You must ask, what sort of wicked human beings have taken over the federal authorities?
On Wednesday in Minneapolis, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good. Virtually earlier than the girl’s physique was chilly, Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem and her boss, President Donald Trump, had been branding her a home terrorist and accusing her of operating over the ICE agent who, they claimed, acted in self-defense. Vice President JD Vance weighed within the subsequent day, characterizing Good as a leftist fanatic and blaming her for her personal demise.
Individuals who really knew Good described her in a different way: a 37-year-old mom of three kids, a poet and an American citizen who was peacefully monitoring the actions of ICE as 1,000 of the federal cops descended on her metropolis to chase down immigrants.
Not solely was the girl not a home terrorist, anybody who noticed the a number of movies of the incident — which means anybody within the nation who bothered to look — may plainly see that the agent who killed Good was not solely not run down, he was by no means at risk. Good was merely making an attempt to show and go away the scene as ICE brokers tried to open her automobile door. The agent shot at her automobile 3 times as she was pulling away, administering a loss of life sentence just because he may.
That is what it has come to in America. An aspiring-authoritarian president has assembled his personal poorly skilled military of aggressive thugs who conceal their identities, flout authorized procedures and use extreme power every day. And even when the power they apply proves deadly, the president, the vp, a cupboard secretary and the remainder of Trump’s lackeys and henchmen defend these marauding goons with brazen lies that problem residents to not imagine their very own eyes.
Two-hundred-and-fifty years in the past, Individuals rebelled towards a king who was sending troops into American cities. These British troops acted with way more restraint than the thugs to whom the Trump administration has given free rein to assault and even homicide each residents and noncitizens.
As in 1776, the depredations of a brand new would-be tyrant should be resisted by all who love liberty. If that strikes you as melodramatic, inform it to the kids of Renee Nicole Good.
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