I'm genuinely sorry to say this, but it is my unfortunate yet strong belief that this is a sign of further escalation to come.
The law is only as good as its enforcement, and its enforcers.
We warned everyone that this was coming. These folks have realized what they can get away with once they have most of, if not all, the levers of government.
Who is watching the watchers? And who can actually do anything about this? Someone has to actually care about a Congressional resolution for it to matter (they don't have the force of law anyway).
I say this not all out of cynicism nor the desire for doom and gloom, rather that it needs *to be* said.
Rather than pretending it was an "assault on Sen Padilla" perhaps you should have included more of the video and correctly identified it as "assault by Sen Padilla"
By the time the podcasters, the Press Secretary, and 47 get finished describing the event involving Sen. Padilla captured on video, people will think the security personnel who assaulted him prevented the takeover of the country. At a minimum I would expect someone in the administration to voice an apology to Sen. Padilla for the overreaction by security personnel. In this administration, however, we will likely hear a doubling down about how security valiantly saved the DOH Secretary from grievous peril.
If you read the article you would see I linked to the video of the entire hour long press conference. The incident occurred 6 or 7 minutes in, which I indicated in the text. Let me reproduce that text for you:
“The full press conference is available here; the incident occurs at the 6:14 mark.”
I'm genuinely sorry to say this, but it is my unfortunate yet strong belief that this is a sign of further escalation to come.
The law is only as good as its enforcement, and its enforcers.
We warned everyone that this was coming. These folks have realized what they can get away with once they have most of, if not all, the levers of government.
Who is watching the watchers? And who can actually do anything about this? Someone has to actually care about a Congressional resolution for it to matter (they don't have the force of law anyway).
I say this not all out of cynicism nor the desire for doom and gloom, rather that it needs *to be* said.
Rather than pretending it was an "assault on Sen Padilla" perhaps you should have included more of the video and correctly identified it as "assault by Sen Padilla"
By the time the podcasters, the Press Secretary, and 47 get finished describing the event involving Sen. Padilla captured on video, people will think the security personnel who assaulted him prevented the takeover of the country. At a minimum I would expect someone in the administration to voice an apology to Sen. Padilla for the overreaction by security personnel. In this administration, however, we will likely hear a doubling down about how security valiantly saved the DOH Secretary from grievous peril.
Yes. That's why video of the event is so important -- and for the media to accurately describe what happened.
Yes, but use the FULL video, not just the carefully edited clip of the takedown. The full video shows who was the aggressor and who responded.
But that won't be seen here because it doesn't fit your agenda.
If you read the article you would see I linked to the video of the entire hour long press conference. The incident occurred 6 or 7 minutes in, which I indicated in the text. Let me reproduce that text for you:
“The full press conference is available here; the incident occurs at the 6:14 mark.”
Here is the hyperlink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhWVxZF6J9s