The intimidation factor of running around in unmarked vans, with unmarked uniforms, and unidentifiable Federal Agents, seems to be backfiring. As anyone with a brain could have figured out it would.
As I mentioned before the Conservative Website Hot Air, founded by Michelle Malkin who was attacked at a Blue Lives Matter event this weekend, has another story on the Federal Agents in Camouflage that are running amok in Portland.
Accountability.
hotair.com
There is video at the link, and it is disturbing. A retired naval officer was beaten by the Feds for asking why they were violating their oath.
For a long time now, people have been warning about the dangers of militarized police, and instead of heeding those warnings, the Feds seem to be embracing them in an effort to intimidate the protestors. Instead, more are showing up, outraged at the uniforms absent identification, and the bullying tactics of the agents who are obviously instructed to do so by their superiors.
You can't file a complaint against Agent Jones. If you have no idea it was Jones who bashed your skull in. You can't file a lawsuit complaining that Agent number 9596 cracked your skull if there is no way to know who did it. In Fiction, James Bond and the rest of the 00 Agents had a License to Kill. In reality, it looks like the Federal Agents have that license, and the enemy is anyone who doesn't bow down.
Those of you cheering this brutality, ask yourself this. If Biden wins, are you ready for that machine to be turned on you? Think about it.
You are a moron. Tell you what, find a resident from the city who actually pays for stuff who supports your feeble attempts hug collecting.
Many, many times in this very thread I have said that use of force to subdue a prisoner, or effect an arrest, or in self defense, is perfectly justifiable. I even said that if they were pushing the rioters back, it would be acceptable. However, none of that is taking place. So it isn't justifiable.
Using force on someone is sometimes required by situations. I never speak out against cops who shoot an armed man. I don't speak out when cops have to fight a man who is fighting them. I do speak out when a cop uses force and it is not necessary.
We speak of law and order, but for some reason those laws never seem to apply to the cops. When they do apply, we find excuses to justify the inexcusable. Cops beating someone who is having a seizure as one example.
So in this case, the inexcusable happened and yet someone is angry that the indefensible happened, and turns to attacking me, for posting the story.
I didn't beat the man. I am not in Portland. I am in Georgia, near Savannah. Now honestly, by Rural Georgia Standards, I am a little liberal. By San Francisco or Portland Standards, I am a raging RW loon. In addition to believing in the rest of the bill of rights, I also believe in the Second. Which makes me a loon by their standards.
You can't defend the actions of the Feds. You can't explain them. So you attack those who question them, and expect the law breakers, even the badge wearing ones, to be held to account.