http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/04/1418293/-Trump-campaign-to-file-charges-against-Latino-protestor-after-Trump-s-bodyguard-hit-him
It might be just me, but Trump's campaign is starting to feel like President Buzz Windrip's authoritarian regime in Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here, a 1936 warning about Hitler and perhaps Huey Long on our own shores.
Like Windrip, Trump is a corporatist who pronounces inanities pumped full of patriotic bullshit about traditional values. What's equally revealing is Trump's heavy-handed bodyguards, who resemble the Minute Men in Lewis's story—Windrip's personal militia who crack down on any dissent, whether it's from the media or citizens.
We saw it with the Jorge Ramos episode, where Trump only had to nod to a strong-arm goon off-stage, and the Univision reporter was tossed from the press conference for asking the wrong questions. Then yesterday, outside the presser where Donald Trump announced he had signed "the pledge," this happened:
The protestor, identified as Efrain Galicia, was marching on a public sidewalk with others who held signs condemning the Republican front-runner's anti-immigrant remarks. "Make America Racist Again" read one large sign, an obvious riff on Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again."
The Trump campaign did not appreciate Mr. Galicia's sign, nor did they respect his right of free speech. The large man who grabbed Galicia's sign appears to be the same thug who earlier shoved Jorge Ramos from the press conference, although the campaign refuses to acknowledge that. When Galicia attempted to retrieve his sign, he gets cold-cocked—a right to the head. But here's the pisser, according to the New York Times:
The Trump campaign said that the security team member on Thursday was "jumped from behind" and that the campaign would "likely be pressing charges."
That's right, Trump's campaign denied Mr. Galicia his right of expression in a public space, stole and destroyed his property, clobbered him on the head, and now they are filing charges against Galicia!
I think I first read It Can't Happen Here in the 70s in college, and I thought Lewis was awfully prescient when you consider Hitler over there and McCarthy here. And then when the whole Minuteman bullshit started happening here on the Arizona-Mexico border, it wasn't only the name "Minute Man" and the Mexican invasion in the novel that started to ring true, but the racist, authoritarian regime that is Joe Arpaio.
It's no surprise Arpaio and Trump are friends, united in birtherhood and thuggery.
same Arpaio that wanted people to fund his legal problems of racism this also brings to mind Rand Paul's bodyguard check the link
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ff-arpaio-20150524-story.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/25/rand-paul-supporter-stomps-head_n_773857.html
what is with these guys during election time brings out the guerrilla in them and their disrespect for women and men's rights to that same 1st amendment they use to defend their obnoxiousness like i just said they use gov't instruments to defend themselves against violating your rights.
