Alex was a nurse, a person who cared. He stepped in to help when the ICE thugs shoved a woman over. Yes he was armed as was his right under the 2nd amendment. Did he reach for that firearm No, it was removed from his holster as he was held down, beaten and then assassinated. Cold blooded murder. Kyle Rittenhouse shot protesters, sobbed like a baby and was aquitted. Alex shot no one and was murdered. Where do we go from here? Justice for Alex, no justice no peace. Things have got to change.
Stephen Miller is likely relishing ICE’s implementation of his despotic worldview that only the ruthlessly brutal survive in a lawless jungle of humanity. For the record, Miller betrays not only our Constitution and founding principles but also the key tenets of Judaism, except as they are distorted by Jews who rival the cross-wearing betrayers of Jesus.
We may dream of Nuremberg Trials - perhaps held in Minneapolis? Whether or not they happen, his descendants and those of his murderous storm troopers will carry the shame of their evil for generations. May it be so.
I grew up during the Civil Rights Movement in South Central LA. I was one of a handful of white students in a black elementary school My father marched in Selma. My mother fed school children breakfast with food provided by the Black Panther's. So, I come to my current outrage naturally.
I just finished Doris Kearns Goodwin's An Unfinished Love Story. Her husband, Dick, was a senior advisor and speech writer for both JFK and LBJ. What struck me most, was the reminder that MLK was assassinated not long after he launched his War on Poverty despite the resistance of his closest associates. I think he recognized that by the US government giving blacks a say in their government and more opportunities, there would be backlash from disenfranchised and disaffected whites. I think he understood that in order for blacks to rise, disenfranchised and disaffected whites would also have to have a say in their government and increased opportunities. I think he understood that the two groups would be pitted against each other by those wishing to maintain the status quo. I think the Trumpian view of the world is that dynamic. Only, this time it is the grieved American against brown immigrants.
As I look back to the promise of The Great Society, I can't help but wonder what if . . . What if LBJ had extricated the US from Vietnam in '66 or '67 or '68? What if he brought home the troops and been president for four more years? What if Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr had not been assassinated? Would we be where we are today?
I wish I could share your fantastic article far and wide, but FB, which is my method of spreading, just suspended my account and I appealed with no success, and no further avenue. So, I regret I was too outspoken apparently and Zuck's gestapo shut me down.
I'm not sure that calling up the Guard is such a bad idea. Mayor Frey said it was needed because the city's own police force is exhausted. The guard members involved are not from some distant red state; they are locals, quite possibly very local in large part, and as pissed as anyone about ICE.
Some sort of crowd control is needed if only to be sure that protestors STAY peaceful. That actually protects them, and keeps this from turning into an excuse for the Insurrection Act.
The protestors have been doing an exemplary job of keeping calm. I watched a live broadcast of the protestors AFTER Petti was killed. They were not hurling things, were mostly standing in one place or walking around in a radius of a few feet. They were in large part staying well back from the yellow tape; those closer to that line appeared to be mostly press. As far as I could see the flash bangs, tear gas, and surge into the crowd were entirely gratuitous, possibly ordered to create a photo op of "chaos" for the viewers of Fox.
But there are always hooligans, often agents provocateurs. LOCAL forces are way preferable to ICE as a way to quell any effects such might cause. Similarly, if the crowds surround and block ICE when it is actually leaving, the danger of ICE using actual lethal force to get out rises hugely.
A blue state's guard tends to care about the community it comes from. The Guard here in WA did a tremendous job during our recent catastrophic floods. We need to make a distinction between OUTSIDE guard foisted on us by "nationalization" and the locals helping where needed. Many of us know Guard members. And I will bet you that those you know are rarely monsters. And of course it matters who they answer to: a mad president or a governor determined not to let things get to the point of the insurrection act.
There's been a lot of discussion about whether city and state cops can actually arrest bad-acting ICE agents. Supremacy clause and all that. Would it apply if the Guard did it? (Do they have the power to arrest? I don't really know).
Simply based on our state guard here, I think that one from Minnesota may be more of a force for stabilization than a force adding to the chaos,
This comes from someone who developed general principles during Vietnam of HATING the use of the military in most instances. It has taken a long time to get to the point of realizing that as a whole the grunts of Vietnam weren't really bad guys, just folks put in an untenable situation, forced to be LED by a definite cadre of bad guys. I'm not at all sure those leading the current use of the Guard in MN are bad guys at all.
We need to control our prejudices when considering this move by Walz. WATCH the guard and see whether what they do is really awful, or just necessary to keep things from getting worse. Keep in mind how your emotional response is conditioned by the regime's MISUSE of the Guard--have they succeeded in forming your opinion for you?
Mary- Much of what is happening now reminds me of a book that describes and analyzes the periods in our American history when we handed over our rights to government with often terrible results. Starting with the Alien and Sedition Acts, and then going through the Civil War, the World Wars, the McCarthy Era, 9-11 (Patriot Act) etc. ... the book is Perilous Times by Geoffrey R. Stone. I think we can safely say that Mr. Stone could now add another chapter to his book.
Wow Mary a great article, your use of words makes me jealous! And I love to learn.. you’re a great teacher! Please Continue!
Alex was a nurse, a person who cared. He stepped in to help when the ICE thugs shoved a woman over. Yes he was armed as was his right under the 2nd amendment. Did he reach for that firearm No, it was removed from his holster as he was held down, beaten and then assassinated. Cold blooded murder. Kyle Rittenhouse shot protesters, sobbed like a baby and was aquitted. Alex shot no one and was murdered. Where do we go from here? Justice for Alex, no justice no peace. Things have got to change.
