least for now.
Under Trump, arrests of people suspected of being in the country without permission and picked up more than 100 miles from Americans borders, are way down. Data from ICE show such arrests are just half what they were five years ago under President Obama.
Second, a majority of officers surveyed by Military Times view Trump unfavorably. That matters because if he tries to seize power we may have enough loyal American officers to prevent what happened in Rome, when the Roman Republic, through force, became an empire with one ruler at a time until Rome collapsed. (For an excellent and readable history of this see Mary Beard’s SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.)
Don’t just assume everything will be all right tomorrow. It might be. But events could also quickly take a very dark and deadly turn so long as Trump holds the reins of our federal government.
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