“State Terror Has Arrived”
Got that? “State Terror Has Arrived” is the title of an article by M. Gessen, opinion writer for the NY Times. Here’s a link:
May be behind a paywall.
Here is the opening.
After the past three weeks of brutality in Minneapolis, it should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear — a fear of violence from which some people may at a given moment be spared, but from which no one will ever be truly safe. That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived.
Please look at this list with me. Since early January, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement expanded its operation in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., federal officers have: killed Renee Good, a white middle-class mother; menaced a pregnant immigration lawyer in her firm’s parking lot; detained numerous U.S. citizens, including one who was dragged out of his house in his underwear; smashed in the windows of cars and detained their occupants, including a U.S. citizen who was on her way to a medical appointment at a traumatic brain injury center; set off crowd-control grenades and a tear gas container next to a car that contained six children, including a 6-month-old; swept an airport, demanding to see people’s papers and arresting more than a dozen people who were working there; detained a 5-year-old. And now they have killed another U.S. citizen, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an I.C.U. nurse with no criminal record. It seems he was white. The agents had him down on the ground, subdued, before they apparently fired at least 10 shots at point-blank range.
Meanwhile, we know who is joining ICE… We’ve seen them countless times being their true selves before…
It’s clear to me that the thugs who want to be ICE agents are folks who in previous times would have been quickly rejected or ousted from law enforcement or military positions because of their hateful rhetoric, or criminal behavior. They have been waiting for much of their lives to “stick it to us lousy filthy liberal commie faggots” … to “give us what we deserve” … to “show us our place”… and to “own the ‘libs!” ICE has given them their chance to live out their dreams and they don’t care about any criticism from media, clergy or government representative. They are LOVING it!
There are many more of them out there, too, cheering at the FOX reports of the latest ICE outrage. They download the videos of protesters being beaten, pepper-sprayed, gassed, and killed, so they can watch them over and over and over again. As they watch, they literally are jumping up and down and cheering like they’re watching a football game. Then they are applying to ICE for their chance to do these things themselves.
It’s sometimes hard to remember that there are these people out there, but they are always around somewhere.
Call your Senator. Tell him/her not to allow more funding of ICE. Leave a message if you must. Some intern will listen to it and tally it up to tell the Senator how many are against what ICE is doing. Do it today. Please!