Send all your healing thoughts to the BIPOC people of Portland and allies who have been demonstrating daily since George Floyd’s murder who are being targeted by tRump’s storm troopers over the vociferous objections of Oregon elected officials. My friend and neighbor who is an ER doc and also a Multnomah County Commissioner was tear gassed last night along with others.
After Trump's continued inaction on issues such as the Russians' bounty, Black Lives Matter, and COVID-19, David is voting blue this November for the first time ever.
"There's not a single thing that this man has done to better this nation. At all." pic.twitter.com/pjEuw2Khut
— Republican Voters Against Trump (@RVAT2020) July 19, 2020
Terrible tragedy – and Judge Salas was assigned the civil case suing DEUTSCHE BANK over relations to JEFFREY EPSTEIN only four days ago. 😳🔥 https://t.co/fh2mGPNROS
The Judge was just assigned to the trump Deutsche bank case Two Deutsche bank exec's died from "suicide " this year Justice kennedy was forced into retirement because his son was involved in trump Deutsche bank loans Trump loans co signed by Russian oligarchs
BTW, that deployment of ‘little green men’ in Portland last week was a DRILL. In the run up to 3 Nov it will be called by a different name – one America has no organized peaceful or otherwise capacity to resist.
"I have a lot of physical damage from the military. So, I’m not made of steel at all. They could have killed me last night, as my ex-wife and daughter have reminded me 45 times this morning," @Tazerface16 told @JenDowlingKoin6https://t.co/DH75AKTCNf
Portland protests: Navy veteran speaks out after video of federal officers beating him goes viral
“I stood my ground at that point and just stayed there … I did nothing provocative. They just started wailing on me with batons, and I let them,” https://t.co/y8NQH0RpXY
The man who’s being called “Captain Portland” after stoically absorbing a beating last night by Federal officers is a 53-year-old Navy veteran named Chris David.
The former Navy CO wanted a word with them about their oath. They broke his hand in 2 places. https://t.co/whzbWRWvTZ
I would really, really, really like to thank Tav. She's my street medic angel who pulled me out of the park and took me to safety when I couldn't see anything anymore. She stayed with me the whole time and then her and her friends drove me around to find an ambulance.
I'm a little bit confused. Is it Infrastructure Week? Or Blame Everybody But Me Week? Or Still Assaulting Americans So I Can Hold Somebody's Bible For The Camera Week? Or Ivanka Is Going To Pose For You For Free Week? Or I'll Get Back To You In Two Weeks Week?
Sometimes we take things for granted…his story…was our story…his story could not be distorted or compromised…as so much of our story has been…i just feel that some thing is missing…i know we talk about the protesters of the day…and just as when Congressman Lewis was young we did not know that he would become the titan that he became….who among us now will become that titan of tomorrow..Time has a away of increasing the value and giving perspective….
51 years ago today, Neil Armstrong and @TheRealBuzz became the first humans to walk on a celestial body outside the Earth. With @AstroMCollins in orbit, these three heroes showed that limits can be pushed, obstacles can be overcome, and that dreams can indeed, become a reality. pic.twitter.com/Q148iSteWT
— Laurence Tognetti, MSc 🔭🚀👽 (@ET_Exists) July 20, 2020
0 knocks. 1 door busted in with a battering ram. 8 gunshot wounds. 1 dead black woman… fast forward… 91 days. 1 falsified police report released. "No injuries." "No forced entry." 0 charges filed. Y'all tired yet? #BreonnaTaylor#SayHerName
tRump told us about Russian meddling and election fraud during the 2016 campaign and he was not taken seriously. We were outraged but not too concerned when he indicated going after his enemies.
Now we’ve had 3-1/2 years to experience tRump…enough to know not to discount things he says, no matter how outrageous it sounds.
So I am *very* concerned when he talks about voter fraud and mail-in ballot fraud. It’s not projecting. I believe he has something in the works. I am *very* concerned about him indicating that he may not accept the outcome of the election *when* he loses. He won’t. I am *very* afraid with his federal troops in unmarked uniforms kidnapping protesters. To me, he is showing us how he plans to disrupt the elections and the transition to a new administration.
