Performative Fascism in Los Angeles

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“This is going to be normal”: Soldiers descend on US cities
The raid on MacArthur Park did not lead to any arrests, but that wasn't the point

By Charles R. Davis
News Editor
Published July 9, 2025 6:30AM (EDT)


(Salon) Like a toddler with a gun, Americans are learning that fascism, when it happens here, can be rather stupid and still quite frightening.

Take the display of force in Los Angeles. On Monday, National Guard soldiers and federal immigration agents cosplaying as veterans of the Global War on Terror — some on horseback, all in military fatigues and carrying assault rifles, transported in an armored personnel carrier with a big gun on top ― staged an invasion of MacArthur Park, normally a popular gathering place for local residents, many of them immigrants from Central America. Lines of agents swept across soccer fields as a Black Hawk helicopter circled above, succeeding mostly in inflicting emotional trauma on children attending a summer camp.

It was a scary and un-American scene in a city of immigrants that has, for weeks now, been occupied by soldiers and terrorized by a federal government that views masked agents harassing people of color as just good content.

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But it was also a big waste of money, intended not to remove hardened criminals from America but to terrorize some Americans for the entertainment of other Americans. Leaked military documents confirm as much, describing Monday’s deployment as intended “to demonstrate, through a show of presence, the capacity and freedom of maneuver of federal law enforcement within the Los Angeles Joint Operations Area.” ................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/07/09/this-is-going-to-be-normal-soldiers-descend-on-us-cities/

[LakeVermilion]

1. If I was a Believer,

I would consider this to be spitting in the face of Christ.

[Shellback Squid]

2. Who was that asshat in fatigues saying "we will get used to it"?