There is nothing just or legitimate about the deployment of “BearCats” (armored trucks) against immigrant dishwashers and garment workers. Nothing legitimate about using “chemical agents” against congresspeople trying to check the conditions of those now in detention—including a president of a major union still being detained. The Trump-fascist regime has taken control of the state national guard, over the objection of the governor. The Trump-fascist regime is threatening elected officials with arrest if they get in the way of what is lawless defiance of Constitutional rights.
This is FASCISM. This is stuff right out of the playbook of Hitler and the Nazis. This fascism is moving to "neutralize" sanctuary cities and states. It is moving to carry out without any restraint and in open defiance of the rule of law the deportation of millions of immigrants. The Trump-fascist regime Secretary of “Defense” now threatens to deploy the Marines against the civilian populace. This is a turning point that has to be met with rejection by everyone who treasures human lives and rights, everyone who does not want to see a world ruled outright by racist White Christian Nationalism, male supremacy and the ugliest of America bullying and trampling over the rest of the world. We must not sit by while families are heartlessly broken up, while people are sent to concentration camp prisons out of the country, while judges are threatened and even arrested for upholding the rule of law, and while congresspeople are arrested and brutalized for objecting to gross illegality by the fascists. We must act with courage and with the aim to inspire others in their millions to come into the streets and demand this whole fascist regime must go NOW.
The illegitimacy and atrocity of this needs to be met with massive rejection by people who courageously show their collective strength and morality to say No! NOT IN OUR NAME. The Trump Fascist Regime is an affront to humanity and to everything we hold dear: IT MUST GO NOW. Let it be said in the hour it counted most we did not let the world and the future down—that we rose to meet the challenge of our time and acted nonviolently in our millions and tens of millions to make this fascist regime go NOW.
IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY, WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA!
Revcoms, Los Angeles