How America Occupied Itself (Map)

It’s deeper than Trump. America has been building its Gestapo for years

indi.ca
7 min readJul 24, 2020
Modified from this ACLU report

Imagine that Trump actually built his wall. A big, beautiful wall 100 miles high, stretching around the entire United States. It impaled children on spikes, and the poor, and eventually kept legal migrants out as well. Its shadow spread over every American city.

Then it started falling down.

First a little section collapsed over Washington DC. Then a whole panel came crashing down on the people of Portland, including the mayor. Then Chicago.

Like dominoes.

That’s precisely what has happened, only the border is a 100-miles deep, not high. And it’s deeper than Trump. America has been expanding its police state for decades, starting with the War on Drugs under Bush I, accelerating with the War on Terror under Bush II, and continuing to grow under Obama into what has become Trump’s War on Migrants.

Now it’s War On You.

That Martin Niemoller quote on Nazis isn’t a warning, it’s a statement of fact. This is just what happens. First the DHS came for Muslims, but you said nothing — because you were not Muslim. Then ICE came for migrants, but you said nothing — because you were not a migrant.

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.

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