AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>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.</p><p>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. </p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-tells-police-that-common-protest-activities-are-violent-tactics/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/dhs-tells-poli</span><span class="invisible">ce-that-common-protest-activities-are-violent-tactics/</span></a> (archived: <a href="https://archive.ph/Yclqv" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/Yclqv</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>)</p><p>DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’</p><p>"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.”</p><p>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.”</p><p>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.</p><p>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."</p><p>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. </p><p>“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.”</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Police</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MartialLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MartialLaw</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Gestapo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gestapo</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a></p>