What Happened When You Weren’t Looking

Ira Lee White
6 min readJun 4, 2020

--

These lists try to give a picture of recent events. There is obviously more than I have time or energy to pursue. I have attempted to round up as many incidents as I could and to be as accurate as possible. There are plenty more incidents. Please don’t feel left out if your favorite action is not included. Everyone needs to read this list. Everyone. It gives you a sense of what has been happening all on one page. Pass this along as some of us really need to see what has happened to our democracy. Note: The list at the end might seem a bit sci fi but I assure you they have all this stuff and more.

What Police Have Accomplished

Lockdown for COVID followed by lockdown for nationwide protests. And when the protests are over, there will be another reason for a lockdown. Perhaps a second COVID wave.

100 cop attacks on news media that were clearly marked as news media. Also, some were arrested. One newsman lost his eye when a rubber bullet hit it. In one instance, over a dozen news people were beaten and gassed at one location.

Cops caught on camera breaking windows and starting fires and beating the crap out of unarmed people who are nonviolent. Meanwhile, cops knew about but let looting go on near them without any action against looters.

Undercover cops caught on camera pushing people into uniformed police then casually walking away as if they had nothing to do with it.

Tear gassing, pepper spraying, rubber bullets, flash bangs and clubs to the heads of many unarmed, peaceful protesters

Police captured on video going through a neighborhood shooting at people on their balconies.

Police using cars to run over protesters

Police set up on a street then shot at any car that came down it. No signs, no barriers indicating the street was closed.

A policeman caught on camera literally bathing two little girls with pepper spray

Police throwing people to the ground with one woman in the hospital with serious injuries and some of the victims being elderly or youngsters.

Police were filmed destroying supplies and water meant for protesters.

Cops covered their badges to avoid being identified.

What Politicians Have Accomplished

Talking as if the protests are “battlegrounds.” We are on a war footing with the people against the government and oligarchs.

Passing of laws for curfew, more surveillance, more police control

Lying to the public- both the media and the government and they seem to be working together.

Nullifying whatever parts of the Constitution that are in their way.

While the COVID and the riots are on, they are passing more bills to give corporations and wealthy more tax breaks, more low interest loans more, more, more!

The Congress also voted on some bills. They voted down a bill to provide funds for election security. They passed a relief bill for COVID giving several trillion dollars in low interest loans and grants while the people and genuinely small businesses got a few billion. They passed a second bill, The Heroes Act, that was supposed to give help to middle and lower class workers but managed to funnel much of it to corporations. Among other odious deeds, Congress also failed to pass an anti-lynching law.

Some Congress people knew about the coming of the Corona virus and sold their stocks that they knew would be affected making themselves very rich. Meanwhile, some government officials gave us a warning that has proven to have been blown out of proportion while others downplayed the danger of the illness and its ability to spread. This and a couple of other kindergarten mistakes cost the lives of over 100,000 at the time of writing this.

What the Neo-Nazis and Racists Accomplished

They beat up a lot of people and tried to make it look like protesters did it.

They started fires and broke windows to place blame on protesters.

They did everything in their power to start a civil war which is their stated goal.

What Happened While We Weren’t Looking

The stage was set for a cashless society that will mean you have less control over your own cash which they can take away from you in a flash, but also they will have one more tool to track you with as you travel about.

We had the Syrian wheat fields burned. In an area where war and famine are all over, we burn wheat fields to save the people.

Eighty billionaires made approximately $370 billion dollars in one month of the pandemic.

Pallets of bricks somehow showed up in the streets where the protests were with no obvious construction going on.

Julian Assange has come down with a lung condition. He is in prison awaiting the decision of a British court as to whether or not he should be extradited to the US to face charges of revealing the criminal acts committed by politicians in the US and around the world. He’s been held without bail for a year after the illegal arrest made by British police with US agents.

Environmental laws have been taken off the books

Oil pipeline building has gone into overdrive

Fracking permits selling like hotcakes

Personal protection gear disappeared or was outright confiscated by government. It might be noted that while our doctors and nurses were short on masks, etc. the hundreds of police on the streets all have masks.

The oil industry, airlines, defense industry, lobbyists, coal mining, cruise ship industry, hotels and motels, and banks all got bailed out to the tune of several trillion dollars. The people and (real) small businesses got next to nothing- somewhere in the neighborhood of $300 billion.

Money appropriated for Native Americans who have been hit really hard disappeared along with several shipments of masks and other essential medical supplies

The United States of Amerka played high seas pirate by confiscating shipments of essential supplies bought and being delivered to other countries. Proud to be an Amerikan!

People were gassed so the president could have a photo op.

Additional sanctions were put on countries that the US had already sanctioned. Wartime maneuvers were carried out as well despite the pandemic.

Goodies That Will Be Used Against Protesters

Drones- little flying objects with cameras and mics and able to be loaded with a missile, rifle or some other weapon. I just heard that they have made tiny, insect drones that are capable of invading an area and spreading a virus.

Bugs- Little mechanical bugs can creep into your home, car or office and record what is going on.

Flash bangs- explosive charges meant to scare protesters. If they land on you or near you, they can do extensive damage.

Tear gas- this has been banned from use by the United Nations as it can cause long term damage to people and even death.

Pepper spray- used to spray in people’s faces to incapacitate them. The spray guns used can drown a crowd in this stuff.

Blaster- They have a machine that will make your ears bleed and perhaps render you permanently deaf. It is designed to blast a wall of sound to take out the ears of anyone in that area sending them fleeing the streets.

High energy weapon- they have learned to concentrate the laser so that now they can put a big hole in an engine block of a truck from a mile away.

Cell phone tracking of protesters.

Nano technology where you become host to a gang of incredibly tiny robots that circulate around in your body doing whatever they were programmed to do, from delivering medication in the exact amount and on time in the place it needs to be or delivering a debilitating agent.

We mustn’t forget the tanks, armored personnel carriers, automatic weapons, grenade launchers, and other regular military equipment they have been armed with.

--

--

Ira Lee White

I am a writer living in Oregon. My writings can be found on this site and on my website, www.irawhite.com. I am now retired from the USDA.