Voting in overwhelming numbers will go a long way in successfully removing tRump from office. But how can we deal with the corrupt and dangerous behavior while he is in office and has the “power” to get away with it…especially without the oversight from Congress and firing the IG’s whose job it is to investigate this behavior.
Remembering #KatherineJohnson🚀🌖 She loved #math. Early in her career, she was called a “computer.” She helped @NASA put an astronaut into orbit around Earth Then she helped put Neil and Buzz on the Moon. pic.twitter.com/RwFPgirb8V
Pelosi on John Lewis’ memorial services: “Rev. Vivian’s services will be held on Thursday. Out of respect for Rev. Vivian, the Lewis family wants to wait until after his services to announce their plans for John’s farewell.” pic.twitter.com/QCBIZoF47K
Great to see @Google celebrating people from diverse backgrounds. Today it’s astrophysicist Dilhan Eryurt who studied the properties & evolution of the sun & was critical to Apollo 11 mission. She overcame race & gender barriers & was the only woman @NASA Goddard Inst. #STEMpic.twitter.com/UMbZCGs2Ya
Baby Girl was just waiting for that beat to drop. WHOLE room took notice. And that’s when she turned 90 degrees so she could SERVE front and center. I need the rest of this video! https://t.co/fCExvLh2vC
Gov. Cuomo says he is going to Savannah, GA today as part of an effort to return the favors of other states who assisted when NY was at the height of its COVID peak
Hope you weren’t planning on going to the Bahamas.
The Bahamas plans to close its borders to most international visitors, including those from the U.S. As part of the ban, flights and cruise ships from the U.S. will no longer be allowed into the Bahamas, Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said. https://t.co/imK3JJnmMR
You have to start with Trump's malfeasance and conspiracy-mongering on #COVIDー19, culminating in his order to slow down testing (he told us he wasn’t kidding) and the immoral strategy of now just ignoring mass death. via @MichiganAdvancehttps://t.co/scNs7Rb57G
Republicans believe that they should be protected by the law but not bound by it, and that everyone else should be bound by the law but not protected by it.
They all need to be removed from public office, right down to the lowliest clerk.
Have a safe flight✈️ Governor Cuomo! You never cease to amaze me! You're a true leader and "helper!" Fred Rogers would be so proud of you, helping Savannah today with your supplies and knowledge!! #Georgia
Our kids shouldn’t be collateral damage for @GovParsonMO’s re-election campaign. Even if kids aren’t hospitalized from COVID-19, they will spread it to teachers, parents, grandparents, and others who are at greater risk. This isn’t the leadership Missouri families deserve. pic.twitter.com/lt7tKZm0sl
Last piece of Mary Trump interview: When Mary spoke to her aunt MaryAnn
(who gave up her judgeship) before the 2016 election: “He’s a clown. This will never happen.”
His baseless reputation outside of the family…”so far-fetched…he was nothing he ever claimed to be.”
“Mary L. Trump, niece of Donald Trump and author of “Too Much and Never Enough,”
talks with Rachel Maddow about the low regard she and some other family members had for Donald Trump,
and their surprise that so many people believed” (his fake public persona).
See: (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/some-family-members-surprised-voters-believed-donald-trump-image-87912517641)
This point. Please. This is not negligence. Not six months in. Not after 140,000 dead and the experience of the world to draw from. This is deliberate, purposeful…murder. Death by data suppression. Sacrificing tens of thousands to one bad man's personal ambitions. https://t.co/1Y3gt6WbAq
REV SHARPTON: “The way to teach. America that Black Lives Matter is to teach it to each other first.”
Rev. Al Sharpton to Ali Velshi: “on the importance of Minneapolis officials declaring racism a public health emergency, why the Black Lives Matter movement should focus on fighting to end gun violence in addition to police brutality and the progress that the movement is making six years after Eric Garner’s death:
“If you believe in what you’re doing… it will take place and you will be victorious.””
