Operation "Midway" Blitz and the Republican policy of domestic terrorism

Anyone who wears a drop leg holster with the 
straps grinding up into their crotch is a poseur
wannabe - also look no gun (photo - Colin Boyle)

    Trump is so venal and so stupid I believe he had planned to name this Fascist Operation "Chicago Blitz" after his failed USFL team and then had to pivot to "Midway" As Governor J.B. Prtizker and Mayor Brandon Johnson made it clear they wouldn't just roll over for him.

I suppose we should be thankful he didn't name it Operation Barbarossa.

But, a good question is what has Midway Blitz accomplished since it began two weeks ago?

ICE officials have bandied about the number of 400-550 arrests made.  How credible is this number?  Who knows?  

"DHS is launching Operation Midway Blitz in honor of Katie Abraham who was killed in Illinois by a criminal illegal alien who should have never been in our country. This operation will target the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens in Chicago,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “For years, Governor Pritzker and his fellow sanctuary politicians released Tren de Aragua gang members, rapists, kidnappers, and drug traffickers on Chicago’s streets—putting American lives at risk and making Chicago a magnet for criminals. President Trump and Secretary Noem have a clear message: no city is a safe haven for criminal illegal aliens."

 Remember what I told you the goal of everything Republicans do is designed to invoke Fear & Anger in their white power base.  And he it is encapsulated in this press release from September 8th!  Be angry at Pritzker!  Fear the Tren De Aragua!

BE AFRAID WHITE PEOPLE THE DEMOCRATS MAKE DEMOCRAT CITIES ARE A MAGNET FOR BROWN CRIMINALS!

That's the other key point of Republicans propaganda is to make white people believe every Hispanic person is a priori a criminal and thus whatever happens to them (as with the murder of Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez) or the Elgin man and American citizen the DHS took out of his home without a warrant in a clear cut violation of the 4th Amendment, is their own fault; to use white peoples parlance you already committed a crime!  OR you should have followed Orders!

Tricia McLaughlin, defended the unconstitutional detention of an American citizen, by using the law enforcement trope, "briefly detained for their and the officer's safety".  This is Police Jargon you'll find in countless reports wherein an Officer has handcuffed someone without cause.  It's a huge problem... normally, but we are not in normal times we are in the Era of Fascist Paramilitary Operations.

Even one of the men arrested in that botched and unlawful raid in Elgin, whom McLaughlin falsely touted as a big oog-booga illegal threat, appears to be not a criminal;

“This is the shortest report I’ve ever seen on anybody,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hoatling said, waving his pretrial report in her hand. “He has a criminal history of nothing. … There is no danger that I see to the community whatsoever.”

 Of course, the entire dentition and arrest policies of enacted by the Racist in the Trump administration,  endorsed by the Six Sinister Supremes of the Supremacist Court, and effected by the White ICE Knights is in violation of the 4th Amendment which

explicitly protects persons and people (not citizens) and demands the minimum of Probable Cause.

But, instead every white person (and a fair number of bots) take to every Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and news story and type bloodthirsty screeds, FUCK YEAH!  GET THEM!  RAWR! as well as dEmocRATS prOteCt ILL-EAGLES hurr-durr-durr!!!  CITIZENS ONLY!!!

Now, I have nothing but respect and admiration for Dan Biss, Kat Abugahazaleh, and others who have put themselves outside the Broadview ICE Detention center and faced abuse, tear gas, and battery from the ICE Klan.  There were on-line rumors the detention center would close but, there's no fucking way Noem, Trump or any of the other villains in this maladministration would do that from protest pressure.  They fucking love the images and the brutality and love to broadcast it to their rabid racist base who see these images broadcast by Laura Inghraham in their homes in Nebraska, Alabama, or Idaho and go FUCK YEAH get them! 

Republicans yearn for blood in the streets.  Republicans love this violence.  Republicans want more.  Republicans are pushing for bigger confrontations and trying to gin up their base to engage in more domestic terrorism.  Trump and all his podcast propagandists thought they had the match with Charlie Kirk's fortunate killing but, even as the facts don't conform they are still using his death to foment violence.

So... as always be prepared.  Trump and the gang of criminals, rapists, racists, bigots, thieves, and traitors in his administration want open fighting in the streets.  They want violence and the the ability to call in the military for more direct kinetic operations against Americans.  Be brave, if you can, but be ready.