(07-18-2020, 07:54 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(07-18-2020, 05:53 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Ironic that all these lovers of Liberty and Freedom and The Constitution support a president who has deployed agents to a city to drive around like the Gestapo or the KGB in unmarked vans and kidnap people off the street with no warrant or charge.  

If Obama had done such a thing the reaction would have been explosive.   But since their man Trump did this... nothing.  Silence.

All you Constitutionalists, lovers of Liberty and Freedom, this is who Trump is.  If he could arrest all his opponents, he would do it.

If the locals had arrested these rioters then the Feds wouldn't have to step in. At some point the actual people of Portland need to be protected from these leftists, and if the local government won't do it then it's up to the adults.

So you're okay with the federal government taking over local law enforcement and kidnapping people off the streets without a warrant or a charge.  Got it.  

Do you believe in following the Constitution?  Or would you just throw that out?  

The Constitution gives the federal government limited powers.  The 10th Amendment says that all powers not specifically granted to the federal government are reserved to the states.  Nothing in the Constitution gives the federal government law enforcement authority over ordinary crimes.  So the federal government "stepping in," as you put it, is unconstitutional.  Not to mention kidnapping people and holding them without a warrant or a charge, which is also obviously unconstitutional.  

Keep in mind, this is not the federal government "assisting" the local government.  The local government has asked (demanded, actually) that the federal government immediately cease doing this sort of stuff.  

I thought you said you are voting for the Libertarian candidate for President.  This is the opposite of libertarianism.

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