—includes Trump’s callous disregard for Black lives.
Dr. Vivek Murthy, Fmr. Surgeon General on United States COVID-19 failure:
“This is the wrong way for America to be exceptional. We do, in fact, know how to take on pandemics.
Even though this is a unique one, we have handled other outbreaks in the past.”
Trump, insanely ignorant 20,000-lie fascist in the WH:
““We very much quelled it. Not hard to do if you know what you’re doing.”
"What’s happening in San Francisco now, and has for so many years, is you have a progressive movement made up of people who are mostly white and feel that they know what’s in the best interest of Black people," https://t.co/XdTM9TDxPi
Uncropped. Opening of the @NMAAHC in 2016. This version, never published, is to honor the late @repjohnlewis at left. First Lady Michelle Obama hugs former President George W. Bush. Former First Lady Laura Bush and President Barack Obama are also finally included! @CCP_UArizonapic.twitter.com/GE8pxfNExr
I was worried that not enough Black people have their passports to get out of here if we need to. I wasn’t prepared for the fact that a growing number of countries will no longer accept Americans in their borders. Damn. 🤦🏾♀️
— Lurie Daniel Favors (@AfroStateOfMind) July 20, 2020
Funny you mention passports, when I first started dating my future wife she suggested that I get a passport seeing that she was from Jamaica. At the time I was like what do I need a passport for, it never dawned on me that I needed one. My world was wide but it didn’t include a passport. So one day after we got married she took me down to the local government center to start the process of getting a passport. I remember vividly taking the picture, about a month later the passport arrived in the mail. I must have sat on our couch for two hours inspecting every inch of it, I felt so proud. This woman who I fell in love with, thought I was important enough for me to get a passport. It was one of the few times in my life that I thought that I mattered. I am so lucky to have married a strong woman, and I’m lucky in that I’ve always been around strong women. To be honest most times they’ve been the strongest people in the room.
❤️ I have to agree with you there. Strong women need to be in charge…. things are moving slowly, but we’re getting there. Nice that men like you welcome strong women and appreciate our goodness and that you aren’t threatened. We like that:)
My ex couldn’t handle being married to a strong woman. High school sweethearts; joined USMC together, plan was he’d make it a career, I’d serve one tour then finish college and law school; we had a friendly divorce after two years; he left the USMC after his first tour and has been adrift since. He’s watching me live my best and at 65, his biggest regret is not appreciating what we had and sticking to “the plan…” We would have been celebrating our 45th this coming November.
Yep, same here, my wife went to college and got her degree. We’ve had 23 wonderful years of happy marriage. I don’t understand guys that don’t like strong women or a woman that makes more than them. Of course my wife makes more than me, why would I be upset about that. She worked hard to get into a position to do that. We joke that next year when I retire I’m going to be a house husband, I can’t wait.
On July 1st there were 50,000 new coronavirus cases in one day.
After 16 days up to 75,000. Probably be at 100,000 by end of July.
LAURIE GARRETT, Pulitzer Prize winning science reporter to Velshi:
“And I have unfortunately said that we were going to reach 200,000 dead Americans by Labor Day.”
“Yale University did a survey of all cases in the United States, from early March through the end of May and
“estimated they were under-reported by 30%, the deaths were.”
“So if you do that Math to our current total, and allow for 30% under-reporting,”
“we are already at 180K Americans who have lost their lives, due to this virus and the incompetence of our response to it.”
“based on testing hundreds of people over a long period of time, here in New York done at NYU, just published:
The highest viral load in your body is when you have no symptoms at all. That person who is wandering around saying ‘what’s the big deal’ is actually shedding virus actively. And has so much virus in their body that theirimmune system is bewildered, it is overwhelmed. This is science.”
Summary:
-Probably 200,000 dead by Labor Day,
-Deaths estimated under-reported by 30%,
-So we are probably already at 180,000 who have lost their lives to COVID-19.
