Trump has released terror squads in major US cities with Democratic governors and mayors. Portland is the one I know best, because I have friends there who are VERY active in what is happening right now. (Naked Athena? Yeah. We all know who she is. Don't even need to see the picture to know who she was. I'm proud as shit of her.)
But... everyone seems flummoxed by the identity of these shock troops, and I don't understand why...? I mean, these techniques have been used by dictators across Africa and Central America and the Balkans for generations. I know the intimate details of the ones in the Balkans because I was doing transcriptions for a friend who wrote a book on the shit. But it's all the same...
The troops are not locals. You can't use locals; someone always gets recognized, or some dipshit drops by home to see Mom while wearing his unmarked uniform, and is seen by neighbors. You just can't have that, so you use thugs from elsewhere.
The troops have zero training. They have no crowd control tactical moves, and are even sloppy with their weapons. So they haven't been trained to use the tools they are using, and they don't have any aptitude with the weapons (look at the way they wield truncheons like a toddler).
They aren't a military squad. They break rank. They fail to maintain lines. They fail to back each other up. They are unaware of their surroundings and often let things happen behind their back.
They are have no insignias, and are using standard civilian vehicles. So everything they are using they got recently on the cheap. Someone is throwing money at this.
So these types of state thugs always fall apart in the same ways:
1. Their middlemen are exposed. Who has been buying up a shitload of late model minivans, for cash, off Craigslist recently? That guy is getting paid, and knows who is paying him.
2. These fuckers have to sleep somewhere. They aren't local, so they are being bivouacked somewhere near by, but not too close. What caterer or pizza joint has suddenly had a spike in orders, and are delivering to a location they have never been to before? Which Costco just had someone buy 100 roast chickens and 100 pizzas?
3. There are trucks arriving with men and supplies to a warehouse or something that has been sitting dormant for a long time. Someone has noticed. There's a paved road that suddenly has a lot of dirt on it in one place, where trucks have been turning off/onto a side road that hasn't been used before.
4. One of the fuckers catches a bullet and the body is identified. Then the whole thing unravels very quickly. A single angry mother can do more to destroy an entire military operation than any missile.
5. Someone fails to be recruited, and mentions to someone else this weird conversation/invite they got from a guy on base the other day...
My guess is that these guys (and they will all be male: bet on it) are fresh military recruits who have not finished their military training yet. They don't have any agility with the weapons, they have no understanding of squad tactics, and they don't know each other. Possibly guys that have been in the brig for some behavioral issue(s).
A black-ops DHS commander puts these wastrels together, offers them the chance to "beat some liberal ass", and they get trucked off of their Confederate-General-named base, and sequestered in a warehouse outside of Portland. Gresham, is my bet. Wide open wasteland. Lots of ingress and egress points. Easy access to existing military bases, if needed.
Their briefings only consist of, "Show of force. Don't stand for any shit. Bash some heads." You can tell because the forces on the ground have no goal or plan. The force on the ground is shambolic... they really are just a gang running amuck, and beating whoever is in the way.
Wanna know why they hit a Navy vet? Because they never took the oath. They never graduated. They are the ones that got into the military to "kill some towelheads", and are frustrated.
Mark my word.