The dynamic of heavy surveillance was allowed when terrorist cells were believed to exist everywhere after September 11, 2001. There were all sorts of change including the Patriot Act and preemption.
Now, when Trump wants to build a basis to undermine the entire Democratic Party to benefit his overthrow of the USA government there is intense creative writing in Portland, Oregon. Trump is worse than anything we have seen before.
November 13, 2019
By Niall McCarthy
The data shows (click here) that the majority of the reported hate crimes were motivated by race, ethnicity or ancestry bias (59.6 percent). Other motivating factors include religion (18.7 percent), sexual orientation (16.7 percent), gender identity (2.2 percent), disability (2.1 percent), and gender (0.7 percent). The statistics are a compilation of bias-motivated incidents sumitted to the FBI by 16,039 law enforcement agencies....
This trend was addressed early on under President Obama's administration. White Supremacists were known to become angry enough to attempt an assault against the government. We were winning the war against hate without heavy surveillance and false reporting. Under Trump in his first year hate crimes rose by 25 percent in his first year from the best year in 2014 under Obama.
...The president had shared a video (click here) on Twitter that included a Trump supporter shouting “white power” at counterprotesters during a demonstration at the Villages, a retirement community in central Florida, and had called his supporters there “great people.”...
The tweeting wasn't creating the profound unrest he was looking for to end democratic elections, so he was turning to an underground campaign at Homeland Security.
