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Alexander Stannigel — hat einen Artikel geteilt:Mittwoch, 22. Juli 2020
In Portland, Oregon — eine der liberalsten, progressivsten Großstädte der USA — fordert der Bürgermeister, dass die Zentralregierung ihre Truppen bzw. «Sicherheitskräfte» abzieht, die nicht-kenntlich und ausgerüstet für einen Bürgerkrieg im Nahen Osten, durch die Stadt streifen und zufällig Leute verschwinden lassen, während deren Führung angibt, dass die lokale Polizei die Proteste gegen Polizeigewalt nicht mit Gewalt stoppt und sie deshalb nachhelfen müssen.
Der Machthaber in der fernen Hauptstadt will aufgrund des großen «Erfolges» des Einsatzes nun weitere Städte durch seine Truppen besetzen/befrieden lassen.
Normalerweise müsste doch langsam die NATO das Regime in Washington, D.C. bombardieren, um dem Land Freiheit und Demokratie zu bringen…!?
«The mayor of Portland demanded Friday that President Donald Trump remove militarized federal agents he deployed to the city after some detained people on streets far from federal property they were sent to protect. ‹Keep your troops in your own buildings, or have them leave our city,› Mayor Ted Wheeler said at a news conference. (…) [Democratic Gov. Kate] Brown's spokesman, Charles Boyle, said Friday that arresting people without probable cause is “extraordinarily concerning and a violation of their civil liberties and constitutional rights.”»
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«‹Usually when we see people in unmarked cars forcibly grab someone off the street we call it kidnapping,› said Jann Carson, interim executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon. ‹The actions of the militarized federal officers are flat-out unconstitutional and will not go unanswered.› (…) One video showed two people in helmets and green camouflage with ‹police› patches grabbing a person on the sidewalk, handcuffing them and taking them into an unmarked vehicle. ‹Who are you?› someone asks the pair, who do not respond. At least some of the federal officers belong to the Department of Homeland Security.»
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«In another case, Mark Pettibone, 29, said a minivan rolled up to him around 2 a.m. Wednesday and four or five people got out ‹looking like they were deployed to a Middle Eastern war.› Pettibone told The Associated Press he got to his knees as the group approached. They dragged him into the van without identifying themselves or responding to his questions and pulled his beanie over his eyes so he couldn't see, he said. ‹I figured I was just going to disappear for an indefinite amount of time,› Pettibone said. (…) After he asked for a lawyer, Pettibone was allowed to leave.»
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«‹Authoritarian governments, not democratic republics, send unmarked authorities after protesters,› Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley said in a tweet. (…) ‹It’s painfully clear this administration is focused purely on escalating violence without answering my repeated requests for why this expeditionary force is in Portland and under what constitutional authority,› Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden said.»
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«On Thursday night, federal officers deployed tear gas and fired non-lethal rounds into a crowd of protesters. [Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad] Wolf visited Portland on Thursday and called the demonstrators, who are protesting racism and police brutality, ‹violent anarchists.› Wolf blamed state and city authorities for not putting an end to the protests. (…) The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon on Friday added the federal government to a lawsuit it filed earlier to halt the use of crowd control measures, including tear gas and rubber bullets, against journalists and legal observers at protests in Portland.»