-The highest viral load in your body is when you have No symptoms.
hi…iimo we’re thirsty for the truth whatever it is.
And the more public it is the safer we are.
Especially when Trump is funeling this data away from CDC to himself.
“HUD Rule Would Dismantle Protections for Homeless Transgender People”
“Homeless shelters would have the right to turn away transgender people from single-sex facilities that correspond to their gender identity.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/us/politics/hud-transgender.html)
—Trump-Miller trying it out with the most vulnerable first.
Here are current #2020census response rates. Please get your census forms in. Funding for your schools, public utilities, parks, city, county, state and federal services are based on #census data. We need a fair and accurate count. #becounted@faircounthttps://t.co/FS3D4PHwTY
Since Tuesday in Portland:
Peaceful protestors are being taken off the streets by unidentified agents, put into unmarked cars, and driven off without explanation. Portland’s leaders are playing hell. The Mayor demanding these unidentified militarized officers be removed, the Governor calling it a “blatant abuse of power”. And the U.S. Attorney for Oregon ready to investigate. Frank Figliuzzi (former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, F.B.I.) speaking to Nicole Wallace, says this is happening under the guise of PACT (since July 1st) in the name of protecting monuments and buildings. Whereby there is authority to arrest locally if a crime is witnessed. But how can abducting someone, placing them in unmarked cars, taking them to an undetermined building, be lawful? The person is not officially under arrest and is reportedly freed after they invoke their rights…
Figliuzzi:
“We are still under a National Emergency Declaration for the COVID-19 virus.
And I fear that we are going to see exploitation of that until that declaration ends. And there is no sign that that declaration is ending soon.”
Figliuzzi:
“In my 25 years in federal law enforcement,
I’ve never seen deployment of federal resources in these kinds of circumstances without a request or at least an acknowledgement and concurrence of local county and state authorities. In fact we had the opposite here. We even have law enforcement locally and county wide saying ‘we were just about to get into a productive dialogue with these protestors. You have UNDERMINED the success and progress we were making to de-escalate this, and you’re pouring fuel on the fire.’ So if you want to talk about violence, let’s talk about federal agents who are actually instigating and provoking the potential of violence because of the way they are doing this. Not requested by local state or county. And then coming in like stormtroopers trying to beat back people who aren’t near the federal building, or the federal courthouse.
What we’ve got here Nicole, with the presence of the Interim or Acting Director of DHS, the Acting Secretary of DHS, the Director of CBP literally on the ground in Portland. We have political theater occurring here. This is about creating a sense of siege and anarchy where one may not actually exist.”
NEW EPISODE: @KamalaHarris joins to discuss her new bill to stop evictions during this outbreak, how to deal with Bill Barr, and how hard she’d take on the GOP if selected as Biden’s VP.https://t.co/K4hgTgQoY5
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen podcast (@NoLieWithBTC) July 20, 2020
Portland’s Governor needs to call up the National Guard to PROTECT the protestors. This needs to be stopped before it spreads.
Understand, in all federal agencies combined, he does not have enough manpower to police all of the cities. DOD will not be a player this time. EXPECT that he will deputize militias to bulk up end-strength; that's possible reason for unmarked uniforms.
— The UnRuley Retired Marine (@TheUnruley) July 20, 2020
Winn Dixie says fuck you and your kids. We’d rather keep the jerks from being uncomfortable for a few minutes.
(COMMERCIAL) "We here @WinnDixie know you can shop for a COVID-19 infection just about anywhere—but we think we're making the best case of any supermarket in America that we'll always have it in stock and it will always be conveniently located all over any one of our fine stores" https://t.co/OhqmAg9idy
Georgia Democrats have selected state Sen. Nikema Williams to replace the late Rep. John Lewis on the ballot in November. (via @AP) pic.twitter.com/eWEeAJOPs4
Georgia Democrats have selected state Sen. Nikema Williams to replace the late Rep. John Lewis on the ballot in November. (via @AP) pic.twitter.com/eWEeAJOPs4
BREAKING: Suspect in shooting of judge's family found dead of apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, multiple law enforcement sources tell @ABC News.
