This section is particularly concerning:
Sec. 4. Using National Security Assets for Law and Order. (a) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the heads of agencies as appropriate, shall increase the provision of excess military and national security assets in local jurisdictions to assist State and local law enforcement. (b) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Attorney General, shall determine how military and national security assets, training, non-lethal capabilities, and personnel can most effectively be utilized to prevent crime.
The national guard was used against BLM protesters in 2020. I would suspect that this is meant to use the military to carry out specific reactionary actions, e.g. a new rash of deportations, casting a wide net. I think it would be more this kind of thing thsn curfews and military police interactions every day.
This would be, of course, horrific.
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Fuck me
About 90 days away, unless SCOTUS rather hurriedly take off the hats that look and smell suspiciously like hindquarters.
Donny is already promising to jail scotus justices. I think the rule of law is over.
“Rule of law” was always simply a veil of legality over the otherwise naked dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. “Rule of law” under a bourgeois dictatorship is simply another tool which the ruling class uses to keep the masses in line. The elites themselves are never subject to that “rule of law” in the same way that the working class is. Therefore the bourgeois justice system cannot be viewed as anything but a weapon of class war by the bourgeoisie against the working class. The abandonment of even the pretense of “rule of law” by a capitalism in crisis (fascism) only accelerates the demise of the system, depriving it of the fig leaf of legitimacy which the myth of the “impartial and independent justice system” allowed it to maintain. It exposes the real class nature of the state apparatus and its legal institutions; it sharpens existing contradictions.
