The commander of the arm of the U.S. military responsible for Donald Trump’s illegal military occupations of American cities said he is willing to conduct attacks on so-called designated terrorist organizations within the U.S.
This startling admission comes after months of extrajudicial killings of alleged members or affiliates of DTOs in the waters near Venezuela, which experts and lawmakers say are outright murders.
Gen. Gregory Guillot’s sopenness about the potential for unprecedented military action within U.S. borders comes as the White House, Pentagon, and Justice Department continue to refuse to rule out summary executions of Americans on Trump’s secret enemies list, after weeks of requests for clarifications from The Intercept.
These people need to hang.
It’s YOU. YOU are the “terrorist”. They are going to exterminate dissenters.
The US is finally bringing democracy to the US 😍
Imperialism has turned inwards on the core
Oh we’ve been handing out democracy here for years (selectively)
I guess they’ll be attacking the Proud Boys in no time with B-2 bombers and F-35s.
night of long knives, only matter of time.
Antifa is considered a terrorist organization and transgender people are considered nihilistic violent extremists. Really putting that “enemy within” part to work.
I hate this country.
Agree
If the Democrats had any fucking balls, they’d make sure he knows he’ll be up on treason charges the second they’re back in power. But they won’t, because they’re feckless enablers.
Military in nation with authoritarian leader consolidating power for authoritarian takeover says things about consolidating power to continue the authoritarian takeover, more at 11.
The people in the military who could do something about this are caught in self-imposed ethical conundrums and leaving all on their own while the people who don’t care and are even willing to fuel their future dictator into power have no restraint whatsoever and are getting rewarded for it. Hey, at least when it’s all over, that imaginary good guy in the sky will materialize before you and tell you how you did the right thing, right?
Oh, cool. So now you’re gonna like, break the law within our own borders by operating within them? That’s awesome. No longer will the USA military need to cross borders to fuck with people unjustifiably. What a relief.
I remember back during round one with this shithead when people were saying ICE was just a test to see US civilian reaction to armed forces, a step further what cops have become, in their cities. They were correct, it appears. Feels like some crazy political inertia that this unconstitutional bullshit keeps on keeping on.
U.S. military willing to attack “designated terrorist organizations” within America, general says
I designate MAGA as a terrorist organization. Go after them plz
I’ll even sign an executive order for it.
This man should be immediately court-martialed and removed. I hope he realizes he will be the second this administration is done.
He did have the caveat “if I was confident the order was lawful”.
I hope he realizes he will be the second this administration is done.
Merrick Garland sat on his hands for years.
he was a republican part of the federalist society, he wasnt going to do anything anyways. i suspect the last admin only strung along with charging trump because it boosted thier numbers at the polls/voting, OLD school DEMS are totally complicit.
This is why they made antifa in to a terrorist label. Now you can kill anyone you want. Everyone is antifa whenever it serves Trump.
AntiFa is American as apple pie.
Yeah, “as American as apple pie”, because America has always dressed fascist politics up as patriotism (the German American Bund’s 1939 “pro-Americanism” Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden drew 20,000+ people), then turned “extremist” labels into a weapon against the left (COINTELPRO was explicitly built to surveil/infiltrate/disrupt “subversive” movements), and when it was useful it literally gave Nazis a second life in the U.S. (Operation Paperclip brought 1,600+ German specialists into U.S. government work, including confirmed Nazi Party/SS/SA members, and U.S. intelligence also helped specific war criminals like Klaus Barbie evade justice and resettle).
Trump is just the loudest salesman for a much older American habit: people fixate on the personality while swallowing the “terrorist” framing that expands the state’s permission slip to cage, crush, and kill. And it’s the same story with Israel: it constitutionally entrenches ethno-national supremacy through the 2018 Nation-State Law, empowers ministers like Ben-Gvir and Smotrich who openly talk and act in eliminationist terms, and America is unapologetically supportive of evening they do and it’s gleefully funding genocide they’re committing. America and Israel are fascist as fuck.
Palestine was the test bed for this shit.
We demoed our ethnic cleansing systems over there so we could deploy them over here.
Exactly, centrist liberals forced us to this point by ignoring the boomerang of colonial violence headed straight for our faces AND the desperate attempts by the left to point it out.
This is going to hurt.
Antifa will now have a baggie of WMDs. Time to tactical strike Portland.
