Trump is pointing to Kilmar Abrego Garcia's tattoos [17] to justify his indefinite detention [18] without charge in the ultra-oppressive Salvadoran prison gulag [19]. These notoriously include a cannabis leaf [20], demonstrating the continued propaganda utility of the "Reefer Madness [21]" stigma, even as a multi-milion dollar legal industry [22] emerges. But the White House actually added the characters "MS13 [23]" (name of the notorious Salvadoran gang) to the shot of Abrego Garcia's knuckles in a crude photoshop job—despite transparent denials [24] from Trump. Lubricating the emerging transnational mass detention program [31] with this Orwellian post-truth stratagem, the Trump regime meanwhile moves toward [26] actual deportation of US citizens [27]. Bill Weinberg raises the alarm in Episode 277 of the CounterVortex podcast [28].
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