LF: 'Call It the Surge': Vowing Nationwide Crackdown, Trump Touts Tougher and More Militarized US Police

Title: 'Call It the Surge': Vowing Nationwide Crackdown, Trump Touts Tougher and More Militarized US Police
Source: Common Dreams
URL Source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2 ... s-tougher-and-more-militarized
Published: Oct 28, 2019
Author: Jake Johnson
Post Date: 2019-10-29 13:32:46 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 1459
Comments: 5

President Donald Trump signs an executive order to create a commission to study the administration of justice following an address to the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) convention on October 28, 2019 in Chicago. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump on Monday said the Justice Department is preparing to launch a sweeping crackdown on crime that he named "the surge," a term commonly associated with the George W. Bush administration's decision to send tens of thousands of additional troops into Iraq in 2007.

"In coming weeks, Attorney General Barr will announce a new crackdown on violent crime—which I think is so important—targeting gangs and drug traffickers in high crime cities and dangerous rural areas," Trump said during the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Chicago. "Let's call it the surge."

The president did not provide any details on the plan but said it is going to be "very dramatic."

"To help keep you safe, I've made $600 million-worth of surplus military equipment available to local law enforcement," Trump told the audience of police chiefs. "If you remember, the previous administration didn't want to do that... They didn't want to make you look so tough. They didn't want to make you look like you're a threat."

Trump's visit to Chicago, the first of his presidency, was met with massive protests led by Indivisible Chicago and other progressive advocacy groups. Striking Chicago public school teachers also cleared their Monday afternoon schedule to take part in demonstrations against the president.

"We have heard that President Donald Trump might be in town," leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union wrote in an email to members late Sunday. "If any members were inclined to show up outside his fundraiser in red, that would qualify as productive, in our view.”

Thousands of protesters gathered and marched outside the Trump International Hotel and Tower in downtown Chicago, where the president attended a big-money campaign fundraiser after the law enforcement conference:

"We're angry," Marj Halperin of Indivisible Chicago told The Guardian. "He is taking pleasure in the misery of our city. He doesn't know us. He's coming to our city to raise money, largely from people who don't live in this city, without ever having addressed, supported, listened to the people who really need help." (1 image)

Jeepers, Mister President -- I REEEEALY wanna feel safe. But are local PD actually going to operate all that fancy, complicated equipment and technology? (OH WAIT. You mean...trained US ARMY personnel will "help" them?)

Does that surplus military equipment include, the latest HAARP weaponry? Directed Laser Tech weaponry? (like what's rumored to have been used to ignite California's massive fires out of nowhere?)

Oooh-oooh -- can you please give LE EMF weaponry too? Bio-Weaponry? Surplus SR-71 Blackbirds??

Because if LE have ALL these weapons, we'll be "safe," right? And rid us of all the millions and millions of unfettered criminals, the illegals, terrorists and ...ANTIFA -- right?!?

Trump: "If you remember, the previous administration didn't want to do that... They didn't want to make you look so tough. They didn't want to make you look like you're a threat."

Yeah, and we didn't want it or like it THEN either, moron. Now YOU are making us "look like" we're the "threat." AND idiots.

Folks, stop believing Trump is more, "We just here to help." He knows the truth. A heavily armed domestic military is NOT what the doctor ordered, is it?