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The Revolution Continues's avatar

"...Watch both parties in Congress follow their memo from AIPAC and snap into line to support Trump’s war crime and confirm who is really running things."

Exactly. Hopefully it'll wake a few more people up to the fact how members of the duopoly work only for their masters, their biggest donors, and not us ordinary folks.

Thanks for all the good tips to stay safe at protests. See you in the streets!

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Be safe, be strong.

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Yasmine Nasser-rafi's avatar

Mark, thank you for all your important posts. But there is something that is not true about police "impersonations". I know something about that: they are actually fake police with fake police cars, but are on law enforcement payroll. The illegitimate Corporate government has two kinds of law enforcement. One legitimate, the other in the shadows running parallel to it. They have a system parallel runs. Also telecommunications corporations like ATT run similar parallel situations. The dispatch decided who to send.

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Mark Taylor's avatar

Thanks, Yasmine. Yes, there is a range of "law" enforcement in the country with corporate contractors, consultants and goons. There is also an unofficial network of what I would call militias who will act like Hitler's Brown Shirts. In my area there has been a rise in big noisy trucks displaying large American flags flapping away as they gun their noisy, exhaust-belching engines down the street. I don't know for sure, but suspect it's part of some such unofficial group.

The Guardian had a story on such a group yesterday: "‘Wolves in sheep’s clothing’: how a neo-Nazi cell infiltrated a martial arts school in Tennessee" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/21/tennessee-neo-nazi-martial-arts

The media really hasn't done much to look into all the "deputies" being used by the ICE Gestapo. Who are they? Where do they come from? What is their training? Why do many have far right/Nazi tattoos?

Legitimate law enforcement and attorney generals and sitrict attorneys should be alarmed by all of this because having such poison in the law enforcement ranks absolutely degrades any community trust in law enforcement and without a basic level of community trust , legitimate officers are put at risk. But, again, fascism is not based upon trust, it's all about brute force and intimidation.

But -- as history has shown -- that only works so long.

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Yasmine Nasser-rafi's avatar

The problem is that when you call 911 to ask for validation, you are calling the source for recruitment of the unofficial network!!!!!?

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Mark Taylor's avatar

These days, nothing is completely trustworthy. The undermining of public trust (legitimacy) in law enforcement ... along with the rest of civic institutions.

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Baz's avatar

Trump has achieved what other presidents could only dream of - making America a totally untrustworthy entity globally in any capacity diplomatic or otherwise.

With peacemaker Trump doing an excellent job of stopping all wars you have to ask ‘who is fooling who?’

You don’t have to be an expert to see this will escalate.

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