(07-19-2020, 05:03 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(07-18-2020, 07:37 PM)Sammy Wrote: No way that could be staged. Actually, as easily as the detention went ... It looks REALLY staged. Who would detain a protester that is that willing to give up? You have to have better proof than that.

No one is denying that this is happening.  Even the head of the DHS, the ones who are doing it, is saying this is happening.  So I really don't understand why you would be skeptical, Sammy.  The head of DHS says he intends to do it all over the country.  

And for all of you who think this is all just fine because "law and order blah blah blah..." think of the consequences when the federal government can decide it doesn't like the way states are enforcing the law, so they send in federal agents to enforce local laws.  That is a complete loss of state sovereignty.   The Constitution of the United States says that the states, and not the federal government, have the only power to enforce local laws.  So the President cannot just go out and round up protesters.  He does not have that power under the Constitution.   

It's entirely possible that we are going to have a situation where the local police witness federal agents kidnapping someone and decide to arrest those federal agents.  That will be interesting.