Veterans are facing federal charges after protesting ICE sweeps and Trump’s national guard deployments. The justice department claims the veterans were violent
US military veterans increasingly face arrest and injury amid protests over Donald Trump’s deportation campaign and his push to deploy national guard members to an ever-widening number of American cities.
The Guardian has identified eight instances where military veterans have been prosecuted or sought damages after being detained by federal agents.
The latest incident occurred in Broadview, outside Chicago, where 70-year old air force veteran Dana Briggs was charged with felony assault on a federal officer on 29 September.
The country illegally invades other countries, torture its citizens, in the name of finding WMDs and bringing democracy. Their infrastructure is destroyed and thousands of civilians are killed as collateral damage.
Yet some people sign up to do that job and expect the very same government that disregard human lives and rights in other countries to treat them like heroes.
They are serving the interests of capitalism and the rich, and are surprised when the very same system that they thought were defending turns on them?! How fucking naive can a person be?
The US could send its “veterans” in a meat grinder once they are used for corporations’ benefit and people would still sign up for it.
They should have been Senator’s sons
Some folks are born made to wave the flag Ooh, they're red, white and blue And when the band plays "Hail To The Chief" Ooh, they point the cannon at you, LordIt ain’t me, it ain’t me!
I ain’t no senator’s son!
If you think this is bad, it’s actually just a small taste of what’s to come, when MAGA has turned USA into a full fledged dictatorship.
What Americans are experiencing now is PEANUTS, compared to what they are risking if they don’t act.Bye bye democracy = bye bye freedom.
And on top of that, fascism will be extremely harmful to the American economy, and normal people will suffer a dramatic downturn in available income, as power is concentrated 100% among the rich.Best hopes and wishes to the Americans that stand up for democracy.
