Unidentified federal agents are kidnapping and detaining protesters in Portland, Oregon while failing to disclose what agency they are with. It’s a frightening situation that has former GOP strategist Steve Schmidt calling on Governor Kate Brown to arrest President Donald Trump’s secret police.
Law enforcement officers, regardless of whether they are federal, state or local, are supposed to be identifiable. They are supposed to have visible badges and must show or announce what department or agency they work for. In addition, police must read people their rights and cannot just kidnap people off the street and illegally detain them.
But secret police are roaming the streets of Portland doing exactly that and no one knows who they work for. But it’s pretty clear they are secret police who work for Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr because they do not appear to be state or local law enforcement.
The United States should not have secret police. That’s what authoritarian nations do. But Trump and Barr have unleashed their own secret police to terrorize the citizens of an American city, presumably as a test to see if such a practice can be expanded across the country.
This cannot be allowed to happen, which is why Schmidt is calling upon Governor Brown to bring in the National Guard to arrest them.
Portland Oregon. The Governor of Oregon should deploy the State Police and the National Guard to arrest on site any heavily armed Paramilitary forces who are operating without ID’s, Badges and snatching Americans off of the street and stuffing them into unmarked vehicles. 1
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) July 17, 2020
We live in the UNITED STATES of AMERICA. We are watching a Secret Police forming before our eyes and it is both an abomination and unacceptable. What agencies are these men with? What is their chain of command? What is their jurisdiction? Barr is Attorney General, not the (2)
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) July 17, 2020
Interior Minister of some thugocracy. Respectfully, where is the ACLU? Where is the outrage of the Democratic House Members that control the purse strings of whatever agency these men belong to? Where is the oversight? Why isn’t this issue being reported out on the front page
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) July 17, 2020
of national news organizations including one that has attached itself to the phrase “Democracy dies in Darkness”? BTW, it certainly does when Federal snatch and grabs by “little green men” draw not so much a whimper of outrage. Why isn’t this footage in the A block of every
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) July 17, 2020
Newscast in America? What is happening here? The fact that Federal Law Enforcement Officers are clad head to toe in camouflaged Military tactical uniforms is outrageous. This is utterly unacceptable in this country. We must not stand for this. We are witnessing an assault on
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) July 17, 2020
Liberty, freedom and our Comstirutionally protected rights. Enough already. Call your member of Congress and demand answers. Who are these men?
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) July 17, 2020
What is happening in Portland is an absolute travesty that undermines the Constitution and democracy. Trump and Barr are copying Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia by forming their own secret police. Governors should be fighting back with every tool at their command, even if it means calling up the National Guard to sweep them out of the state by any means necessary.
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