The deceased suspect was an attorney who had a case before Judge Salas in 2015, sources say. https://t.co/RaYCDRhFro
Congratulations to my dear friend and @GeorgiaDemocrat Chair, Senator @NikemaWilliams on her nomination as the CD-5 candidate to represent Democrats on the ballot in November.
Her fight for the oppressed, the left-behind and the strivers will continue to serve Georgia well. pic.twitter.com/qgs6HlQkzK
The Obama Diary 
Send all your healing thoughts to the BIPOC people of Portland and allies who have been demonstrating daily since George Floyd’s murder who are being targeted by tRump’s storm troopers over the vociferous objections of Oregon elected officials. My friend and neighbor who is an ER doc and also a Multnomah County Commissioner was tear gassed last night along with others.
“Tear gas has been banned in warfare. Why do police still use it?”
(https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-07-31/tear-gas-has-been-banned-warfare-why-do-police-still-use-it)
Thank you for another thoughtful post, Nerdy!
Yay!!!
‘Hit job’ …
Any question how far Trump and Putin will go ….
We don’t have a President, we have a mob boss.
Anyone tracking Putin since 1999 know precisely what they’ve been seeing unfold since Trump declared his candidacy.
Goodnight TOD.
Captain Chris David is a retired US Navy Officer and US Navy Academy graduate.
Apparently, this is his twitter account …
UGH!
i woke up this morning…feeling the loss of Congressman Lewis….but remembering his words to not have despair
I think it will be a long time before we really process the depth of this loss. He was a titan.
Sometimes we take things for granted…his story…was our story…his story could not be distorted or compromised…as so much of our story has been…i just feel that some thing is missing…i know we talk about the protesters of the day…and just as when Congressman Lewis was young we did not know that he would become the titan that he became….who among us now will become that titan of tomorrow..Time has a away of increasing the value and giving perspective….
Good Morning! Today in history 🚀🌗
My son was an infant, and I wrote about watching it on TV in his baby book! Shared history, for sure, without our having to leave the living room. 🙂
Aw, that’s lovely! Does one of you still have the book?
My son passed away a couple of years ago, and I definitely still have the baby book! 🙂 ❤
Oh I’m so sorry. 😞♥️
Thank you, dear one. ❤
You are the sweetest.
No, you are the sweetest! 🙂
tRump told us about Russian meddling and election fraud during the 2016 campaign and he was not taken seriously. We were outraged but not too concerned when he indicated going after his enemies.
Now we’ve had 3-1/2 years to experience tRump…enough to know not to discount things he says, no matter how outrageous it sounds.
So I am *very* concerned when he talks about voter fraud and mail-in ballot fraud. It’s not projecting. I believe he has something in the works. I am *very* concerned about him indicating that he may not accept the outcome of the election *when* he loses. He won’t. I am *very* afraid with his federal troops in unmarked uniforms kidnapping protesters. To me, he is showing us how he plans to disrupt the elections and the transition to a new administration.
Voting in overwhelming numbers will go a long way in successfully removing tRump from office. But how can we deal with the corrupt and dangerous behavior while he is in office and has the “power” to get away with it…especially without the oversight from Congress and firing the IG’s whose job it is to investigate this behavior.
Also 🌌🌃✨💫
😍👏🏾😍👏🏾😍👏🏾
Also here: https://www.ny.gov/
Hope you weren’t planning on going to the Bahamas.
Morning everyone
Exactly
THIS!!!! 👆🏾
Has to be fumigated out of there…😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
FILL OUT YOUR CENSUS!!
Because little kids can’t vote for them or give them money, so fuck them. Who cares! Get over it!
