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What would be your preferred course of action when violent insurrectionists attack a Federal court house?

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/21/portland-riots-read-out-...

Federal agents with no markings, grabbing people off the streets, without coordinating with local officials... how is that not dystopian?

It’s good because it happened to people I don’t like.

Federal agents are allowed to arrest anyone on the street if they have probable cause to suspect a violation of federal law. They aren't required to wear uniforms or coordinate with local officials. What's dystopian about that?

Nothing dystopian at all about unmarked vans picking protestors off the streets.

So unmarked, the agents wore DSS, DHS, and FBI badges on their uniforms...

The real dystopian nonsense was when media was telling us the "protests" were "mostly peaceful."

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