The danger comes from normalizing the visuals of military masked heavily armed troops on American streets. And you know, this is a man who has a fixation about the military, even though he did not serve in the military, people forget that he went to a military school in his teen years, his high school. And I think it left an imprint on him, on the potential power that the military wields. And he knows that it’s, if not the, it is one of the most powerful institutions in any society. To give that kind of, first of all money, then power, to masked men really raises, for the first time in American history, openly, the specter of secret troops, you know, unknown troops who are at war with American democracy. I think that’s a stunning kind of step backward, in a way, that this country has, rarely, if ever, entertained. With love, not fear. This is Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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