It’s a slope that increases without notice. Former President George W. Bush’s started a secret assassination by drone program, run by the CIA. These were overseas, extrajudicial murders of people of color who were never [...]
“We sent in the U.S. Marshals. It took 15 minutes [and] it was over. They knew who he was.** They didn’t want to arrest him**, and in 15 minutes that ended.”
Wow! I was gonna question Trump admitting this, but he fucking did.
This article lays out the frightening history beautifully: Bush starts the drone assassins, Obama expands them and kills US citizens on foreign soil, now Trump's killing US citizens on US soil. The creeping right of the US executive branch to kill whoever they want whenever they want, zero mainstream media scrutiny. You could also throw in JSOC into this history - they're essentially US military assassin squads, from reports from Afghanistan they shoot people and then cut the bullets from their bodies with knives to conceal any evidence of their involvement.
TL;DR This is about the US Marshals murdering Michael Reinoehl, the guy who shot and killed a Patriot Prayer member in Portland - who I'm pretty sure was trying to mace him on video, though I haven't kept up with the story afterwards.
Wow! I was gonna question Trump admitting this, but he fucking did.
This article lays out the frightening history beautifully: Bush starts the drone assassins, Obama expands them and kills US citizens on foreign soil, now Trump's killing US citizens on US soil. The creeping right of the US executive branch to kill whoever they want whenever they want, zero mainstream media scrutiny. You could also throw in JSOC into this history - they're essentially US military assassin squads, from reports from Afghanistan they shoot people and then cut the bullets from their bodies with knives to conceal any evidence of their involvement.
TL;DR This is about the US Marshals murdering Michael Reinoehl, the guy who shot and killed a Patriot Prayer member in Portland - who I'm pretty sure was trying to mace him on video, though I haven't kept up with the story afterwards.
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