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Comment by chimprich

18 hours ago

> Because if it were actual fascism, like the Hitler/Mussolini kind, you'd be arrest/dead the moment you spoke anything against it.

It looks like you have paramilitaries roaming your streets - not wearing ID or proper uniforms, covering their faces to avoid identification, not answering to usual democratic controls - executing protestors.

In the latest incident, they seemed to be beating and spraying a woman with a chemical agent for filming them, and then executing a bystander who tried to help her. The regime then tried to deny reality and falsely claim that they'd attacked said paramilitary operatives.

In any Western democracy (and I'm not sure if the US is currently part of that category) there would be a public investigation, but they seem to have been squirrelled away and the politicians who have spoken out about it have been threatened.

This all seems to be fascistic by any reasonable standard.

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joe_mamba  18 hours ago

>not wearing ID or proper uniforms

Really? Is that why they have vests with labels that say "POLICE FEDERAL AGENT" front and back? Maybe literacy is an issue.

> covering their faces to avoid identification

Same reason SWAT and special forces covering their faces. Because just like them, ICE arrests and deports violent criminals, cartel members, human traffickers, etc. Dangerous people that could identify their faces and then track down and kill their families in retaliation, exactly what lib-dem ANTIFA & co anarchists would love to do to them if they could see their faces.

And also then, why are the "protesters" assaulting them covering their faces as well if the good guys are supposed to show their faces and only bad guys cover their faces according to your logic?

>In any Western democracy (and I'm not sure if the US is currently part of that category) there would be a public investigation

Public investigations are meaningless now in this specific partisan case since the people have already made up their mind on who's guilty. So if the officer would be publicly investigated and then cleared, them dems would just say it was all rigged anyway.

  • chimprich  18 hours ago

    > Really? That's why they have vests that say "POLICE FEDERAL AGENT" front and back ?

    The paramilitaries that executed Pretti are all wearing street clothing, and all wearing different clothing. They look like a mob.

    > Dangerous people that could identify their faces and kill their families in retaliation.

    Well that's convenient, because it also allows them to kill protestors or their families without any consequence.

    > Why are the protesters assaulting them covering their faces

    Pretti didn't assault them, and wasn't covering his face. He got executed anyway.

gadders  18 hours ago

>>covering their faces to avoid identification

Covering their faces to avoid doxing and being attacked at their homes.