the biggest police force in the US
Guardian 7/09/25
Trump’s budget bill is creating a colossus
with more resources than many national militaries
"As Leah Greenberg, co-chair of the progressive activist group Indivisible, put it on Twitter/X: “They are just coming right out and saying they want an exponential increase in $$$ so they can build their own personal Gestapo.”
(Thats the truth, they aren't even hiding it anymore.)
"The jurisdiction of the federal police force that this budget will finance promises to stretch far beyond immigration; its ambitions will outstrip even the deportation of every one of the nearly 48 million immigrants in the country, including the three-quarters of them who are citizens, green-card holders or have temporary visas.
"The colossal buildup of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) will create the largest domestic police force in the US; its resources will be greater than those of every federal surveillance and carceral agency combined; it will employ more agents than the FBI. Ice will be bigger than the military of many countries. When it runs out of brown and Black people to deport, Ice – perhaps under another name – will be left with the authority and capability to surveil, seize and disappear anyone the administration (Or any other) considers undesirable."
"Ice will receive $45bn for immigrant detention, to be spent over four years – more than the Obama, Biden and first Trump administrations combined."
"Dipping into a pot totaling $170bn, the Department of Homeland Security intends to hire 10,000 new Ice agents, bringing the total to 30,000, as well as 8,500 border patrol agents. For comparison, the FBI has about 23,700 employees, including 10,000 special agents."
"Observed as from a Google satellite, the outlines of a wide-ranging, increasingly coherent police state come into focus. The boundaries between federal and local, military operations and civilian law enforcement are smudged."
(That's what fascist do yo.)
"Well they wont come get me Andrew."
Yeah...right...gotcha.
Thursday, March 6, 2025
02/25/25
IT SHOULD HAVE WOKE YOU UP
RIGHT THEN.
IT WAS A FOREBODING SIGN.
(The link on the original post went to The new Republic,
this goes to Yahoo but is the same article.
I dont pay or create accounts to read the content I do.
Just dont/wont.)
"Private, unidentified security personnel
dragged a woman out of the event.
It raises questions not just about tolerance for dissent
but about who gets deputized to do what."
(Exactly what it was supposed to do.)
"...when a group of unmarked security..."
"A man dressed in a black jacket, olive pants, and an earbud or earpiece stepped into the row and grabbed Borrenpohl’s wrist. She yanked it back. He went for her hands again. She pointed at the man looming over her, yelling out, “This man is assaulting me.” The man stepped further into the aisle, joined by a second in identical attire. “Is this your deputy?” she yelled. “Sheriff Norris, is this your deputy?” If the men were working for the sheriff, they weren’t showing any insignia. Their faces were blank. “Who the fuck are these men?” Borrenpohl yelled again. As the two men grappled her, some in the audience began to cheer, while others took up the woman’s demand that the men identify themselves. A third man in the same jacket and pants arrived, holding a bunch of plastic zipcuffs. They got Teresa Borrenpohl on her stomach, kneeling over her. Then they dragged her out of the room."
(So it aint all:
"Oh those crazy dems
making all those allegations against Trump."
This shit is real.
It is here.
And it is right now.)
And its gotten worse.
Elected officials
in California and New York
have since
had much the same treatment.
It's not going to stop.
EVER.
Snowballs dont ever roll back uphill,
no matter how bad we want them to.
"Who were the men who accosted Teresa Borrenpohl, and what was the local sheriff doing with them? Much remains murky,
but the Coeur d’Alene/Post Falls Press has found some answers. The unmarked security force were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management, the Press reported, but Sheriff Norris “claimed no knowledge of the security personnel or who hired them.” LEAR did not respond to a request for comment for this piece. The man who founded and runs the group is Paul Trouette, who was seen in Coeur d’Alene several months ago at a City Council meeting, opposing a local ordinance that would have required that private security outfits more clearly identify themselves. At the time, the Kootenai Journal reported, Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White “made references to situations in which security personnel were confused with law enforcement officers, or acted as if they were law enforcement officers, within the last year in Coeur d’Alene.”
"LEAR has operated in California going back at least to 2012, with Trouette running what “looks like a military assault force,” as Time magazine observed in 2014. “Clad in body armor and camouflage and carrying AR-15 rifles, they creep through the trees toward their target: one of the illegal marijuana gardens dotting Mendocino County.” More recently, LEAR seems to have turned up pro bono and perhaps uninvited to clear an encampment where unhoused people were living near Ackman Creek in Mendocino County. After a local news outlet reported on Paul Trouette doing security at the cleanup, a county agency involved in the effort said, “It is unclear to us who contacted Lear.”
"The town hall in Coeur d’Alene was not the first time Trouette and other LEAR security forces have been deployed against community activists. A few years back, they were working to surveil anti-logging tree sits and protests in the Jackson Demonstration State Forest in California."
"In one incident outside a logging gate, according to local public radio outlet KZYX, about 20 minutes after Paul Trouette left the site, a “large black truck with no license places” arrived and pulled alongside a Native Hawaiian activist and singer who was part of the effort to defend the site from logging. As a lawyer working with one of the groups wrote, “They didn’t say who they were, they didn’t say we’re with the police, or we’re with Cal Fire. They just came up to her and said, you need to leave. And when she said that she wouldn’t, they responded by reaching into their pocket and throwing bullet casings at her face and saying, you know, it’s dangerous in here. And I think any reasonable person would feel that that was a death threat.”
"Only after the three men from LEAR dragged Teresa Borrenpohl into the hallway outside the auditorium on Saturday did Coeur d’Alene police arrive and intervene, at first seemingly unaware of who the LEAR guys were, asking if they were with the sheriff."
"Late on Monday, the Coeur d’Alene police announced that LEAR’s license to operate in the city was now revoked due to the incident. Police also said that LEAR had been hired by the town hall organizers.
(Who were they?)
Sheriff Norris has maintained that the firm’s actions were proper.
(WTH?)
"They are certainly in keeping with LEAR’s history of policing protest while the agencies who hired them distance themselves from the private security they hired."
"Now, with the apparent blessing of the county sheriff, a group of men who would not identify themselves and who were working for the local Republican Party have dragged someone out of a political meeting, her speech considered grounds for arrest."
(If you don't speak out about them coming
for the people you don't like?
The day will come
when they come for you too.)
"Well you dont know that Andrew."
Yes we do know it,
because every time
we have ever seen this
throughout history
it is what happens.
Every time.
No exception.
)
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