As I've noted in multiple articles, a significant portion of the Trump regime's fascist police state maneuvers basically amount to the Swine Emperor's attempts to recruit and control an army: particularly inside what the regime sees as "enemy controlled territory" in blue states and especially Democrat-run sanctuary cities. While Trump has been partially successful on that front by deploying National Guard units, and passing a budget bill that will vastly increase the size of the Gestapo, the Trumpenreich's attempts to recruit and subvert localized American police forces to the President's will, remain the centerpiece of these efforts. As we recently discussed, these police forces serve a vital role as a "force multiplier" for militarized Gestapo operations inside cities and neighborhoods deemed hostile to the Trump agenda, and a regime clearly rocketing towards a perpetual state of (fake) emergency-fueled martial law probably can't get where it wants to go, without that local police buy-in.

In that vein then, I'd like to take a look at this July 10th article by Dell Cameron, about some threat bulletins issued by Kristi Noem's DHS, to local law enforcement agencies around the country, in response to mainstream liberal organization of the popular "No Kings" protests; which as it turns out, where predictably entirely peaceful. I'll be honest with you however, I don't think Noem gives a fuck because the contents of the bulletins themselves make it clear that the Gestapo wants to use local law enforcement to persecute protestors, journalists, and even folks simply opposed to a fascist ethnic cleansing project in process.

https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-tells-police-that-common-protest-activities-are-violent-tactics/ (archived: https://archive.ph/Yclqv)

DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’

"At the same time, the guidance urges officers to consider a range of nonviolent behavior and common protest gear—like masks, flashlights, and cameras—as potential precursors to violence, telling officers to prepare “from the point of view of an adversary.”

Protesters on bicycles, skateboards, or even “on foot” are framed as potential “scouts” conducting reconnaissance or searching for “items to be used as weapons.” Livestreaming is listed alongside “doxxing” as a “tactic” for “threatening” police. Online posters are cast as ideological recruiters—or as participants in “surveillance sharing.”

One list of “violent tactics” shared by the Los Angeles–based Joint Regional Intelligence Center—part of a post-9/11 fusion network—includes both protesters’ attempts to avoid identification and efforts to identify police. The memo also alleges that face recognition, normally a tool of law enforcement, was used against officers.

Vera Eidelman, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, says the government has no business treating constitutionally protected activities—like observing or documenting police—as threats."

If you've been reading my analysis for the last little while, you should recognize some familiar patterns in the regime's propaganda here. Painting resistance to the mass deportation program as inherently criminal, the DHS threat warning conjures up a picture of a coordinated, media driven conspiracy to turn Americans against the agency; rather than resistance being an obvious consequence of the Gestpo's blatantly fascist, and often entirely illegal activities on the streets of America. The real purpose of the threat memo becomes clear however when you realize what the Gestapo is advising police to look out for and protect them from, which very obviously includes protestors, observers filming Gestapo activities, and literally people posting online about this fascist bullshit.

“The DHS report repeatedly conflates basic protest, organizing, and journalism with terroristic violence, thereby justifying ever more authoritarian measures by law enforcement,” says Ryan Shapiro, executive director of Property of the People. “It should be sobering, if unsurprising, that the Trump regime’s response to mass criticism of its police state tactics is to escalate those tactics.”

Now, a sensible person who'd been in a comma for the past quarter century might be tempted to think trying to recruit local law enforcement to brutalize anti-ethnic cleansing protestors would be illegal, or at least beyond the scope of Homeland Security's powers. Sadly, as the article notes, you would be wrong - thanks primarily to the absurd amount of authority the entire counterterrorism apparatus of the American state was granted after 9/11. Which is why it should probably concern you when DHS, the centerpiece of that apparatus starts telling cops that protestors, journalists, and social media users are basically terrorists and a threat to the survival of the state. Particularly when we know Trump is trying to transform those same police into a fascist army under his control.

Given that the Trump regime does indeed appear to be transforming the invasion and occupation of Los Angeles by the Gestapo and assorted federal goons into a blueprint for future, similar operations, I'm going to change the focus of this thread going forward. Rather than just talking about militarized Gestapo tactics in and around Los Angeles, we're going to use this space to keep track of those tactics, as well as the propaganda being used to justify them, in Democrat-controlled cities across America.

While I still intend to keep talking about immigration law, the Gestapo, and the mass deportation program in our thread on ethnic cleansing, the active weaponization of a soon-to-be unfathomably large federal immigration Gestapo to occupy and usurp authority from "enemy" cities, is a new and terrifying development in Trump's attempt to transform America into an executive branch dictatorship with theocratic characteristics. As such, I think it makes sense to separate out these types of highly-militarized activities from the (equally horrifying) mass deportation program itself. I'm not sure what we're going to do with stories about Gestapo kidnapping raids - which is where these two threads intertwine; I guess we'll cross that bridge when it comes up.

To kick off this repurposing, I'd like to briefly examine a story from last month that I meant to share but didn't find time for. One of the key factors, and untold stories, behind the Trump regime's ability to invade, occupy, and police Democrat-run sanctuary cities, is the open cooperation ICE and the rest of the Gestapo receive from local law enforcement. Furthermore, and quite contrary to popular reporting, the simple truth is that this assistance is being provided by local police forces even in the very same Democrat-run, sanctuary cities being targeted for federal occupation or Gestapo kidnapping raids. Finally, and most importantly, this isn't about betrayal by the frequently Trump-aligned pigs either. The reality is, this situation is a result of policy decisions being made by the same Democrat mayors and officials that Trump is targeting for refusal to cooperate with his mass deportation program.

https://truthout.org/articles/local-police-departments-are-enabling-ices-deportation-machine/

Local Police Departments Are Enabling ICE’s Deportation Machine

"While many mayors of major U.S. cities claim to oppose ICE actions — and have even implemented formal “sanctuary city” policies — local police often act as a “force multiplier” for ICE, even when they aren’t directly involved in detaining migrants themselves. That is, even in sanctuary cities that claim to support their immigrant residents and restrict collaboration between ICE and local police, the police are essential to ICE’s success.

The roots of this seeming contradiction can be found in the decision of these mayors to rely on local police to criminalize anything they deem disorderly, with devastating consequences for our poorest communities and the right to protest."

This is a well written article that I would strongly encourage you to read in full, even though I'm sharing it weeks late. I think it's important here to distinguish between the typical types of information sharing with the Gestapo American murderpigs do all the time, and what this article is discussing. The plain truth is that in their insistence to restore order, and prove to a fascist regime that doesn't care either way that they can "uphold the law" Democrat politicians are allowing local police forces to be used as a militarized suppression arm targeting resistance to the Trump regime's Gestapo kidnapping operations. Under the auspices of "protecting federal authorities," local police departments are gleefully violating the civil rights of their own citizens and violently suppressing protests against again, racialized mass kidnappings by armed nazis in masks.

"When resistance becomes more active, as we have seen in the last week in New York City and Los Angeles, local police are tasked with the suppression of that resistance, both when directly protesting ICE’s presence and later when disrupting the larger deportation machine. For example, police clashed with protesters attempting to prevent ICE vans from driving away from a courthouse in Seattle. During last weekend’s protests, it was Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers using projectile weapons and tear gas to disperse protesters, and it was NYPD officers who arrested 80 people outside the Federal Building in New York on June 11."

As the article goes on to note, these attacks, conducted by local law enforcement on behalf of a Trumpenreich Gestapo that is actively occupying the city they work for, include targeting peaceful protestors, citizens documenting police and immigration enforcement activity, and even professional journalists. Thus the police are, strictly speaking, acting as Trump's 5th column in occupied territory.