Joy tonight and look who’s coming on:)
She’s got Joe and Hillary on her first night. Excellent start! 👏🏾
Last piece of Mary Trump interview: When Mary spoke to her aunt MaryAnn
(who gave up her judgeship) before the 2016 election: “He’s a clown. This will never happen.”
His baseless reputation outside of the family…”so far-fetched…he was nothing he ever claimed to be.”
“Mary L. Trump, niece of Donald Trump and author of “Too Much and Never Enough,”
talks with Rachel Maddow about the low regard she and some other family members had for Donald Trump,
and their surprise that so many people believed” (his fake public persona).
See: (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/some-family-members-surprised-voters-believed-donald-trump-image-87912517641)
and so do all who support him
“Captain Portland” is the real deal ….
Oh my goodness. We could sure use more big hearts like his.
great idea, the stars of all kinds are aligning.
REV SHARPTON: “The way to teach. America that Black Lives Matter is to teach it to each other first.”
Rev. Al Sharpton to Ali Velshi: “on the importance of Minneapolis officials declaring racism a public health emergency, why the Black Lives Matter movement should focus on fighting to end gun violence in addition to police brutality and the progress that the movement is making six years after Eric Garner’s death:
“If you believe in what you’re doing… it will take place and you will be victorious.””
—includes Trump’s callous disregard for Black lives.
Dr. Vivek Murthy, Fmr. Surgeon General on United States COVID-19 failure:
“This is the wrong way for America to be exceptional. We do, in fact, know how to take on pandemics.
Even though this is a unique one, we have handled other outbreaks in the past.”
Trump, insanely ignorant 20,000-lie fascist in the WH:
““We very much quelled it. Not hard to do if you know what you’re doing.”
Funny you mention passports, when I first started dating my future wife she suggested that I get a passport seeing that she was from Jamaica. At the time I was like what do I need a passport for, it never dawned on me that I needed one. My world was wide but it didn’t include a passport. So one day after we got married she took me down to the local government center to start the process of getting a passport. I remember vividly taking the picture, about a month later the passport arrived in the mail. I must have sat on our couch for two hours inspecting every inch of it, I felt so proud. This woman who I fell in love with, thought I was important enough for me to get a passport. It was one of the few times in my life that I thought that I mattered. I am so lucky to have married a strong woman, and I’m lucky in that I’ve always been around strong women. To be honest most times they’ve been the strongest people in the room.
❤️ I have to agree with you there. Strong women need to be in charge…. things are moving slowly, but we’re getting there. Nice that men like you welcome strong women and appreciate our goodness and that you aren’t threatened. We like that:)
You and your wife were lucky to find each other.
My ex couldn’t handle being married to a strong woman. High school sweethearts; joined USMC together, plan was he’d make it a career, I’d serve one tour then finish college and law school; we had a friendly divorce after two years; he left the USMC after his first tour and has been adrift since. He’s watching me live my best and at 65, his biggest regret is not appreciating what we had and sticking to “the plan…” We would have been celebrating our 45th this coming November.
Yep, same here, my wife went to college and got her degree. We’ve had 23 wonderful years of happy marriage. I don’t understand guys that don’t like strong women or a woman that makes more than them. Of course my wife makes more than me, why would I be upset about that. She worked hard to get into a position to do that. We joke that next year when I retire I’m going to be a house husband, I can’t wait.
Hindsight is 20/20. My ex constantly says “he wishes he knew then…”
On July 1st there were 50,000 new coronavirus cases in one day.
After 16 days up to 75,000. Probably be at 100,000 by end of July.
LAURIE GARRETT, Pulitzer Prize winning science reporter to Velshi:
“And I have unfortunately said that we were going to reach 200,000 dead Americans by Labor Day.”
“Yale University did a survey of all cases in the United States, from early March through the end of May and
“estimated they were under-reported by 30%, the deaths were.”
“So if you do that Math to our current total, and allow for 30% under-reporting,”
“we are already at 180K Americans who have lost their lives, due to this virus and the incompetence of our response to it.”
