This series is dedicated to demonstratively parlay that both recent history and current events are leading the US to an impartation of Fascism never before seen in its relatively young history. All Fascism in modern times has begun with Nationalism. I will use the self-ascribed ‘tenets’ from the original piece I published Days Of The New American Fascism on November 18th, 2016
By KC Shoen
Partitioning:
The First Tenet of Nationalism
“we are the victims, we will no longer comply with the established cultural propaganda, jargon or current laws, and no longer cede to blame for any of our actions before this or after. We are free to ‘express’ our ‘victimization’, and will ‘take back’ what is ‘rightfully ours’”
The Weapons of Partitioning
“In White America's collective psyche, and in its traditional narratives of historical memory, authoritarianism is always viewed as existing elsewhere”- Henry A. Giroux, from ‘America At War With Itself ‘ (City Lights Books)
“...All Immigrants to the United States know...that if they want to be real, authentic Americans they must reduce their fealty to their native country and regard it as secondary, subordinate, in order to emphasize their whiteness. Unlike any nation in Europe, the United States holds whiteness as a unifying force..”-Toni Morrison ‘Mourning For Whiteness’ - from The New Yorker Magazine, published November 21, 2016
“...Many (whites) are taught (in the US).. ..that people of color can never reach the intellectual plateaus of commerce, science and civility, as we, the Anglos have done throughout history. Plausible deniability of 400 years worth of violent European colonialism allows this construct to foment as justifiable and normalized” -KC Shoen ‘Days of The New Fascism’ (Part I)- ‘Nationalism’ section published November 18, 2016
The terrorist attacks in September 11, 2001 changed the entire protocols in which the Federal Government behaves toward policy, privacy and national defense. It was the cause de tension oculaire , straining the vision by holding to our collective sight to the mirror so long denied by so many Americans who would protest with exaggerated and pretense of righteousness against:
The United States was and is a racist society. It has always been so.
It took 4 airplanes across three states, three major building structures representing our financial and military dominance on this planet, and one clear September day to attack them all to flesh it out. The terrorist themselves may or may not been aware what legacy, (outside the paralyzing violent death and destruction they were to eventually impart), they would leave….
15 years elapsed from those epicentres that completely destroyed our society’s notions of such terror being ‘far away ’ from our experience as Americans; a beautiful denial and an assumption of the protective bubble of divine exceptionalism was killed that day, alongside 3,000 other human beings.
From that day forward, that Racism, masked deeply within decades-long layers of white American denial, beneath condescending empathy, endless tropes of self-serving apologist rhetoric, pseudo-egalitarian implementation of euphemistic language imparted into meaningless civil law and discourse and endless self-aggrandizement and artifice , would finally see that mask melt away from its face..
The United States was and is a racist society. It has always been so.
The Immigration/National Security Matrix
The past and current structure of the American Immigration system is endemic of the vox populi manifestation of racist expression through implementation. The 1891 Immigration Act was the final defining piece of legislation that encompassed all previous immigration enforcement under one governing legislation, and was the most comprehensive.
Unfortunately, it didn’t include Chinese immigrants.
The Angell Treaty of 1880 had set the precedence for racial exclusion and profiling amongst the influx of Chinese workers to the American west coast, as they had been deemed as not “assimilating” to the “American way” properly. This coordinates in parallel with the strident creation and popular acceptance of the pseudoscience of eugenics in the US which was occurring at the same time. The concept that those of Nordic, Anglo and Germanic background were of superior genetic construct, that other ‘ethnic’ counterparts among us were ‘inferior’ , being the root cause of human mediocrity, disease poverty and unintelligence.
The implementation of the eugenic-influenced “delousing program” enacted by President Woodrow Wilson, and carried out by immigration offices in 1917 at the US-Mexican borders in California and Texas, (which was allegedly instituted to prevent the spread of Typhus from entering the US) was the basis of the 1917 Bath Riots. Carmelita Torres, a female migrant worker crossing the border into El Paso Texas, had refused to come off her trolley for ‘disinfection’ when instructed by Immigration officials under fear she herself would be photographed naked like she had heard others had been when being ‘bathed’. She then was refused her refund for the fare she had paid and began hurling stones at the officials, which kicked off three days of riots.. Although changes in respectful handling of migrant workers was the result, the delousing program, which later brought the use of spraying down incoming migrant workers with cancerous pesticides like DDT continued well into the 1950s.
