U.S. Capitol insurrection was a ‘hoax,’ Michigan Senate leader says in video

[pbrower2a]

(02-15-2021, 05:51 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(02-15-2021, 01:41 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: I certainly distrusted the "Trump-Trump Macoutes" (was there a real name for them? The secret police had similar vehicles and typically  a large US flag and a Trump banner...)

I used Google on Macoutes and came up with the TonTon Macoute, French for 'Uncle Gunnysack', a paramilitary organization under Papa Doc and Baby Doc in Haiti.  Apparently Uncle Gunnysack was originally like the boogyman, used to scare misbehaving children.  He would kidnap kids, put them in a gunnysack, and eat them for breakfast.  The TonTon Macoute may not have been racist, but they were otherwise a typical dictator's tool of oppression.  They in time earned the nickname.

I had never heard of the Trump-Trump Macoutes before, but I could see someone adapting the original name for Trump's secret police.

I made it up. I couldn't think of anything out of Stasi, KGB, Cheka, Gestapo, Mukhabarat, Kempeitai, Santebal (Khmer Rouge), OVRA, SAVAK, or the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission. Trump's inchoate secret police didn't yet have a name. Let's all hope that that secret police dies without any chance of resurrection. I wasn't mocking Haiti; I feel nothing but sympathy for the victims that horrible organization. It's the organization that I deride. I hate lawlessness, and lawlessness includes brutal enforcement of the rule of a lawless dictator or despot.

Except for the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission (and, yes, it had all the classic features of a secret police except for a limited territorial scope) they differ from bogeymen in only one respect: they are all too real.