Trump’s plan to send paramilitary police throughout the US: The ruling class prepares for civil war
22 July 2020
The Trump administration’s plans to deploy federal paramilitary police forces in major cities throughout the United States is a sharp escalation of the assault on democratic rights and the erection of police state forms of rule.
In Portland, the mobilization of these forces has already led to scenes reminiscent of Latin American death squads. Gangs of men, wearing generic camouflage without unit insignias or name tags, seize protesters, bundle them into unmarked vans and cars, and take them away for questioning, or worse.
On Monday, Trump threatened similar action in New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, Oakland and other cities.
There is no legal or constitutional basis for the invasion of American cities by these federal agents. Congress has not authorized their deployment, and there is no actual emergency to which they are responding. For all of Trump’s claims of violence and anarchy, the main violence is being perpetrated by his thugs.https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/22/pers-j22.html