The US Immigration and Naturalization Service in 1940 went from the direct oversight of Department of Labor (where it had been since 1913) to the Department of Justice by Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the concern for national security become heightened. By 1942, all persons of Japanese descendancy (whether born in the US or not) were ordered to be interred under Executive Order 9066. This was despite the fact that prior intelligence gathered by various military and government agencies monitoring Japanese-American populations after the attack on Pearl Harbor stated that no discernable threat of a ‘fifth column’ was noted or prevalent among them. The Department Of Justice assigned the INS to run assigned camps that where-housed non-American citizens of direct Japanese, German, and Italian nationalities.
Joseph Swing, the Director of the INS in 1954 was not to be outdone in the arena of imparting a racist approach to illegal Mexican migrants, however.
The Bracero program, instituted during the latter part of World War II, allowed Mexican migrant farm workers to receive fair and humane treatment from their white American counterparts, and discouraged discrimination and denial of job opportunities through racist mechanisms. It was successful, aiding in a better rapport between the US and Mexican governments with respect to better treatment and opportunity for migrants heading into the US., and created an apparatus to control the number of migrants accessing the border, which in turn had a positive ‘organic’ effect in discouraging illegal access.
When the ex-general had assumed charge of the INS, he thought it a better strategy to focus more on illegals crossing the borders, rather than enhance a program which was already working effectively. Operation Wetback nearly damaged the relations between the two bordering nations, displacing deported illegals into harsh and unfamiliar areas of Mexico, and left a derogatory term as legacy to be substantiated and normalized. It also aided in the collapse of bracero program by encouraging more illegals to cross the border, as American growers becoming less willing to deal with the aggravated bureaucratic process that ensued.
70 years later after its conglomerated creation in 1933, the INS was ‘re-branded’ as the US Customs & Immigration Service (USCIS) in 2003, which directly reports to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), created that same year. The difference in its latest incarnation is its enforcement arm, which also falls under the DHS: The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which before 2003 did not exist as a federal law enforcement agency. Now it is second largest only the FBI.
The DHS command structure is now a monolithic Cabinet Department: the 3rd largest behind the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs. Agencies and task forces that once belonged to the FBI , Treasury Department (Secret Service), Department Of Energy, and even the Department of Transportation (Coast Guard) now are under the DHS umbrella.
The security element of US immigration law was not the entirety of its history. Since the 1940’s it has been used as a tool to promote a racial exclusionary function under this construct. It has never been the function of US immigration to protect undocumented and illegal immigrants under the entirety of the US constitution, (notable exceptions under the 14th Amendment notwithstanding). Immigration law falls directly under the charge of the Federal Government, allowing the legislative branch to amend, change or enforce current federal mandates, and monitor and adjudicate individual state law in tandem. It is very much a fluid and and non-binding system between the two entities, which leaves room for American states to enforce their own version of current immigration law, which ‘mirror’ their federal counterparts, and has had mixed results nationally, and is reflective of the current facts involving current immigrants themselves.
Unlike other legislative entities imparting US law, which can compel states to come into uniform compliance, immigration law as it pertains to illegal immigrants and deportation can be directly administered by the Executive Office under the guise of ‘national security’, which allows supersession of the normal ‘due process’ and application of Habeas Corpus to be heavily applied in favor of detainment without charge, and immediate deportation within the realm of immigration, directly bypassing the 14th Amendment if so ‘need be’.
President Obama holds the current title of US President with the most deportations in US history, and has also allowed the carry-over of section 1021 (Indefinite detainment of “covered” persons) of the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act. As he directly set the order for such deportations (primarily of illegals with criminal backgrounds), it is demonstrative of the Executive Office’s role in enforcement. No congressional approval was needed: just a simple executive order delivered to the DHS for rendering.
Illegally crossing American borders is not a crime, but a civil violation, yet those who are caught are detained arrested, handcuffed and placed in this arbitrary confinement in detention centers very similar to domestic criminal suspects and may have to wait up to 6 months before due process to have their cases heard before an immigration court.
The Obama administration re-instituted the ‘catch and release’ program, as the American Southwest borders have been inundated with the the influx of Central Latin American immigrants escaping violence and instability from the the ‘ northern triangle’ of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, notably since 2014. In President Obama’s attempt to undo George W. Bush’s moratorium of this unofficial protocol which was imparted in 2006, the focus then became on those who either have record of criminal activity from their country of origin, or on US soil to be detained, tried, and deported accordingly.
