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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Oct 23, 2025, 04:41 PM 21 hrs ago

The Chilling Memo Marking Trump's War on Dissent

Late last month, while the country was distracted by the usual chaos – ICE raids, a White House ballroom, and the Epstein files – the White House quietly posted a presidential memorandum. It was titled, Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence, and it appeared under the unassuming “Presidential Actions” section of whitehouse.gov.

No rant from Karoline Leavitt. No press conference in the Concrete Garden. No coverage. Just a document written in bureaucratic English – the kind of text designed to hide its true intentions in plain sight.

At first glance, it looks routine: A reaffirmation of the government’s duty to protect the American people from political violence. Buried in the language is something far more consequential – an executive framework that expands the government’s power to define dissent itself as a potential act of terror. At a time when the president has promised to “destroy Antifa” the memorandum spelled out its intentions through the mechanisms of the Trump regime. In modern American politics, that’s how control is implemented.

National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, or NSPM-7, lays out what amounts to a blueprint for criminalizing political opposition. It directs the Department of Justice, Homeland Security, and the Treasury to coordinate investigations of what it calls “organized campaigns of targeted intimidation, radicalization, threats, and violence designed to silence opposing speech.”

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-chilling-memo-marking-trumps

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The Chilling Memo Marking Trump's War on Dissent (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 21 hrs ago OP
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