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"Terrorist" is the Fascists' new Catchphrase for Abrego Garcia...beware [1]

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Date: 2025-04-17

I heard it for the first time last week at the Oval Office presser with the President of El Salvador. Secretary of State Rubio called Abrego Garcia “a terrorist” and as such he needed to be deported. This propaganda is a new fundamental shift in strategy as it pertains to Abrego Garcia that we need to recognize. No longer are they (the fascists) worried about criminals (that have existed in every society since the dawn of man), but now it is the United States of America that is in the crosshairs of Abrego Garcia according to them. This moves the accusation even beyond “gang member’. Abrego Garcia and the rest are a clear and present danger to America according to the Trump Administration. This is an intentional strategic move. It opens us all up to jailing based on their interpretation of who and what is an enemy of the State. That is beyond chilling, and is a hallmark of all Fascist regimes.

FOX is all in on the “terrorist” catchphrase already..and now we have the Trump Administration’s Counterterrorism Czar stating that it is no longer Left vs Right or Democrat vs Republican. According to Gorka, it is “those that love America like the President and his Cabinet vs the terrorists”. Please read the parsing here. It is no longer a matter of which political party you belong to because now both parties are the enemy. There is only 1 “party” that loves America according to Gorka, and it is the MAGA Party of Trump...everyone else is an enemy of the State and thus a terrorist. And what makes them terrorists? “They don’t love America.”

I am confident that you recognize the ease by which we all could be labeled a “terrorist” at this point, and the subsequent danger we may all face here. A less noticeable result is the effect the word “terrorist” has on the Fascist MAGA rubes. It is so understandable to send someone, anyone of us for that matter, to a prison because we are a “terrorist”. Even typing that is so easy and acceptable. Who doesn’t have a problem with “terrorists”? We lived with the never ending war against “terrorism” so long thanks to Bush, it is now an accepted way of life. When they start rounding up protestors for incarceration, they will justify it as a protection from “terrorism”, and with FOX and right wing nut media, 10s of millions will at least approve, if not celebrate, their perverse patriotism.

Mr. Abrego Garcia is an innocent man sentenced to die in a death camp by the Fascists. He is also the test case of the Fascists for their plan to incarcerate the opposition. We must win this one IMO or the Republic is lost.

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.”

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