In line with this approach, he attempted to create some fair amnesty for illegals already residing and working in the US seeking a pathway to legitimate citizenship,using remnants of the long-stalled DREAM Act legislation as executive order. It was vehemently contested by Texas through state petition to the US Supreme Court, and by June of this year, the case was rendered as a ’no decision’ in a single-word determination by an evenly divided, post-Scalia Court, and given back to the states to mitigate.
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Immigration reform was Obama’s only area of attempted rational application, but however sincere his intent, he has undermined his own legacy. An amalgamated legacy he will regret once the inauguration of his successor is completed.
A legacy of a far-reaching NSA apparatus, a drone program with no oversight, the limiting of government whistleblowers protection, the expanded powers of the Executive office, and his inability to close Guantanamo Bay, as well as the carry-over of section 1021 of the 2016 NDAA lends a tremendous base of unintended brinkmanship for President Trump to hit the ground running with his proposed exodus of illegals, his Grand Border Wall, and the possible reintroduction of internment camps.
Trump’s first areas with which to cement his New Fascism.
That means that Partitioning, the first tenet of Nationalism, which is to isolate the groups who are to “blame” for the “victimization” of the“entitled” class, President-Elect Trump has to install his own apparatus that can put this into action, creating the necessary insular circle of like-minded loyalists who dutifully subscribe to it.
This foreseeable ethnic elimination approach was built in to our Immigration laws. The history speaks for itself, it will not be a far stretch for it to become the first mechanism by which Trump will begin to activate and honor this partitioning.
He has wasted no time.
Aside from the pro-White Nationalist , Breitbart media guru Steve Bannon being designated his chief strategist, Trump has pre-designated the infamous , anti-immigration , anti- civil rights Senator from Alabama Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. For his ‘immigration transition team ‘, a spurious and stupid Kris Kobach, the feckless Kansas Secretary of State has been designated as an advisor on immigration. Just these three designations alone are an indication of intent to focus primarily on mass deportation, construction of the Southern Wall and creation of a Muslim registry for non- American born Muslims, and a complete ban on entry of all foreign Muslims to the US.
The muslim registry, a massive failure when first implemented between 2002-2005, is being considered again. It is quite possible with Guantanamo Bay being left open, and section 1021 having been left intact, that alongside mass deportation of illegal Latinos, President Trump could begin the process of interring American-born Muslims as a broader national security measure.
This is possible, as the US is technically at war and has been since 2001. Precedences have already been set within the confines of history, and with Immigration falling under the DHS, the ‘threat’ to our ‘way of life’ rouse can be given as clearance to institute internment. The primacy of our National Defense is invested mostly against Middle Eastern, Muslim countries at current. With Sessions as AG, Mike Flynn designated as his national security adviser, and Mike Pompeo as head of the CIA, and inveritable ‘wall’ of anti-muslim religious zealots in these imperative positions could excitedly lead the pathway for both the DHS and the Department of Defense to work in unison to re-introduce internment of all Muslims deemed ‘unfit’ and a ‘threat’ to national security without credible evidence.
CIA ‘blacksites’ could possibly make their way through the American countryside, no longer relegated as an overseas concept of abstraction in the American consciousness.The Chicago police model , in particular the Homan Square Detention center could be the modicum example, as it took many years , and 7,000 people being unlawfully detained and tortured by CPD, before it was uncovered.
With Trump the authorizing entity, the combined zealotry by the leads of both the AG, The DHS and the new Nation Security Advisor could lend way to a cooperative effort to build and designate more covert sites around the US , and, in particular where Muslim populations are highest. As The NSA has proven, expanded renditioning of covert operations of this stripe would need a toothless FISA court to authorize, or adjudicate. Sessions could weaken this court further, and make it nearly impossible for evidentiary discovery by the American populace and media to ever occur and make it harder for the court to deny these operations initially. Of the reported 3.3 Muslims that are currently living in the US. and the majority interspersed between 30 American Cities this approach would require cooperation and organization between the CIA, the DHS, and the NSA. WIth Flynn’s background alone, this could be executed with great precision. As much as he is reactionary and willing to spin yarns of falsehoods and spread anti-Islamic paranoia, when it came to intelligence he was absolutely one of the most highly-touted experts in the field of intelligence related to covert operations.
Hundreds upon thousands of Muslim-American could be made to ‘disappear’ through controlled conditions, such as undocumented encampments (some of which already exist) and detention centers, which could be expanded under new government contracts with CCA to construct more for expanded general warehousing.
indefinite detention of Muslim American citizens, just like the Japanese-Americans in 1942..
