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Police, Army
In France, the gendarmes and the military promise “devotion to the public good and to comply with orders received only in strict respect for the human person, and undertake only to make legitimate use of force”. They do not take oaths from those in power. Décret n° 2013-874 du 27 septembre 2013 relatif à la…
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European defense
In the event of a Russian attack on a European country, the United States will not help Europe, or not enough, either because it will not want to assume its role as a NATO ally, or because 60% of the US Senate is needed to help. Candidate Donald Trump boasts that he won’t help European…
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Illegitimate authorities
The European Commission, religious leaders, consultancy firms (Accentur, Mac Kinsey, Ernst and Young, PWC), crowds, senates and social networks are all examples of illegitimate authorities in countries where the people are self-determining as a democracy. Big business like Coca-Cola or Total is powerful; what is illegitimate is the representative of the people who puts the…
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Protect the voters
Trump tells his supporters to become poll watchers with a baseless claim about fraud at voting locations – CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/08/politics/donald-trump-poll-watchers-north-carolina/index.html Trump’s promotion of armed militias risks stoking civil war | Trudy Rubin – The Philadelphia Inquirer: https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/kenosha-trump-kyle-rittenhouse-portland-antifa-20200901.html Voter intimidation – ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_pdf_file/kyr-voterintimidation-v03.pdf Brennan Center for Justice: https://www.brennancenter.org Selma to Montgomery March – HISTORY.COM EDITORS: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/selma-montgomery-march…
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The army’s duty is to stop this fascist
Expert compares Trump’s politics to fascism: https://youtu.be/c4MTns3MyxQ Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/ Retired Generel CRUSHES Donald Trump For Calling Fallen Soldiers “Losers”: youtu.be/uWmrRpp9MFA Trump’s tweet and fascism: https://english.elpais.com/opinion/2020-08-14/trumps-tweet-and-fascism.html?ssm=TW_CC American Fascism: It Has Happened Here: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/22/american-fascism-it-has-happened-here/ Prisonners of wars: https://youtu.be/c_6MGxvSaAY Conservative: https://youtu.be/tlmHVtVIJdU
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The Red and the Yellow
Red scarves against yellow vests in France or White Supremacists against Liberals in the United States. These are two current examples of a pattern that is repeated throughout history. When the authoritarian power feels so threatened that it thinks its police will no longer be enough, it mobilizes part of its population in a reactionary…