GOP are fascists
Golly, that doesn’t sound very small government or individual freedom of them.
You misunderstand, the Federal government should be small so it doesn’t get in the way of the state government doing whatever the hell it wants. Individual rights are a canard to get religious conservatives and 2A enthusiasts on board with dismantling federal protections so that state governments can oppress The Right PeopleTM. Never mind that religious conservatives and 2A enthusiasts are not oppressed and their revenge fantasies are founded on an astro-turfed victim complex.
I did Nazi that coming
Did they also strip the power of the state auditor to demand documents, like they did here in Iowa?
Checked the article, it’s talking about an oversight committee, not a secret police force
You quote the first line in the article. Go read the rest.
It’s fucking worse than a police force.
In the event that Gov Ops searches a person’s home, these rules mean that the person 1) must keep the entry a secret, 2) cannot seek outside help (unless necessary for fulfilling the request, the law says), and 3) could face criminal charges if Gov Ops deems them uncooperative.
So those people don’t deserve full protections of the constitution, privacy laws, lawyers if their stuff gets searched, and should be arrested if they don’t comply…?
And how the "special oversight committee " only works for roughly half of the state government but can still cause people to be fired for not obliging to the Republican will?
An important note from the article is that this committee has oversight over institutions who do business with the government, not just government employees. Received grant money, welp now Gov ops can take you down. Won’t be surprised to see it expand beyond institutions and start encompassing individuals, allowing them to take out receivers of social benefits
Yeah it’s an oversight committee in the same way that the “Committee of Public Safety” was concerned with public well-being.
Calling a secret police force something other than a police force is literally the most basic aspect of a secret police force.