The ICE, at present being 19,000 strong with an operating budget of roughly 5.5 million dollars could be tripled easily, and President Trump can plan his ‘attack’ on the immediate circles of resistance to his vision of detaining ‘suspected muslim terrorists’, and the areas of the country which have the highest total of illegal immigrants.
Designated American Sanctuary Cities.
The Sanctuary City policy in which 32 American cities are currently participatory in, which has no binding law nor federal legal construct, could be subverted. Although its premise is to withhold municipal funding and promote non-participation of local law enforcement from being co-opted to perform immigration enforcement, there is no concrete matrix of federal legality that indicates that States cannot be remanded in such a way as to comply, as it is intended to protect illegal immigrants from being subjected to immigration enforcement and deportation on a local, municipal level.
It is admirable that multiple Mayors from these Cities are protesting Trumps anti-immigration stance, but it belies the frailty of this collective protest which comes down to two very important items none of these cities can repudiate, nor can it afford to lose.
Federal funding, and Corporate investment.
Welfare, food stamps, medicaid expansion, unemployment benefits, infrastructure and even disaster relief can be withheld from that states where these cities reside as a consequence for ‘noncompliance’. Trumps coalition between himself and the corporate elite, ( his recent ‘tax relief’’ initiative is proof of his alliance) would weaken municipality resolve through state channels, as expensive private contracts and agreements states maintain with all corners of the corporate marketplace could be compromised, from the energy sector to the financial mastodons. This directly affects jobs and job creation which in turn affects tax revenue states heavily rely on for operations and administration. State and locally elected officials could fall like dominos as they would be villainized for such obstruction, castigated by voter constituencies who perceive their ‘alliance with illegal immigration’ as ‘un-american’
New York City and Los Angeles are the only two cities able to withstand this kind of maneuvering in the short term as both wield tremendous and diverse economies . They are still collapsible, however, in that they can made isolated from the rest of California and the Northeast by having other nearby sanctuary municipalities fold around them: a type of ‘peer pressure’ which could cause them to yield to Trump’s immigration policy demand.
By defunding participatory cities through the States they lie in by proxy in this manner, the ICE, which currently has a total of 26 field offices nationwide, could be expanded into a thrash of local offices and detention centers in every one of the 32 cities.
The construction of the Southern Wall would begin immediately as well.
Trump can use not only federally-granted money for its construction, but could have it funded privately, through his own channels of access to capital. As there are no conflict of interest laws against his both being in the Executive Office and making business deals through his plethora of companies, Trump can vacillate and combine capital in such a manner that it will not need congressional approval for cost overrun.
Trump’s seemingly ridiculous assertion that Mexico will pay for the wall is not as far fetched as sounds. Although the NAFTA agreement of 1994 still stands, and has enjoyed every congressional vote for continuance since, it can be scrapped by the Executive Office under the grounds of...you guessed it…
national security.
To hold Mexico accountable for payment of the Southern Wall, Trump simply has to sell it to the American public the contentious unpopularity the agreement has held since its inception alongside being an issue of border security. In truth, the agreement has been more beneficial to Mexico in import- export ratio than the US, seeing demand of its products and labor expand appreciatively, while it has been notably harmful to the US economy by making it easier for large multi-national companies based in the US to move manufacturing operations into Mexican boarders as to defer labor costs and increase profit margins.
The institution of conditional tariffs, taxes, even embargos could take its place, and make Mexico’s access to the US market more difficult should Mexico not wish to proffer payment.
A secondary action Trump could use, also by Executive Order, is to make it a violation of immigration law for any person in the US to send American money overseas if they are not in the US legally. He could require outfits like Western Union, MoneyGram,Segue and a host of other wire transferring entities to demand proper identification certifying the sender is either an American citizen or ‘legal alien’ before commencing the international transfer of funds.
Trump could further have the Congress and Senate put forth a bill stating that if such transactions are deemed ‘fraudulent’ (i.e. the individual who presented the ID and was allowed to send money overseas through one of these services and it was later determined the ID was fraudulent) could hold the transfer agency responsible for its allowance, by proffering a penalty for complicity. This would place both the sender and the wire transfer entity to be overly-cautious, as neither would wish to pay a penalty severe enough that it would cause either of them personal injury.
