The war on terror really accelerates the militarization of american leasing and of the border. The incorporation of imigration enforcement into the new d h s just matasticizes the budget for imigration enforcement. You know, trump was using essentially like posses created by chad wolf of the department of homeman security and bill barr at the departmentof justice to detain people in unmarked vans. Describing protesters letting off fireworks as ieds that allowed them to shoot protesters in the head with rubber ized bullets is a harbinger. This is something we can really see coming, because it already manifested.
Episode three of The Dig’s War on Terror trilogy with Spencer Ackerman: Decadence, Trump, and Biden.
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