“The guy in the banana suit still appeared to be capable of maybe still dancing. That is why the follow-up shot was justified.”
Fentanyl is now WMD, so they get to murder addicts at will too
And they will shut down domestic Fentanyl production too right? Right? Pull it out of hospitals because of its designation as a weapon?
No, silly. Rich people don’t need to follow the law.
Then you’re a fucking traitor.
Who do these war criminals and traitors think are going to protect them for the street of hard knocks? I keep saying this but I really think these fools think there are bunkers deep enough to hide and ride out all the civil unrest they are trying to sew.
Soon everyone will be on the same page, and even the Trumpers are waking up, this is a class war being waged by less than 1000 billionaires to exterminate all of us people that get in the way of their happiness…
They think they’re going to win, and so far there’s been precious little to indicate otherwise.
Humanity needs to end their extravagances in order to survive. They are trying to build rockets to take their lifestyles off planet bcz earth can’t support it. They know their division systems are breaking down and we are coming for them.
“Designated” in what way?
IIRC, Trump just designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization despite the fact that it has never committed terrorism and it is not an organization.
This is just carte blanche to murder any political opposition.
Did anybody else interpret Trump’s messages about Rob Reiner’s murder as the same as when a terrorist organization takes credit for an attack? If anything actually deserves to be designated as a terrorist organization, it’s MAGA.
My first impression reading his bizarre comment was that Trump believed a MAGA cultist killed the Reiners for their politics, and he was happy about that and taking credit for what happened. Basically, “look what happens to meddlesome priests”.
I guess its probably too soon or insensitive to ask what his son’s politics were but I’m doing it. The Reiners were supposed to meet with President and Mrs. Obama later that night so their argument that led to the murders being about politics doesn’t seem completely impossible.
There has apparently been an argument at a party the night before at Conan O’Brien’s.
Rob had scolded or said something to his son, but also as stated elsewhere, Nick had multiple drug problems for years including rehab and homelessness. It’s too bad that he hadn’t had more therapy to help him, especially since his family could have afforded the best care.
The 32 year old son had been in rehab 18 times. He’s a really screwed up dude, so trying to find some sort of logical motivation is unlikely. Like many of these shootings, the ultimate “reason” may be very unsatisfying to everyone.
If you look at a single incident and try to assign blame, you’ll likely never be satisfied with any answer. However, if you look at this as a category of incidents, then it’s actually quite easy to find ways to reduce the number of occurrences.
For example, for drug related offenses, you could be looking at solutions like decriminalizing drugs and offering more social programs. Lab tests with rats have shown that when the rats have a strong community, they will naturally stop abusing drugs. It wouldn’t be surprising if the same thing works with humans. We should be spending government money to encourage the development of caring communities.
For mental health related offenses, the same sorts of things can help. Having support can be the difference between life and death. Although psych meds can be lifesavers, the government needs to invest not only in pharmaceuticals and making pharmaceutical companies rich, but in treating the person.
And it goes without saying, but the violent sort of fascist rhetoric that we constantly see from the GOP and MAGA in particular, shouldn’t be tolerated from our politicians. Ideally, I’d like to say the same for news, but that’s a more difficult problem to solve.
shouldn’t be tolerated from our politicians.
That’s what’s getting me so bad about all of this. Constantly.
There was some sort of facade of gentlemanly/ladyly respect in politics before, but now there’s just a klan of bullies who say and do whatever they want and say “So, what are you gonna do about it?”
And the opposition can seemingly do naught but shrug and hand over all of our lunch money.
Clearly DJTJ told him that Hunter Biden would keep him flush with all the drugs he wanted if he offed his parents, but as with any deal made with the Trumps it wasn’t worth the paper it was written on before being flushed down the White House toilet. /s
Yes, he was telling Maga he likes that and wants more
Given that “domestic terrorist organization” is a term that has no legislative or legal meaning and was literally just a made up category for Trump to put “antifa” into, it seems like this general is actually answering that question for us.
There is exactly ONE “designated terrorist organization” in the United States and its “Antifa” and the mechanism for this designation is that Trump decided it.
He is happy to deploy the military specifically to target any group identified by Donald Trump as his personal opposition.
This is going to be like snipe hunts, isn’t it? Trying to find “antifa HQ” and the like…