Mexico, like many countries in Latin America, does have a plethora of dollars coming into their borders by way of wire transfer remittances, usually between family members that are in the US to others in their home territories. Many of these individuals are here illegally. There is no exact total of monies that Mexico is receiving to its borders through such remittances (although it is projected to be in the billions), substantial enough that if suddenly cut-off, it will have a negative economic impact both on the locales in the region and to Mexico's GDP nationally.
Trade sanctions and cutting off potentially billions in remittances would be enough to plausibly bring Mexico to that ‘bargaining table’.
Having been combined, immigration and national security are identified as a single entity in the American lexicon. The perpetuation of anti- foreigner rhetoric still echos from the events of September 11, 2001 without pause nor measured thought. In part, this has allowed the US to be culled into an authoritarian state where the focus on racism, racial identity and perceived exceptionalism has been allowed to interfere with the priority of human dignity and tolerance amongst ourselves as a nation.
Civil discourse in American culture is nearly extinct, mostly reduced to tweets and facebook posts laced in self-serving, unenlightened, ignorant, egocentric screed where slagging , name calling and peer-to-peer marginalization have become a venue of entertainment rather than a realm of serious discussion and debate.
The approach to immigration as a national security function is a builder of excuses for sanctioned xenophobia, racial, and self-hatred: giving it credibility and substance not based in fact or exact nature, but rather on precepts of entitlement and the fear of that illusory mindstate being found to be a facade, and no longer a ‘truth’ which can retain leverage in just belief alone.
Controlling The Media Narrative
“America was, until this last generation, a white country designed for ourselves and our posterity. It is our creation, it is our inheritance, and it belongs to us. (The white race) is a race that travels forever on an upward path.To be white is to be a creator, an explorer, a conqueror. (We must) conquer or die...We don’t exploit other groups, we don’t gain anything from their presence. They need us, and not the other way around.” - Excerpt of the speech delivered by Robert Spencer, lead ideologue for the Alt-Right movement to a group of White Nationalists during a ‘victory rally’ at the Ronald Reagan Building, Washington DC on November 19th, 2016 (source: New York Times article “Alt Right Group exults in Trump election with Nazi-era salute”, published Nov. 20,2016)
On the eve of November 19th , Robert Spencer could not contain himself.
As a self-ascribed White Nationalist, and originator of the coined ‘alt-right’ term, he had been waiting for this moment. A ‘moment’ delivered by the American electoral system: a Donald Trump victory. The mainstreaming of the White Nationalist movement was complete on the morning of November 9th, and its emergence as a legitimate political movement was further substantiated when Breitbart’s own was designated the chief strategist of the new administration.
In the conference room at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 3 blocks from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, Spencer was holding court among his brethren in celebration. As members of the mainstream media began to file out and away from this conference, the rhetoric got harsher; more real.
“We have crossed the rubicon in terms of recognition”, he told a few reporters who still remained. Shortly before he rendered the crux of his speech (as quoted, above), he referred to the mainstream media through a reference he had thrown out for the crowd to respond:
“Perhaps we should refer to them in the original German?” he said.
The audience immediately screamed back, “Lügenpresse,” reviving a Nazi-era word that means “lying press.”-NYT 11/20/16
Two days later in New York, President-Elect Trump was holding his own ‘court’, and all the mainstream television media glitterati of VPs and superstar anchors were invited to conference room at Trump Tower. A private, off-the-record affair, in which one unnamed source observed, “...The TV execs and anchors went in there thinking they would be discussing the access they would get to the Trump administration..” A meeting to discuss the delicacies of media interaction with the new administration, to create a bond, a place at the table of confluence, perchance…
Instead it was to be, (as reported by two unnamed sources) a qualified ass-chewing by Trump, who reportedly spent an hour berating them of lying and duplicity against his behalf throughout the duration of his campaign. Glenn Greenwald called it correctly when he chaste the members of the major networks for even participating in such a debacle knowing full well that ‘off the record” cannot mean good things afoot in regards to Trump, and then having the temerity to bitch about it afterwards when it did not go well. Although the media provided Trump with 2 billion dollars worth of airtime during the entirety of his campaign, it was usually in a pretextual marginalizing way.
As I have stated before, the media itself is guilty of complicity for wont in that “place” at the “table” among the liberal elites; a vested pocket of confluence upon the coattails of the affluent class and policy makers with which they could occupy.
