Cogito Ergo Non Serviam
ICE Murders Second US Citizen
Yesterday, Alex Pretti should be alive this morning. He is not because Donald Trump has decided to put an untrained and unsupervised militia onto the streets of Minneapolis as he continues working to rig the mid-terms later this year. The Immigation and Customs Enforcement kids have no jurisdiction over US citizens, but there they are killing citizens who make them feel uncomfortable by recording the abuse the ICE agents are handing out. The ICE leadership and the Heimatschutzministerium of Kirsti Noem have rushed to the microphones to lie about what happened because that is the only hope they have of getting off scot-free. The time has come to ask whether the American Republic has died.
he video of ICE murdering the 37-year-old nurse at the Veterans' Administration has been on the airwaves every second since the shooting, and it all proves that the government lied about the entire encounter. Mr. Pretti was not a protester. He noticed something bad happening and got out his phone to record it, like everyone younger than 50 would do. Seven or Eight officers pushed him, kicked him, forced him to the ground, and then one shot him followed by others.
The government claims he was brandishing a gun, which was a lie. He had a legally registered and carried handgun in a holster. In Minnesota, that is within the law. He never drew it. An ICE agent removed it from the holster. He may have fired it accidentally or to create the impression that ICE had merely returned fire, not counting on the video proving what really occurred.
Even the gun rights people are upset. The administration has said that if a citizen has a gun at a protest, the Second Amendment does not apply. The NRA thinks otherwise. It warned against “demonizing law-abiding citizens.” If the White House loses the gun lobby, it is in deep trouble.
That said, the damage has been done. There is no credibility left for the government. Even the government knows it. CBS News, which has already kowtowed to the administration, reported:
A Homeland Security official who works on immigration enforcement expressed concern about the possibility of "self-inflicted reputational harm" being caused by the "strong language" used by top officials following Pretti's killing.
"When we gaslight and contradict what the public can plainly see with their own eyes, we lose all credibility and it's going to damage our reputation for generations," the DHS official said, also requesting anonymity because this official is not authorized to talk to the press.
It is not just the DHS, though. It is the entire administration. The president tells people that prices are down, but they can see their bills rising all the time. The administration says the world respects America again, but that is not the case. The world is laughing at the madman, when it is not terrified he will start a stupid war.
This journal has maintained for a long time that the future of the US is going to look a lot like the past of Northern Ireland, say around 1983. A militia/police force is on the streets without serious supervision. They are under-trained and incompetent. Yet, Mr. Trump seems content to leave them in place to continue their assaults on voters and taxpayers.
This is not the most depressing part. For that, one has to turn to the Republicans in the House and Senate who could stop this today. They are not resisting any of this. They are quietly complicit. When one political party is led by cowards in a two-party system, the future is grim. The American Republic is diseased, and it could be dying on live TV. If and when it passes, it will not be with a bang but with a silent shrug, as if all that went before was unimportant.
The decline under the Trump administration continues to accelerate.
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