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There’s an old authoritarian trick: redefine loyalty as patriotism and criticism as treason. And this week, the trick went live.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, the most powerful Republican in Congress, called the upcoming “No Kings” march an “anti-American” rally. Majority Whip Tom Emmer chimed in, branding it the “terrorist wing” of the Democratic Party. In other words, a march for democracy has officially been recast as an act of terrorism.
The timing isn’t coincidental. It comes just days after Ken Klippenstein exposed the leaked FBI/DHS intelligence bulletin warning that protests “against ICE or Trump administration policies” may be covers for domestic terrorism. That bulletin explicitly cites the new National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, Trump’s NSPM-7, as its guiding authority.
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This is the Trump regime’s new operating system for authoritarian control. NSPM-7 instructs every federal law enforcement agency to “investigate and disrupt” entities expressing anti-American, anti-Christian, or anti-capitalist sentiment. That’s not a joke or a paraphrase. Those wildly broad phrases appear in the directive. It reads like a revivalist sermon rewritten by the FBI.
Under this doctrine, dissent is no longer protected speech, it’s pre-terroristic behavior. Activists, journalists, and NGOs are now .....
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, the most powerful Republican in Congress, called the upcoming “No Kings” march an “anti-American” rally. Majority Whip Tom Emmer chimed in, branding it the “terrorist wing” of the Democratic Party. In other words, a march for democracy has officially been recast as an act of terrorism.
The timing isn’t coincidental. It comes just days after Ken Klippenstein exposed the leaked FBI/DHS intelligence bulletin warning that protests “against ICE or Trump administration policies” may be covers for domestic terrorism. That bulletin explicitly cites the new National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, Trump’s NSPM-7, as its guiding authority.
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This is the Trump regime’s new operating system for authoritarian control. NSPM-7 instructs every federal law enforcement agency to “investigate and disrupt” entities expressing anti-American, anti-Christian, or anti-capitalist sentiment. That’s not a joke or a paraphrase. Those wildly broad phrases appear in the directive. It reads like a revivalist sermon rewritten by the FBI.
Under this doctrine, dissent is no longer protected speech, it’s pre-terroristic behavior. Activists, journalists, and NGOs are now .....
MORE>