U.S. officials crossed the Rubicon this week when they not only
abetted and perpetrated an assault on peaceful protesters Monday
evening outside the White House but subsequently lied on Tuesday about
their role in the attack.
The chaotic scene of federal police using shields, batons, tear gas, and rubber bullets to clear Lafayette Park of peaceful citizens played out on TV screens across America, conveniently coming during dinner hour on the East Coast. The lack of provocation or aggression of any kind was clear as police armed in riot gear gassed protesters, ramming them with their shields to push them back.
Inside the White House Rose Garden, Donald Trump was simultaneously declaring himself the "president of law and order" and promising that "thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers" would be deployed to stop the rioting and looting. Trump then exited the White House and shuffled across a cleared square of the park flanked by an entourage of Secret Service agents and the nation's top military and law enforcement officials, including Attorney General William Barr, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, who was dressed in combat fatigues rather than the dress uniforms always donned by active-duty military officers visiting the White House.
Trump looked like a buffoon but the message was clear: He was declaring war on the constitutionally guaranteed right of The People to peaceably assemble. And Barr, Esper, and Milley were all there to help prop up draft dodger Trump's show of of force.
Once the reviews were in, however, everyone but Barr quickly made flimsy efforts to distance themselves from one of the most deeply un-American abuses of power by a president in modern memory.
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U.S. officials flat-out lie about their assault on First Amendment peaceful assembly
The chaotic scene of federal police using shields, batons, tear gas, and rubber bullets to clear Lafayette Park of peaceful citizens played out on TV screens across America, conveniently coming during dinner hour on the East Coast. The lack of provocation or aggression of any kind was clear as police armed in riot gear gassed protesters, ramming them with their shields to push them back.
Inside the White House Rose Garden, Donald Trump was simultaneously declaring himself the "president of law and order" and promising that "thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers" would be deployed to stop the rioting and looting. Trump then exited the White House and shuffled across a cleared square of the park flanked by an entourage of Secret Service agents and the nation's top military and law enforcement officials, including Attorney General William Barr, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, who was dressed in combat fatigues rather than the dress uniforms always donned by active-duty military officers visiting the White House.
Trump looked like a buffoon but the message was clear: He was declaring war on the constitutionally guaranteed right of The People to peaceably assemble. And Barr, Esper, and Milley were all there to help prop up draft dodger Trump's show of of force.
Once the reviews were in, however, everyone but Barr quickly made flimsy efforts to distance themselves from one of the most deeply un-American abuses of power by a president in modern memory.
Read more at:
U.S. officials flat-out lie about their assault on First Amendment peaceful assembly
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