Trump's speech

Did you guys ever see the 1998 movie The Siege? In the film, Denzel Washington plays an FBI agent who's trying to prevent a terrorist attack in New York City. The attack, a bombing, happens anyway, and the president flips his wig and declares martial law, sending in the army to lock everything down and search for suspects (Bruce Willis is the general). Well, as you can imagine, everything goes terribly wrong, with civil liberties taking a body blow ...



I was reminded of that movie today when I saw Trump's speech about the recent protests. He threatened to call up the military, even evoking Richard Nixon's phrase "law and order". It was creepy and despotic.

For some time now I've been waiting for Trump to manufacture an incident that will "require" him to declare martial law, postpone the upcoming election, and eventually try to make himself dictator for life (that's basically what his two buddies Putin and Xi have recently accomplished).

Now he thinks he's found the right moment, by defining Antifa as a terrorist group and accusing them of being behind the protests. More on this from former FBI agent Frank Figliuzzi, one of my favorite law enforcement commentators on MSNBC ...