no markings of any sort runs screaming at you while pointing a weapon at you and your family: What is a law-abiding, conceal-carry gun owner to do?

a vulnerable point to neutralize the threat.

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then they have no accountability and no authority and you have every right to defend yourself from whatever they have planned for you. (Spoiler alert: It's not anything good.)

It is a horrible idea. The insignia on the uniform and the badge identifying who they work for is what both give police authority to police and protect them from attack.

So, heavily armed men are out on the street with no badges or insignias. What makes them any different from common street gangs in that situation?

On other days, they dress up as furries and you know...

I tell you what, I have an awful pit in my stomach. It's actually making me sick, nauseous.

In America!?!

I don't recognize her anymore. I want to cry.

How far have we come, what else could they be they dont have badges or identifying peace control marks...This needs to be investigated, who brought them in ...Erik Prince ?

Very curious. Are their orders to be followed just like police? If they came to my door, what do I do. Can I "stand my ground"? Who are these people? Is there an "under the radar" police force in the U.S.? This is quite frightening.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

Our very own SturmAbteiling.

Why would our military show up out of their official uniforms? Is that even legal? I really hope someone is investigating this. If this situation isn't dealt with legally, we can expect a repeat performance on election day. This is so incredibly fucked up.

I really can't believe this is the United States of America.

outerwear. No, definitely not official law enforcement or military uniforms.

Homeland Security Act of 2003. Heavily financed and accountable to nobody.

On edit: Here's a thread where I was asking this question and some DUers had possible answers.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213532854

Are they deputized?

to take action legally, that is if they have any authority at all.

Our municipal police aren't even held accountable. What makes anyone think that Trump's personal paramilitary officers will be?

Expect to see them back in early November.

you are correct. As I've said elsewhere, I have been wondering when they would show up. I saw this coming the minute I heard that Eprince and wcheney were working together. I'm just thankful that I was able to secure my location while they were still setting the stage.

...whether their actions are legal or not?

challenges is deciding when they aren't going to apply in our minds as well.

Link to tweet

they've invited cosplayers to join in, whether by design or not. Start the countdown for white supremacy groups to ditch the all black and start dressing like these goons. Police and military have uniforms, name badges, and rank insignia for good reason. Setting this precedent is not badass, it's irresponsible and stupid.

They hate POC also, but police officers appear to be their first concern, from what I have read about them.

Imagine people like boogaloos being able to cop dress up and get behind police lines. The havoc that they can cause then.

Just asskinnn.

And who confers it.

At least, that's the message I'm getting.

...sees this. I’d paste the link but today am operating off my cellphone because of a planned electrical outage in our neighborhood.

WRITE YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPS

or the House needs to demand hearings.

We've been warned for years by the right, and the right wing nutjobs have finally fulfilled their own prophesy.

before the jackbooted thugs showed up.

And, here they are.

If the police won't state they're police?

Yes, they're still around (and so is dickhead cheney), they routinely shot at, and killed unarmed citizens during the katrina crisis and we all know what they did in Iraq. DON'T MESS WITH THESE GUYS UNLESS YOU'RE SERIOUS--THEY WILL KILL YOU AS SOON AS LOOK AT YOU. IF THEY GET THE ORDER, THEY WILL SHOOT TO KILL.

You can see the patches on some of them.

Blackwater guys would be much better equipped and wouldn't look like a bunch of out of shape amateurs like a lot of these guys do. This is a SORT team, used to yanking an unruly prisoner out and tossing their cell.

Blackwater guys aren't cheap and won't be manning a line. They'll be posted up at high value spots, and carrying guns.

Link to tweet

FBI Director James Comey interfered in the election against Hillary Clinton. Repeat, extremely briefly actually, but I saw him make those references probably three times. And at one of them a whole circle of MSNBC talking heads briefly bobbed and murmured agreement before dropping the scalding-hot potato and quick-pivoting to another topic.

Didn't Putin send unmarked troops into Ukraine when he invaded?

When Russia "invaded" Ukraine, lots of soldiers removed all identifying markings from their clothes, so Putin could say he didn't know who they were.

And we know Trump is rather, uh, "beholden" to Putin.

An order was signed giving them expanded enforcement power.

Or, ex mall cops as noted by another in this thread. A fifty yard dash by protesters will put them out of commission.

Why should any protester listen to these guys. How are they authorized to arrest anyone? They’re just there because Trump is shaking in his shoes because he only has something like a thousand police officers between him and the big bad peaceful protesters. Obama would be out talking to them. Biden already has been out talking to them. Trump hides in the bunker. What a wienie!

...so that on inauguration day he will be barricaded in and his personal army will fight to hold his position in office. Far fetched? What is far fetched these days?

Once Joe is President, he is CIC, he can sic the military on anyone refusing to turn over the keys to the White House.

What we need to do is insure that Joe is in position to take office.

Having jack-booted thugs pushing people around completes it. I will say with confidence that trump and his administration are fascist.

CBP Deploys Border Officers to Washington, D.C. Citing 'Acts Of Domestic Terrorism' Amid George Floyd Protests
By Chantal Da Silva On 6/2/20 at 10:26 AM EDT

S. Customs and Border Protection personnel are being deployed across the country in response to protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes during an arrest.

In a statement published on Twitter, Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan said the agency deployed personnel to the National Capital Region, the metropolitan area centered on Washington, D.C.

Morgan said the deployment had been ordered to "assist law enforcement partners" with responding to protests, which he claimed had "devolved into chaos [and] acts of domestic terrorism by groups of radicals [and] agitators."

Read more https://www.newsweek.com/cbp-deploys-border-officers-washington-dc-domestic-terrorism-george-floyd-protests-1508111

Congress needs to step on the gas with proceedings to rein Billy in. in the meantime, here's hoping governors can refuse, and have the good sense to do so.

Miami already has kept most of them out.

https://miami.cbslocal.com/2020/06/02/federal-riot-team-miami-washington-d-c/

knows no bounds. They think they can do, and get away with, anything they want. Thanks to the criminals in the Senate who've been abetting everything TrumpCo. does they have been getting away with it, so far. The republican party needs a good ass whipping this November, and hopefully we can hand them their asses. Let's see how they like it when the shoe is on the other foot for awhile. Sending 20 or so to prison would make a lot of us feel better as well.

Yesterday!

TY, Clint Watts

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