From the summer of 2016 on, the MSM decided to spin the election in Clinton’s favor through self-fulfilling prognostication and pseudo-analysis, and make Trump a staple to draw advertising revenue as viewership intensified at the mere mention of his name. But toward the close of election night it was made apparent their attempting to cause sway by constant marginalization of Trump and his candidacy for shock and entertainment value had backfired immensely. Their confluence was uncovered as non-existent, as they no longer possessed control of the narrative anymore. For the first time in an election cycle, electronic media via the internet had made them nearly obsolete.
But not entirely.
Trump's alleged condemnation of the MSM during this November 21st, 2016 meeting echoes his consistent belligerency he has held of them from the beginning. It was not the sole intent, however to just simply lambast its more corporate mainstream participants. For authoritarianism to take hold, it is most important to control all messaging and information from mass media outlets. Trump's private blasting of the media elite attempted to accomplish two things: getting these outlets to fall under him, and to discourage any independent reporting that would be deemed negative against him, or challenging to his authority.
The media now, has real reason to be afraid of retaliation from Trump, and has unwittingly done much of the damage to itself by way of extolling media-biased propaganda without thorough vetting of information and relaying it as fact, which they did throughout this past election cycle for its own benefit. That fear isn’t just based on Trumps ability to drop a libel lawsuit every 15 seconds on any outlet deemed a liar. It’s his ability to redirect the narrative, and control context.
By controlling context, you control the conversation in its near-entirety. Control lends the capacity of re-messaging by marginalization of the very establishments deemed to have integrity to set the conversation. Every day since his election, Trump has successfully neutered the press as vile and untrustworthy, and the media has been perpetually bitch-slapped into submission. This single-handed ‘Goebbel’-ing of the press by Trump himself is unprecedented in American history. He does not have to honor any traditional interaction or engagement with the media nor be concerned of backlash that may ensue.
And it has been the media that has set the stage for this to exist.
The function of the press is to report facts, and to assure that the facts reported are accurate and without preferential bias. Decades long corporatization and bias leniency has destroyed the ability for these conglomerates to retain journalistic integrity. It had been traded for profit margins, for ratings and for elitist bourgeois acceptance amongst the 1%. The constant pro-Clinton enabling was evidence of an end-game that was eventual, and the coddling, solicitation and courting from the corporate centers of power was its undoing.
Ironically, this same corporate confluence is already in Trump’s court, as he will support policy for their continued expansion for profit. Unlike Hitler and the Nazi Party, Trump comes into power as a direct member of the corporate class. It is in his best interest to continue the political catering of the 1%, and remove all social and environmental safety nets to keep the proletariat the “precariat’ which will be easier for him to manage and control.
Lobbyists already exist in his transition team, but only to assist with functional transition rather than as need to assist with the pedaling of influence. Lobbyists are exceptionally suited as escorts of direction to navigate the graft environment that our already-corrupt governmental structure is built around.
His administration will be a boon for the financial sector, the pharmaceutical and health care giants and energy companies. The DOW Jones ,since the election has reflected this assurity from the ‘confidence’ these sectors have with Trump as their champion.
The media , in this regard is disposable, and will only have any value if they keep Trump placated, and do not anger him. First Amendment privilege will be eviscerated, as will freedom of the press. This will be a very dangerous time for dissenting voices, protest , and organized resistance. It will not be just a series of malicious and juvenile tweet-backs from the President's twitter account: it will come in the form of arrest, incarceration, and imprisonment.
What has been taking place at Standing Rock since October stands as the foreshadowing of what is to come, not only for the freedom to peacefully assemble, and the resistance to damaging industry practices allowed to taint and subvert peoples and environments for the sake of revenue expansion, but sanctioned violence against ethnicities Trump supporters at large deem undesirable and ‘un american”.
His tepid and flat ‘disavowing’ of these incendiary activities, alongside the outspoken support White Nationalists have pledged to him is in indication that an eventual partnership may be coalesced. Trump will need to insulate himself with those who will be loyal and are in complete allegiance with his partitioning. If and when the day comes where the authoritarian rule begins in earnest with the suspension of the Constitution and impartation of Martial Law, these groups may well be installed as his personal secret service to protect him and his ‘chosen few’ from harm that may come.
For those who dismiss this reasoning as paranoid fantasy, it belies the history that brought Trump and his Nationalist rhetoric based on Nativism to the Presidency in the first place. America has been ripe for this for quite a long time. Noam Chomsky rightfully observed that social and economic inequality are the destructors of democracy. It can not exist.
This is what the Unites States is , and has always been….
