Minnesotans march against ICE
Alex Pretti, RN
Renee Good
Josh Marshall - founder and EIC of Talking Points Memo - is a Brown University PhD in American History. He looks [link above] at ICE in Minnesota and elsewhere acting as occupying soldiers - not as ordinary civilian-governed police.
We see that in their masked thuggishness. They are an occupying army, not border protection - as we see from the mass protest marches by Minnesotans in freezing northern weather.
Resistance to this form of martial rule is key now as we face a thuggish President on the offensive.
The deaths of Renee Good - a mother of three - and of Alex Pretti - an ICU nurse treating VA patients - have shocked us all. Particularly because the President, Secretary Noem and others have leapt to swift readily rebutted justifications of these killings.
We have never faced this sort of repressive wave. Not even the National Guard actions in LA, Detroit and Newark in 1965 - 1968 had the lawless character of today's repressive forces. LA, Detroit and Newark led to the National Commission on Civil Disorders - which acknowledged we were moving toward "two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal," It acknowledged the just causes of the protests and called for a national commitment to jobs, housing, education, and police reform to foster integration .
We are in particular jeopardy because the Supreme Court 6-3 in Trump v. U.S. has immunized Presidents for official acts, even for the January 6 events and for "spreading knowingly false claims of election fraud to obstruct the collecting, counting, and certifying of the election results." Elsewhere we would call that an attempted coup d'etat. We should be grateful for Jack Smith's recent defense of the prosecution of Donald Trump for attempting to block the results of an election he lost.
We should heed the call of Newark Archbishop Joseph Tobin to say NO.
- GWC
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