“based on testing hundreds of people over a long period of time, here in New York done at NYU, just published:
The highest viral load in your body is when you have no symptoms at all. That person who is wandering around saying ‘what’s the big deal’ is actually shedding virus actively. And has so much virus in their body that theirimmune system is bewildered, it is overwhelmed. This is science.”
Summary:
-Probably 200,000 dead by Labor Day,
-Deaths estimated under-reported by 30%,
-So we are probably already at 180,000 who have lost their lives to COVID-19.
-The highest viral load in your body is when you have No symptoms.
God help us
hi…iimo we’re thirsty for the truth whatever it is.
And the more public it is the safer we are.
Especially when Trump is funeling this data away from CDC to himself.
I agree
That’s a public servant right there!
“HUD Rule Would Dismantle Protections for Homeless Transgender People”
“Homeless shelters would have the right to turn away transgender people from single-sex facilities that correspond to their gender identity.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/us/politics/hud-transgender.html)
—Trump-Miller trying it out with the most vulnerable first.
And if they do I hope HUD is sued back to the stone age.
Here are the Census response rates for each state. JUST DO IT!!
https://2020census.gov/en/response-rates.html
Good Afternoon, TODville Global Community
🙏💪🤗😍💪🙏🥂
Since Tuesday in Portland:
Peaceful protestors are being taken off the streets by unidentified agents, put into unmarked cars, and driven off without explanation. Portland’s leaders are playing hell. The Mayor demanding these unidentified militarized officers be removed, the Governor calling it a “blatant abuse of power”. And the U.S. Attorney for Oregon ready to investigate. Frank Figliuzzi (former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, F.B.I.) speaking to Nicole Wallace, says this is happening under the guise of PACT (since July 1st) in the name of protecting monuments and buildings. Whereby there is authority to arrest locally if a crime is witnessed. But how can abducting someone, placing them in unmarked cars, taking them to an undetermined building, be lawful? The person is not officially under arrest and is reportedly freed after they invoke their rights…
Figliuzzi:
“We are still under a National Emergency Declaration for the COVID-19 virus.
And I fear that we are going to see exploitation of that until that declaration ends. And there is no sign that that declaration is ending soon.”
Figliuzzi:
“In my 25 years in federal law enforcement,
I’ve never seen deployment of federal resources in these kinds of circumstances without a request or at least an acknowledgement and concurrence of local county and state authorities. In fact we had the opposite here. We even have law enforcement locally and county wide saying ‘we were just about to get into a productive dialogue with these protestors. You have UNDERMINED the success and progress we were making to de-escalate this, and you’re pouring fuel on the fire.’ So if you want to talk about violence, let’s talk about federal agents who are actually instigating and provoking the potential of violence because of the way they are doing this. Not requested by local state or county. And then coming in like stormtroopers trying to beat back people who aren’t near the federal building, or the federal courthouse.
What we’ve got here Nicole, with the presence of the Interim or Acting Director of DHS, the Acting Secretary of DHS, the Director of CBP literally on the ground in Portland. We have political theater occurring here. This is about creating a sense of siege and anarchy where one may not actually exist.”
NB:
The peaceful protestors being abducted are not near federal buildings, courthouse or monuments.
Thus PACT is not a possible excuse.
Doing it under cover of the National Emergence Declaration for the COVID-19
= Shock doctrine.
NOW: Joe Biden speaks at Emgage Action’s virtual Million Muslim Votes Summit – https://abcnews.go.com/Live
NOW – Savannah Mayor Johnson, NY Gov. Cuomo announce partnership on COVID-19 efforts in Georgia –
https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-2
Also here: https://www.ny.gov/
Portland’s Governor needs to call up the National Guard to PROTECT the protestors. This needs to be stopped before it spreads.
Winn Dixie says fuck you and your kids. We’d rather keep the jerks from being uncomfortable for a few minutes.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/07/20/the-big-six/
We have our nominee to run for John Lewis’ seat in November – Georgia Democrats State Party Chair, State Senator Nikema Williams. Excellent choice!