Precies
2 maanden voor de presidentsverkiezingen in de VS werd Michael
Reinoehl vermoord door federale agenten, die naderhand beweerden dat
Michael op hen had geschoten en daarna door hen werd neergeschoten,
dit in tegenspraak tot meerdere getuigenverklaringen…….
Volgens
deze getuigen hebben de agenten zelfs niet aangegeven wie ze waren en
volgens hen zagen deze agenten eruit als een rechtse knokploeg…..
De media namen de verklaring van de overheid zonder enige kritiek
over, tot 6 weken na de moord de New York Times onderzoek deed naar wat er echt gebeurde en men ontdekte dat Michael geen wapen in
z’n handen had (hij had een wapen in z’n broekzak en een wapen in de
auto, een geweer in een hoes……)
Alles
opgeteld is het dan ook duidelijk dat Michael willens en wetens is
vermoord, hij moest dood…… Michael werd verdacht een fascist te
hebben vermoord tijdens de Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstraties en
was op de vlucht. Echter volgens hem handelde hij uit zelfverdediging daar de fascist op hem schoot…. Blijkbaar was men tot de conclusie
gekomen dat Michael gelijk had, maar dat hij dankzij de ophitsende
Tweets van psychopaat Trump en anderen over de dood van de fascist maar beter vermoord kon
worden, zodat hij zijn zaak niet kon bepleiten……….
Trump is
er dan ook trots op dat de federale politie Michael vermoordde,
waarbij hij de gelogen getuigenis van de federale politie gebruikt en
stelt dat hiermee is aangegeven dat Antifa activisten kunnen wachten
op nog veel meer overheidsgeweld…….. Trump heeft aangegeven dat
Antifa moet worden opgerold het is volgens hem een terroristische
organisatie…… Dat juist de tegenstanders van Antifa terreur
uitoefenen interesseert hem geen bliksem, al is dat logisch, immers hij heeft meer dan eens bewezen zelf een fascist te zijn…… De fascisten
die tegen BLM en hun demonstraties zijn, gebruiken meer en meer hun auto als wapen, sinds de demonstraties
eerder dit jaar begonnen, na de politiemoord op George Floyd, zijn er meer dan 50 incidenten genoteerd waarbij deze
fascisten met hun auto op mensen inreden……
Fox News
en de Daily Caller hebben de (illegale) standrechtelijke executie door federale agenten van Reinoehl
toegejuicht……
Aan de andere kant kunnen neonazi’s tekeergaan met wapens zonder ook maar een letter aan kritiek te krijgen van Trump en zijn psychopathisch fascistische administratie……..
Je kan
er dan ook donder op zeggen dat bij volgende BLM demonstraties nog
meer geweld zal worden gebruikt door fascisten en federale agenten
(als deze agenten weer worden ingezet….)….
The
American dream: a huge nightmare!!!
Het
volgende artikel heb ik overgenomen van CounterPunch en werd
eerder gepubliceerd op Economy for All:
October
19, 2020
In
Trump’s America, There Is Death Before Due Process
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair
The federal government’s killing
of Michael Reinoehl exactly two months before the November 3
presidential race ought to have been one of the most high-profile
election issues being discussed in America. Instead, it has been
almost forgotten save for some media outlets starting to question the
official narrative of his death. The little-known self-proclaimed
“antifa” activist was killed by federal agents on September 3.
Officers claimed that he had fired shots at them before being gunned
down. But a week after his killing, the Washington
Post found that “the wanted man wasn’t obviously armed.”
The Thurston County sheriff in
Lacey, Washington, where the suspect was killed, released a public
statement saying his investigation team “can confirm… that
Mr. Reinoehl pointed the handgun that he had in his possession at the
officers at the time of the shooting.” The U.S. Marshals Service
whose forces were the ones that shot Reinoehl released a similar
statement claiming that the fugitive task force that had been
sent to his location “attempted to peacefully arrest him,” but,
after being shot at, “Task force members responded to the threat
and struck the suspect who was pronounced dead at the scene.”
News outlets took the official
statements at their word and dutifully
reported the incident as one where a suspected killer opened fire
on officers and was fatally shot in the course of his arrest. In
other words, there was “nothing to see here.” But according to a
New
York Times investigation six weeks after his death, it remains
unclear “whether law enforcement officers made any serious attempt
to arrest Mr. Reinoehl before killing him.”
According to nearly two dozen
witnesses that the New York Times spoke to, “all but one said they
did not hear officers identify themselves or give any commands before
opening fire.” Even though Reinoehl was armed at the time of his
death, his handgun was found in his pocket and an AR-style rifle in a
bag in his car, suggesting he did not threaten the officers trying to
arrest him as official accounts had initially claimed.
Reinoehl was wanted in connection
to the fatal shooting of a Trump-supporting right-wing activist named
Aaron
J. Danielson during Black Lives Matter protests in Portland,
Oregon. President Donald Trump ranted on Twitter
on the day he was killed, “Why aren’t the Portland Police
ARRESTING the cold blooded killer” and adding, “Everybody knows
who this thug is.” Later he hailed the fatal shooting triumphantly,
saying
in a Fox News interview:
“We sent in the U.S.
