Lest we forget, we will be next
George Retes, a Hispanic natural-born citizen and disabled veteran, was working as a security guard when he was chased down by masked agents who smashed his car window, pepper-sprayed him, dragged him out of his car and disappeared him.
U.S. citizen Andrea Velez was snatched by armed, masked agents. She is now out of the detention facility, but on $5,000 bond. Why?
These are only the cases we know about. How many more do we not know about? We don’t know how many people have died in Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” and other detention facilities. We don’t know because they are mostly closed to media and congressional oversight.
Thom Hartman reminds us that Hitler gained chancellorship of Germany in January 1933, and in six months he’d revoked the citizenship of thousands for the crimes of being “socialists,” “communists,” “Jews,” or journalists and commentators who had written or spoken ill of him.