After doubling down on his promises to deport 12 million people from the United States, using unprecedented police power, and banning Muslims from entering the United States, as well as forcing American Muslims to wear identification badges, then praising the police as "the most mistreated people" as well as being "under-appreciated" and the victims, rather than the perpetuators of violence, Donald Trump issued the bizarre call for his followers to "pledge allegiance" to him.
The video footage of the incident was posted by Bloomberg Politics. It clearly shows attendees at the event in Orlando extending their right hands forward - not merely raising their hands in the air - vowing allegiance to "vote for Donald J. Trump for president."
"Don't forget you all raised your hand," Trump added, as they lowered their hands. "You swore. Bad things happen if you don't live up to what you just did."
The statement was ominous and disturbing to say the least. Bad things? What exactly was he implying.
Trump's statements have gotten so overtly fascist that even Ted Cruz has called them nothing short of propaganda for a "police state."
"I intend to follow the law," Cruz said of his own policies. That would preclude the sort of "door to door" round-ups of millions that Trump has called for.
"We don't live in a police state," Cruz said. If we don't, however, if Trump is successful, we soon will.
The primary in question has been scheduled to be held on March 15.
Watch the video below...
"Raise your right hand..." Donald Trump makes FL crowd swear they'll show up to vote for him pic.twitter.com/9M2QRzrbpW
โ Michael C. Bender (@MichaelCBender) March 5, 2016
Reader Comments
Ceswick : over and out.
One could could quite easily argue that the nazi salute had a similar function, although I have heard one person who purports to know about such stuff, say that the nazi salute has a bioelectric dimension and was actually stolen by Adolf Hitler from one of the Gurdjieff movements.
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Not from the UK but I'll have to guess, from your point, and from my (granted as limited/US-Centric /US-Chauvinistic) U.S. Education, "United Labor Party"?
Call me R.C. OR LAZY.
R.C.
HFL:
Not UK but Guess National Labor Party?
Duh/Oops.
Same Q.
R.C.
Y'know: Derren Brown and all that lot.