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Based on the article from Oregon Public Broadcasting Cited here: https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters/ The list needs to be expanded to include the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2600:8805:1000:6E:A474:62CB:4A48:35DD (talk) 14:31, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
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template. Melmann 17:26, 18 July 2020 (UTC)References
Where is the US on this list? Unmarked, unidentified paramilitary operatives, sent by the US government, are currently accosting people off the streets in Portland, Oregon, and holding them against their will, without charge. They are acting in direct violation of Oregon state law by using tear gas, and circumventing established legal due process.
If that doesn't constitute "secret police" action, then this entire list is bogus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.253 (talk) 19:54, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
I'm seconding adding SORTs (Special Operations Response Team) to the list. The unmarked units are now identified as SORTs but operate outside their initial purpose, effectively making them a secret police. The wiki definition is:
intelligence, security or police agencies that engage in covert operations against a government's political opponents and dissidents. Secret police organizations are characteristic of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. Used to protect the political power of an individual dictator or an authoritarian regime, secret police often operate outside the law and are used to repress dissidents and weaken the political opposition, frequently with violence."
- they violate the constitution
- they are not identified by name, rank or ID
- they respond with violence
- they kidnap people
- and finally the president himself acknowledged it as a tool for political oppression
"Well, it depends on what your definition of “troops” is. I mean, we’re sending law enforcement. Portland was totally out of control. The Democrats — the liberal Democrats running the place had no idea what they were doing. They were ripping down — for 51 days, ripping down that city, destroying the city, looting it. The level of corruption and what was going on there is incredible. And then the governor comes out: “We don’t need any help.”
How about Chicago? I read the numbers were many people killed over the weekend. We’re looking at Chicago too. We’re looking at New York. Look at what’s going on. All run by Democrats, all run by very liberal Democrats. All run, really, by radical left."
source https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-phase-four-negotiations/
I understand it's controversial but it's pretty much the textbook definition of a secret police.
Kiwi72 (talk) 09:27, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
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2A02:1811:424:1500:5908:BEEE:12F5:BC64 (talk) 01:03, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
You should add Romania's SRI.
They have been involved in running covert ops against the American left for a long time and employ heavy use of confidential informants against activists in the environmental, pacifist, labor, Black rights, and similar movements.
180.241.28.3 (talk) 00:57, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
According to the Office 610's Wikipedia page they were disbanded in 2018. Shouldn't they be moved to the Historical or otherwise removed from this one? LeftArchive (talk) 22:08, 21 April 2023 (UTC)