https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/ice-claims-self-defense-again-inICE has become Trump’s Gestapo à la Duvalier Tonton Macoutes, a lawless paramilitary carrying out the extreme prejudice of their leader-enablers. The sad truth is that he has emulated another narcissist {friendly-to-him for secret reasons} to the extent that he slowly turning himself and the country he feels he has total power over.
I intuit that the two ICE killings of unarmed civilians simply participating in a lawful _expression_ of protest against ICE abuse of power will mark the beginning of ICE being brought to account for their overreach !!
At 81, I am ill-inclined to put myself in harms way from poorly-led law enforcement gone wrong. My protest will be by disseminating my voice to friends in hopes of winning over those who have been duped to lose their way!
I hope against hope that the same social dynamic that makes the Internet a force to put a power-hungry, out-of-control narcissist as POTUS can be repurposed as a force for good. As these two deceased at the guns of ICE Minnesotan protestors have proved, protesting against unrestrained authority can come at great cost, namely death and its cover-up by the heirarchy sworn to protect us. It sounds overworked to refer back to the German people being led by Pied Piper Adolf Hitler over the cliff by not growing their numbers to protest where he was leading their country.
Whether the name of that country’s leader is Hitler, Stalin, Putin, Orban or MBS, their sins must be exposed before they can be halted and reversed. This takes a popular uprising against injustice, something available to day through dissemination by social media. By the same token of a brave woman filming the last fatal event of ICE murdering a Good Samaritan trying to come to the aid of a woman protesting against ICE, those two people could be any one of us.
THERE BUT BY THE GRACE of GOD GO I should be banners and bumper stickers showing solidarity with Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti.
Social Media is the means and message To Do It in the spirit of solidarity and memory of these two protestors in Minnesota who could just as easily been you and me! Let their sacrifice not be lost under the lies spewed out by the cover-up propaganda machine of the Far Right.
We are at an inflection point in American History and must choose between Democracy and Autocracy.
Are you a Thomas Paine or an acquiescent German under Hitler ?? The path of each example is written in history! Which will you Be ??