What country is this?
To the Editor:
President Trump ordered armed combat troops into Portland, Oregon, because he said the city is under attack and burning to the ground. This is not true. The city of Portland is just fine according to its own police chief and the mayor. An area just one city block long at the federal building has been the site of small demonstrations. The city is not burning to the ground.
President Trump at the United Nations boasted about all the wars he has ended and bragged that he stopped the war between Cambodia and Armenia. There's never been a war between Armenia and Cambodia. They’re thousands of miles apart.
In Chicago, ICE personnel rappelled down from Black Hawk helicopters in the middle of the night onto an apartment building roof. They smashed down doors and pulled families, including young children, from their beds. Children were zip-tied together and torn screaming from their parents. American citizens were zip-tied and forced to the ground face down.
Trump declared that “American cities should be training grounds for our military.” Is this the United States or Russia under Putin and Stalin, or Germany under Hitler?
All this is aimed to frighten and confuse us and keep the American people from taking action to stop the Trump, Musk, Zuckerberg, Ellison billionaire club gaining compete control over our society. They are defunding Medicare and Medicaid, destroying food assistance programs and creating hugely profitable and unregulated housing and real estate empires. They are building enormous media monopolies to control us through fear and falsehoods — like that the USA is being invaded and crime is out of control in Washington, D.C., where the actual crime rate is the lowest in 30 years.
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Will we accept as truth Trump’s imaginary invasion of immigrant “criminals” and his imaginary “communist terrorists” supposedly threatening our country? Will we just let the super-rich and powerful control the future of our children and our great nation. I don’t think most Americans want this.
No, we want a democracy!
Congressman Chuck Edwards, Senators Budd and Tillis, please speak up now.
Steve Wall
Waynesville
