Aspiring Dictators Always Build Their Own Private Paramilitary Armies - Drumpf is no Exception

I have a few things to say about Drumpf's atrocious MAGA state of the Union speech last night in an upcoming post, but before we get to that, can anyone coherently explain to me why an agency that has been terrorizing immigrants and Americans in states and cities across the country and has already murdered at least four US citizens that we know about and illegally kidnapped and detained many more, is stockpiling heavy weaponry as if they were going to war against an equally armed foe?:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link:  Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All | The New Republic

 

"A handful of private companies that manufacture weaponry and ammunition have already inked very lucrative contracts with the Department of Homeland Security that will provide it with enormous stockpiles of military-style equipment, some to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, according to data from Senator Adam Schiff’s office, which is probing DHS contracts.

The pileup of all that equipment hints at a major long-term problem. Just as we saw in the long aftermath of September 11, this new and evolving MAGA terror bureaucracy will expand in grotesque ways. It too will grow less constrained as it amasses more troops—and more firepower.

A harrowing glimpse of this future lies in a new report by Schiff that has gotten surprisingly little notice: It finds that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have formally approved contracts for at least a whopping $144 million in weapons, ammunition, and other accessories during Trump’s first year. The analysis—based on government contracting data—documents at least a fourfold increase for ICE and a doubling for CBP related to 2024, concluding that this will “build a heavily-armed domestic police force.”"  

 

Now what would a traitorous, 34 times convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and suspected child rapist American president want to "build" a personally controlled, "heavily-armed domestic police force" for?

I believe that question will be answered when we answer the question of  which other world leaders have their own "heavily-armed domestic police force?"

Well, for starters - the authoritarian heads of these countries:

Russia, China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Hungary, Israel, etc.

Nice company for an American president to be in, huh?

Drumpf isn't turning ICE into a privately-controlled paramilitary force for nothing.  He has every intent of using that force to keep himself and his corrupt cabal in power for as long as possible.  

The only question remaining is - are Americans steeled for Drumpf's push to go full banana republic dictator and more importantly, are they prepared to resist it?

 

 

---TFG