From HuffPo.
Donald Trump on Monday proposed punishing Americans if they don’t turn in their friends and neighbors for behaving suspiciously.
“In San Bernardino, people knew what was going on, they knew exactly, but they used the excuse of racial profiling for not reporting it,” Trump said during a speech in the wake of the Orlando mass shooting.
The presumptive GOP presidential nominee was presumably referring to unverified reports that a woman who lived near the mother of one of the San Bernardino shooters had noticed that the family received “quite a few packages within a short amount of time, and they were doing a lot of work out in the garage.”
A man who claimed to be friends with this neighbor said she did not report the packages and the behavior to authorities because she “didn’t want to do any kind of racial profiling.”
In Trump’s America, however, that woman would face serious consequences. “We need to make sure every single person involved in this plan, including anyone who knew something, but didn’t tell us, is brought to justice,” Trump said in New Hampshire. “These people need to have consequences, big consequences.”
OK, so if your neighbor is a shopaholic who shouldn't ever watch the Home Shopping Network, it's your legal obligation to report her or him to the cops so they can bust them for amassing tacky zircon jewelry stockpiles. And, in the mean time people can amass personal arsenals of the kind that so many of our mass murderers have. I mean, yeah, I can see a Republicanfascist congress making it a felony to not report it when too may UPS truck pull up to your neighbors house but no one can keep track of a loony who is on the FBI radar when he buys automatic weapons and Glocks.
Our country is on the verge of being officially certifiable because Donald Trump is still the official nominee of one of the two real parties and he could be the head of the government in less than a year. And the media is being "even handed" in not pointing out one of the two candidates is a certifiable fascist nut case and the other isn't because a lot of people would get upset with them IF THEY POINTED OUT THAT GLARING TRUTH WHICH COMES IN EVERY DAY WITH ALL THE ALARMS BLARING OUT AND THE LIGHTS FLASHING.
In a way this reminds me of the kind of paranoia that some of the really hard core preppers have. I remember one woman who buys huge amounts of toilet paper talking about how she had to be careful because when the big one hits she didn't want her neighbors thinking that she was hoarding TP. You have to wonder what such a person would do if the neighbor she was paranoid about got three deliveries in a week. I can imagine them sending in the feds to bust her for changing her fall pallet as the next deranged mass murderer was buying the automatic weapons he'd be using to try to outdo the last one.
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