Trump Continues Construction Of Compliant Force To Take Our Cities & Our Rights

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Trump's Executive Order today escalating the role of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., brings America closer to occupation of our cities by the authoritarian federal government. 

From CNN:

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday tasking his secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, with establishing “specialized units” in the National Guard that will be “specifically trained and equipped to deal with public order issues” — the clearest sign yet he intends to expand the US military’s role in domestic law enforcement activities across the country.....And he left the door open to deploying military to other cities, such as Chicago, telling reporters they are “ready to go anywhere,” with “less than 24 hours’ notice.”..It also orders Hegseth to “designate an appropriate number of each State’s trained National Guard members to be reasonably available for rapid mobilization for such purposes” and establish a standing “quick reaction reaction force that shall be “available for rapid nationwide deployment.”

This builds on previous orders that have given additional powers to police, increased the prospect of a military presence in cities & on the still-hanging threat to suspend Habeas Corpus.

There was also this from May about how ICE agents would be hired:

"No later than 60 days after the date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall supplement existing enforcement and removal operations by deputizing and contracting with State and local law enforcement officers, former Federal officers, officers and personnel within other Federal agencies, and other individuals to increase the enforcement and removal operations force of the Department of Homeland Security by no less than 20,000 officers in order to conduct an intensive campaign to remove illegal aliens who have failed to depart voluntarily." 

They are just taking whoever applies to be an ICE Agent right off the streets.

And they are also taking future city occupiers from right off the streets. 

From the New York Times about today's order:

"The order also directs a task force in Washington led by a White House adviser, Stephen Miller, to create an online portal for “Americans with law enforcement or other relevant backgrounds and experience” to apply to join federal agents in enforcing Mr. Trump’s “crime emergency” order in the District of Columbia."

Trump is building an army of compliant extremists recruited from who-knows-where to takeover our cities and to take our rights. We must be ready for the difficult days ahead. 
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