Meanwhile, in Chicago

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dcphx said:
There is literally a post on page 2 of this thread with a copy of that DHS tweet but apparently that was too difficult for Zen to locate.
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UNCBAdookJD said:
They were residents of the building who were raided who heard the helicopters and had agents coming in the building from the dang roof. And as a post above shows, DHS posted video celebrating the raid of one of their goons fast roping from a helicopter.
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Right, the claims about helicopters were accurate.
 
I don’t think going after national guard troops is a good look. These are guys who signed up to protect our country and would rather be anywhere else. They have no choice.

I laughed at the comment about Hegseth being upset but that is because Hegseth is so wrong.

Now if they start brutalizing protesters or infringing on the rights of citizens then that becomes a different matter.
 
Walter Cronkite( CBS ), Frank Reynolds and Howard K. Smith (ABC ), Chet Huntley and David Brinkley ( NBC ) anchored the nightly news back in the 60's and each night showed the carnage going on in the Viet Nam War.

I believe watching those horrors played a large part in turning the broader America against the war.

It is time that broader America be shown the daily horrors that Trump's Stormtroopers are perpetrating against our own people in America today.
 
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www.thebulwark.com

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.
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“… There is no crisis in Chicago that requires the National Guard. To the extent that there is civil instability in Chicago it has been caused by Trump’s surge of federal agents into the city and their lawless assault on the citizens of Chicago.

[Lists acts of violence and unduly aggressive tactics by ICE in Chicago]

… We should say what is going on here in clear and unsentimental terms:

The president instructed federal agents to use extralegal violence against both immigrants and citizens in Chicago. When the citizenry of Chicago objected to these violent acts, the president used their First Amendment demonstrations of protest as pretext to deploy the Texas National Guard into the city, so that armed soldiers from Texas could impose the president’s will on the people of Illinois.

He is setting not just the federal government against one of the states, but pitting armed soldiers from one state against the citizens of another.

… Our friend Amanda Carpenter—who is nobody’s idea of a bleeding heart—is alarmed. You should be, too.

Trump is dangerously and perversely fusing the roles of the U.S. military and domestic agencies.

…. In our nation’s history, the extraordinary federal power to override a governor has been a last resort in moments of true crisis, such as when enforcing desegregation in Little Rock or quelling an actual insurrection.

But that’s not what’s happening here. The White House is sending troops from Texas to Chicago, not to address a genuine emergency, but to override political opposition. In sending troops from red states to police blue states who object to their presence, the White House is bypassing that structure and overriding the will of the states.

…The United States cannot remain a federalist system when soldiers from one state are sent to police another state against the explicit wishes of its elected leaders and when the justification for it is a lie. . . .

Using soldiers to enforce civilian law blurs the line between the police and the military, conditioning Americans to accept armed troops on their streets as normal. It creates loyalty tests for mayors and governors, undermines the nonpolitical standing of our military, and shreds the checks and balances that protect our freedom. This is a hallmark of tyranny, which our Founders recognized clearly when the king’s soldiers patrolled the streets of colonial America, intimidated opponents of the monarchy, and suppressed their speech.
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You should read the whole thing….”
 
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We all know from personal experience (those of us old enough at least) that when we are presented with a simplistic goal that is intentionally unachievable, that we are being jerked around by idiots feeding their own political ambitions. See "Drugs, the War On" & "Terror, the War On".
 
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