US Sen. Slotkin (MI-D) Details NSPM7 and Other Aspects of Trump Threats to Use Military on “Internal Enemies”
It seems that NJ folks are having some trouble fully grasping the dangers of NSPM7 as being expressed at FightBackBetter. This article presents a video presentation of Elyssa Slotkin “Intelligence Report” from a her currently pinned tweet. I am hoping that Mikie Sherrill and Matthew Platkin can get on a zoom call with Elyssa Slotkin and maybe even MI AG Dana Nessel. Please have a huddle – and please here in NJ and even consider it there in Michigan – the AG’s offices need to communicate to police to not comply with requests or demands from US DoJ for data, information, support or any assistance for objectives related to the patently illegal and fascist NSPM7. The below transcript was generated by You Tube and the video is set up to run from the security portion of Senator Plotkin’s show. This editor disagrees with Senator Plotkin on many matters but is welcoming that she is sounding the alarm and I am hoping she can awaken Platkin, Sherrill and Mutphy before we all are trying to escape the US and find a country that will accept our exile – or we have to go into the woods or something. NJ is on notice of this threat and the longer there is no order from OAG the more dangerous it is that our names are being turned over as you read this. They need to act immediately.
On security issues, I want to talk about these strikes that the the president has authorized in the Caribbean against boats, vessels that are carrying drugs um from drug cartels. There’s been four strikes in the last couple of months, 21 people killed total. I’ve received classified and unclassified briefings about these strikes. The president sent notification to Congress in September that he was now in a non- international armed conflict against um these terrorist groups, these cartels and had labeled them terrorist groups. Um again, in my former life as a CIA officer and a Pentagon official, I was involved in going after terrorist groups. Um and I don’t have a problem going after a lot of these organizations given the drugs that they are carrying and what that does here in the United States. But what’s really different about this issue is that the administration has refused to provide the list of these groups they are now calling terrorists. Um we understand that it could be dozens of groups that they have now listed terrorist groups. Um in all of our wars past and all of our conflicts past, we notify to Congress that we’re going to go after al-Qaeda or ISIS.
We name those groups so that we know who the United States is in armed conflict with. And the administration now refuses to explain and list the organizations that we are now in conflict with. This is extremely um extremely different and unprecedented for how we go about war in our name, especially at some place as close as the Caribbean. Now, the reason this has major implications inside the United States, because the president put out also in September a new domestic terrorism executive order. And in that executive order, he made clear um that there are a number of groups that he’s going to be looking at. He’s asked his Department of Justice to look at inside the United States um that he believes could be domestic terrorists. He had a very broad definition of what a terrorist group is inside the United States. He talked about not having Christian values or having um different views of the family. Um just a very very broad definition.
Um, but my concern is here is that there is potentially just as there a secret list of groups that we’re going against in the Caribbean, could there be a secret list of domestic terrorist organizations? And then what does that allow the US government to do here in the United States on American soil? The president has already sent both law enforcement and uniform military into places like LA, Portland, now Chicago. He stood in front of 800 generals and talked about their need to go after quote the enemy from within and to use American cities as training grounds. All of this raises the prospect that the president could call what’s going on in one of these cities an insurrection and invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act. Very old act that’s on the books. If the president does that, then that means that the uniform military, active duty uniform military, has the ability to act as law enforcement in American cities.
That means they have the ability to conduct raids, to arrest, to detain, something that again is completely contrary to the values of the United States and goes right back to the founding of the United States when the British soldiers were abusing Americans here on our soil. Um, so this is an issue that I’m watching very, very closely. Just this past weekend, there were leaked conversations that the Secretary of Defense was considering sending in the 82nd Airborne into places like Portland. The 82nd Airborne is not the National Guard. That is active duty military. That’s a very powerful and storied army unit. Um, and this is not the first time that the president of the United States has considered sending in active duty troops to quell protesters. In his first administration, President Trump asked a former Secretary of Defense to send in the 82nd Airborne to Washington DC to put down George Floyd protests, peaceful protests. Um, and he asked his secretary of defense, according to that secretary,
“you know, can’t you just quote, shoot them in the legs a little bit? So for me, this is an incredibly important moment on the use of force in America, on the use of the uniform military in America, and on labeling groups that the president doesn’t agree with as domestic terrorists. This has major implications for us as a democracy and for people who are exercising their freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and how we would use our military against citizens of the United States. So we’re watching this issue very closely.
