Death, Lies and Videotape

It's not that the protesters are ignorant, it's just that so much of what they believe isn't so!

Anti-ICE activist Renee Good, moments before her death

If you’re like me, you’ve been reading up on every aspect of the life of killed Anti-ICE protester, Renee Good, watched every one of the many videos of the incident from all different angles and listened to every second-by-second analysis of what they supposedly show. You may have even read my take on it in my previous column “Tie goes to the police.”

None of that is necessary for many of the protesters who are out in the streets in Minneapolis and across the nation attacking police officers and getting ready to burn their cities down. They’ve been told by the lying Main Stream Media and their own politicians that this poor women was just innocently sitting in her car minding her own business when she was shot in the face for no reason by the fascist federal police, and they believe it!

I wouldn’t have thought that was possible before I saw an interview of a pleasant looking black protester in Minneapolis who parroted that exact line. He vowed that he was going to start packing a gun from now on to protect himself from these “lawless” police officers.

In revolutionary terminology, these people are what is known as, “Useful idiots,” but they did not become idiots overnight. There has been a long training period extending back for many years to convince them that Orange Man is Bad, and that the people who support and work for him are “literally Nazis!” As a result they are willing to believe every outlandish lie that is dished up by those who are using them for political cover.

We know what the game is, but they have no clue. To the True Believers on the left, America is an Evil Empire, borders are bad and any effort to remove the poor migrants who are here illegally is wrong. What we see on the right, is that these 3rd World people were imported from Somalia and elsewhere to do the most important job that Americans refuse to do anymore: Vote for Democrats!

ln order to keep them on the Democrat Plantation, they have been allowed to engage in wide-spread fraud, embezzling billions of dollars of state and federal tax money in Minnesota and around the country. Much of that money flows back to the Democrat Party and the grifting party bosses, while another large share is sent to terrorist organizations back in the home country.

It doesn't matter that President Trump was elected promising to deport these illegal visitors, and that he has the continued support of a majority of the people of the country to do it. That is not what Democrats call “Our Democracy.” Their version of Democracy means that the Democrats should be in charge regardless of election results, and if the voters are not smart enough to realize that, then it’s OK to cheat and steal the elections.

Many of us knew at the time that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen. The most telling thing to me was that, when I asked my liberal friends if Trump was so evil that it was justified to cheat to keep him out of office, they all refused to answer the question. They refused because, deep in their bleeding liberal hearts, they knew the answer was yes.

As I explained in a previous column, such people are called TWANLOCs (Those Who Are No Longer Our Countrymen.) Although they constantly speak of Truth, Justice and the American Way, they don’t actually believe in the American Way anymore, and in fact, that iconic phrase has been removed from all Superman comics, TV shows and movies. Can’t let the rubes get the wrong idea!

Interpretation of the video evidence has now become a team sport. While protest supporters claim that the woman was not trying to run over the officer, Conservatives are convinced she was. There is precious little room in the middle, for a more nuanced interpretations such as I offered, that while she probably did not intend to hurt the officer, from the officer’s point of view, he could reasonably conclude that she did.

There is fallacious logic on both sides. She was a trained Anti-ICE activist, therefore she must have wanted to kill the officer. Huh? If, God forbid, she had killed him, l think she could have been convicted of, at best, some degree of Manslaughter, “causing a death negligently or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice.”

But that is not good enough for many of my compatriots on the right. They insist that, not only would she be guilty of 1st Degree Murder, but that her “wife” who had gotten out of the car to film the episode, should be charged as an Accessory to Murder because she apparently shouted encouragement to Renee to drive off. That’s pretty thin gruel!

I believe they both came to the scene to obstruct the ICE agents and they thought it was all a big game. I don’t think they planned to murder anybody, but they found out that sometimes when you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes, or as we say in the modern vernacular, FAFO!

With the crazy incitement of Blue State politicians, this whole situation may have gone too far to turn back now. They clearly want more blood and destruction to slow down the Trump Juggernaut that is sweeping up their last hope to hold on to money and power. The other side has had enough and wants to take them on with maximum force now. God help the Republic!

So we find ourself back on “Dover Beach,” as described in the 1867 poem by Matthew Arnold:

And here we are on a darkling plain,
swept by confused alarms of struggle and flight,
where ignorant armies clash by night.