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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here...
Date: 12 Nov 2024 00:38:29 -0000
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Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>I believe he also had the Brownshirts
>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung], which were both larger
>and more disciplined than any "militia" existing in the USA today.
>
>So the parallel fails at the critical point: no large disciplined
>group of thugs designated as Republican Party security to carry out
>Trump's will.

Trump attempted in 2020 in Oregon to use Federal police to shut down
demonstrations and he mostly got away with it.

I think that use was actually constitutional although the courts never
got a chance to rule on it.  I don't think it -should- be constitutional
however.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."