Marshals for the killer, the man who killed the young man on the
street.… Two and a half days went by, and I put out [on Twitter],
‘When are you going to go get him?’ And the U.S. Marshals went in
to get him, and they ended in a gunfight. This guy was a violent
criminal, and the U.S. Marshals killed him. And I’ll tell you
something—that’s the way it has to be. There has to be
retribution when you have crime like this.”
In referring to Reinoehl as a “cold
blooded killer” and “violent criminal” even though at the time
of his death he was a suspect, Trump made clear that in his America,
“law and order” means you are guilty before being proven so and
can be targeted for extrajudicial assassination if those in power
decide you deserve it. Such shocking words coming from any other head
of state in the world would trigger instant condemnations from the
U.S. State Department. Speaking to his supporters, Trump boasted
of the “great job” that U.S. Marshals did in Portland, adding
meaningfully, “you know what I mean.”
Attorney General William Barr, who
appears to have no understanding of how the nation’s system of
criminal justice is supposed to work, released
a statement praising the federal troops’ actions and echoing
Trump’s words in more official-sounding language. Barr called
Reinoehl, “a dangerous fugitive, admitted Antifa member, and
suspected murderer,” and said before any investigation into the
killing was complete that “[w]hen Reinoehl attempted to escape
arrest and produced a firearm, he was shot and killed by law
enforcement officers.” In doing so, Barr too justified this
extrajudicial assassination as Trump did and went as far as calling
the whole incident, “a significant accomplishment in the ongoing
effort to restore law and order to Portland and other cities.” He
applauded “the fugitive task force team that located Reinoehl and
prevented him from escaping justice.”
To Barr, the top law enforcement
official in the nation, “justice” meant death, rather than arrest
followed by charges and a fair trial. To Barr and Trump, the constant
drumbeat of “law and order” is essentially a promise to fatally
punish those perceived as enemies of the government.
In addition to the Washington Post
and the New York Times, several other media outlets have corroborated
that Reinoehl’s killing appeared unjustified. Rolling
Stone characterizes one eyewitness’s account of the scene as “a
violent ambush” that “resembled an execution.” Oregon
Public Broadcasting in collaboration with ProPublica spoke to
witnesses who said that the officers shot him without warning and
“looked less like law enforcement officers than members of a
right-wing militia.”
In a VICE
News interview released just after his death, Reinoehl can be
seen claiming that he acted in self-defense in Portland—just as an
attorney for Kyle
Rittenhouse, the Trump-supporting armed suspect in the Kenosha,
Wisconsin, killing of two Black Lives Matter activists, said. With
Reinoehl dead at the hands of U.S. Marshals, we will never know the
truth.
Instead, Reinoehl now serves as the
perfect symbol of the shadowy enemy that Trump rails against. A
participant in Black Lives Matter protests, Reinoehl claimed
he was “100% ANTIFA all the way.” The president’s promise
to designate “ANTIFA” (which is an ideology, not an organization)
as “a Terrorist Organization” has fed into dangerous notions
designed to create panic among his base. It has raised the specter of
“violent
mobs” terrorizing communities that only swift government action
of the sort aimed at Reinoehl can quell.
But who are the “violent mobs”
really? In Trump’s world, armed self-defense is acceptable only for
white supremacists who support him, not for the left-wing activists
they routinely threaten and hurt. Since protests began earlier this
year, according to NPR,
“Right-wing extremists are turning cars into weapons, with reports
of at least 50 vehicle-ramming incidents” at protests against
police brutality. Conservative news outlets including Fox News and
the Daily Caller have encouraged such attacks. Even the Department of
Homeland Security’s latest
threat assessment identifies, “racially and ethnically
motivated violent extremists—specifically white supremacist
extremists,” as “the most persistent and lethal threat in the
Homeland” among what the agency designates as “Domestic Violent
Extremists” or DVEs.
As if to underscore the threat,
more than a dozen white men were
just arrested (without being harmed) in connection with a
kidnapping plot aimed at Michigan’s Governor Gretchen Whitmer. The
governor, who is among several women who have faced
Trump’s online ire, said,
“I do believe that there are still serious threats that groups like
this group, these domestic terrorists, are finding comfort and
support in the rhetoric coming out of Republican leadership in the
White House to our state house.”
In Trump’s America, white
nationalist armed vigilante men reign supreme while those of us
speaking out against fascism are symbolized by Reinoehl—and like
him will be not be considered innocent until proven guilty. We will
never know whether or not Reinoehl was guilty of murdering Danielson,
as he was not given a chance to stand trial. In Trump’s America,
there will be no law, only order. To Trump, “[t]here has to be
retribution,” rather than due process. Among the many issues at
stake in the November 3 election, this ought to be a central concern.
This article was produced by
Economy
for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
Sonali Kolhatkar
is the founder, host and executive producer of “Rising Up With
Sonali,” a television and radio show that airs on Free Speech TV
(Dish Network, DirecTV, Roku) and Pacifica stations KPFK, KPFA, and
affiliates.
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