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Mme. Defarge's JournalFederal dossiers on arrested Portland protesters named their friends, family, reviews disclose
Source: The Oregonian
By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive
Homeland Securitys top leaders initially wanted federal agents to compile intelligence reports dubbed baseball cards -- on everyone participating in Portlands racial justice protests in 2020, according to new information made public Thursday.
After an intelligence head warned they needed to narrow the scope of the reports, they forged ahead and produced dossiers on people arrested during the demonstrations who had nothing to do with threats to federal officers or homeland security, according to unredacted federal reviews of the intelligence gathering released by U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.
Some of the improper intelligence reports went so far as to include the personal interests of the arrestees and the names of their friends and family based on scans of their social media profiles, the internal reviews noted.
A review by Homeland Securitys Office of General Counsel pointed to Brian Murphy, then the departments acting under secretary of intelligence and analysis, as directing much of the misguided intelligence gathering and said Murphys subordinates were afraid to challenge him.
Read more: https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2022/10/federal-dossiers-on-arrested-portland-protesters-named-their-friends-family-reviews-disclose.html
This is everyones future in a Republican dictatorship.
Has it occurred to anyone that student test scores are tanking
because its too f*cking scary to be in school? Why arent we seeing ads from the Democratic Party promoting responsible gun safety legislation if Democrats win a majority in both houses?
Our President
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2022/10/it-was-absolutely-surreal-biden-hugs-oregons-first-university-graduate-with-down-syndrome.htmlCody Sullivan got a welcome surprise Saturday: a hug from President Joe Biden at the East Portland Community Center, where the president gave a 25-minute address during his two-day swing through Portland to support Democrats ahead of Election Day.
I was so happy, said Sullivan, 26. It was magical.
Sullivan and mom Ann Donaca of Portland attended the event at the invitation of the Service Employees International Union Local 503. Sullivan has Down syndrome and was the first in Oregon to graduate from a four-year university with the disability.
Donaca said her son shouted I love you to the president as he walked by the audience. Thats when President Biden just kind of melted and hugged Cody, she said.
So about those Twitter rumors about a military coup in China?
A disinformation campaign?
In the first day of Fitzmas ...
Letitia gave to me
The take down of a crime family!
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Liz Truss is VERY BAD NEWS
Excerpts from this article in the 9/22/22 issue of the New York Review of Books.
The Partys Over
Fintan OToole
Truss will take the Tories further down the only path that is open to them, that of anarcho-authoritarianism. Like Johnson, she projects herself as a rebel against authority: I hated being told what to do and that has driven my political philosophy. She put forward the legislation that allows British government ministers to break international law by tearing up the Northern Ireland protocol. She has indicated her willingness to withdraw the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights.
This outlawry is underpinned by the language of piracy. A chapter in Britannia Unchained, a 2012 book cowritten by Truss and other rising Conservative politicians, is titled Buccaneers and quotes Steve Jobs approvingly: Its more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy. It concedes, with evident reluctance, that law and order are on the whole beneficial. But it hankers after an ideal of capitalism as chaos, the magic that happens when nearly all societys strictures are relaxed. Hence the claim by Trusss supporter David Frost, who led negotiations of the Brexit deal with the EU and is widely expected to have an important role in a Truss administration, that what needs to be done [by the new prime minister] will be turbulent and disruptive.
This promise of disruption is all that remains of Brexit. It can function now only as a fantasy of liberation, not from Brussels but from all restraint on the making of money. Trusss language evokes a Britain whose only real problem is that its natural exuberance has been constrained by regulation. Hence the recurrence in her rhetoric of unchain, unleash, unshackle. But, as in current US conservatism, these images of freedom must go hand in hand with their opposite. When she is not talking of unshackling everything, Truss is promising to crack down on everything. The chains that are to be taken off the moneymakers will be clamped on much of civil society.
In her speeches, and in the way they are reported by her fans in the Tory press, she has promised, so far, to crack down on militant trade unions, on civil servants who are working from home, on Chinese companies like TikTok, on onshore renewable energy projects, on unfair protests by climate activists, on antisocial behavior, on illegal migration, and on the excessive caution of financial regulators. She is even promising to repress criticism of the dire condition of post-Brexit Britain, warning the democratically elected first minister of the devolved administration in Wales that I will crack down on his negativity about Wales and about the United Kingdom. In the pantomimes, it is customary for the audience to cry out against certain assertions made by the characters: Oh, no, it isnt. In this next version of the show, those who dare to make that call will be ejected from the theater. hand in hand with their opposite. When she is not talking of unshackling everything, Truss is promising to crack down on everything. The chains that are to be taken off the moneymakers will be clamped on much of civil society.
In her speeches, and in the way they are reported by her fans in the Tory press, she has promised, so far, to crack down on militant trade unions, on civil servants who are working from home, on Chinese companies like TikTok, on onshore renewable energy projects, on unfair protests by climate activists, on antisocial behavior, on illegal migration, and on the excessive caution of financial regulators. She is even promising to repress criticism of the dire condition of post-Brexit Britain, warning the democratically elected first minister of the devolved administration in Wales that I will crack down on his negativity about Wales and about the United Kingdom. In the pantomimes, it is customary for the audience to cry out against certain assertions made by the characters: Oh, no, it isnt. In this next version of the show, those who dare to make that call will be ejected from the theater.
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