And don't forget KENT STATE! 3 Dead in Ohio.
FOUR dead in Ohio. I have been corrected.
"Four dead in Ohio."
I stand corrected!
Silence is not an option.
Stephen Miller is likely relishing ICE’s implementation of his despotic worldview that only the ruthlessly brutal survive in a lawless jungle of humanity. For the record, Miller betrays not only our Constitution and founding principles but also the key tenets of Judaism, except as they are distorted by Jews who rival the cross-wearing betrayers of Jesus.
We may dream of Nuremberg Trials - perhaps held in Minneapolis? Whether or not they happen, his descendants and those of his murderous storm troopers will carry the shame of their evil for generations. May it be so.
I grew up during the Civil Rights Movement in South Central LA. I was one of a handful of white students in a black elementary school My father marched in Selma. My mother fed school children breakfast with food provided by the Black Panther's. So, I come to my current outrage naturally.
I just finished Doris Kearns Goodwin's An Unfinished Love Story. Her husband, Dick, was a senior advisor and speech writer for both JFK and LBJ. What struck me most, was the reminder that MLK was assassinated not long after he launched his War on Poverty despite the resistance of his closest associates. I think he recognized that by the US government giving blacks a say in their government and more opportunities, there would be backlash from disenfranchised and disaffected whites. I think he understood that in order for blacks to rise, disenfranchised and disaffected whites would also have to have a say in their government and increased opportunities. I think he understood that the two groups would be pitted against each other by those wishing to maintain the status quo. I think the Trumpian view of the world is that dynamic. Only, this time it is the grieved American against brown immigrants.
As I look back to the promise of The Great Society, I can't help but wonder what if . . . What if LBJ had extricated the US from Vietnam in '66 or '67 or '68? What if he brought home the troops and been president for four more years? What if Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr had not been assassinated? Would we be where we are today?
I wish I could share your fantastic article far and wide, but FB, which is my method of spreading, just suspended my account and I appealed with no success, and no further avenue. So, I regret I was too outspoken apparently and Zuck's gestapo shut me down.
FB is an afterthought media for me now as it’s purely social and to a great extent so is MSM. It took me a long time to realize it.
I care! I can’t march, but I can use my voice urgently. This must stop! NOW
I'm not sure that calling up the Guard is such a bad idea. Mayor Frey said it was needed because the city's own police force is exhausted. The guard members involved are not from some distant red state; they are locals, quite possibly very local in large part, and as pissed as anyone about ICE.
Some sort of crowd control is needed if only to be sure that protestors STAY peaceful. That actually protects them, and keeps this from turning into an excuse for the Insurrection Act.
The protestors have been doing an exemplary job of keeping calm. I watched a live broadcast of the protestors AFTER Petti was killed. They were not hurling things, were mostly standing in one place or walking around in a radius of a few feet. They were in large part staying well back from the yellow tape; those closer to that line appeared to be mostly press. As far as I could see the flash bangs, tear gas, and surge into the crowd were entirely gratuitous, possibly ordered to create a photo op of "chaos" for the viewers of Fox.
But there are always hooligans, often agents provocateurs. LOCAL forces are way preferable to ICE as a way to quell any effects such might cause. Similarly, if the crowds surround and block ICE when it is actually leaving, the danger of ICE using actual lethal force to get out rises hugely.
A blue state's guard tends to care about the community it comes from. The Guard here in WA did a tremendous job during our recent catastrophic floods. We need to make a distinction between OUTSIDE guard foisted on us by "nationalization" and the locals helping where needed. Many of us know Guard members. And I will bet you that those you know are rarely monsters. And of course it matters who they answer to: a mad president or a governor determined not to let things get to the point of the insurrection act.
There's been a lot of discussion about whether city and state cops can actually arrest bad-acting ICE agents. Supremacy clause and all that. Would it apply if the Guard did it? (Do they have the power to arrest? I don't really know).
Simply based on our state guard here, I think that one from Minnesota may be more of a force for stabilization than a force adding to the chaos,
This comes from someone who developed general principles during Vietnam of HATING the use of the military in most instances. It has taken a long time to get to the point of realizing that as a whole the grunts of Vietnam weren't really bad guys, just folks put in an untenable situation, forced to be LED by a definite cadre of bad guys. I'm not at all sure those leading the current use of the Guard in MN are bad guys at all.
We need to control our prejudices when considering this move by Walz. WATCH the guard and see whether what they do is really awful, or just necessary to keep things from getting worse. Keep in mind how your emotional response is conditioned by the regime's MISUSE of the Guard--have they succeeded in forming your opinion for you?
Thank you for your thoughts and words, again.
Mary- Much of what is happening now reminds me of a book that describes and analyzes the periods in our American history when we handed over our rights to government with often terrible results. Starting with the Alien and Sedition Acts, and then going through the Civil War, the World Wars, the McCarthy Era, 9-11 (Patriot Act) etc. ... the book is Perilous Times by Geoffrey R. Stone. I think we can safely say that Mr. Stone could now add another chapter to his book.
What’s the moment you realized “public safety” was being used to excuse force?
Kent State, 1970.
"What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?"
Tragically, the lyrics ring even more true today...
Right on 🤬🤬🤬🤬
I don't live near Minnesota, but I wish I could be there to stand with them. I'm just sickened by what's happening.
“Con Trolls” out there , the bunch with scripted permission ,Project 2025.
I don’t care about you but being here right now, I’m gonna kill any motherfucker that approaches me
Enough of this bullshit about freezing out local state authorities fuck him. I’m taking an eye for an eye and a fucking life for life.
You do that and you are playing into the regime's hands. Stay steady, the tide IS turning. Be angry but be smart.