ICE Agents actions are reminiscent of Blackwater in Iraq. Can the Illinois Safe-T act provide relief?

Fascism is just Colonialism turned inward, Aimé Césaire

     The actions of ICE agents in and around Chicagoland are criminal and unconstitutional.  As I watch them here in Illinois and in other states I am struck by their similarity to the actions of Blackwater assholes, actions which I saw firsthand, in Iraq and Afghanistan.  ICE use of force is blatantly illegal and violate state law and much federal law built around the 4th Amendment.

Much of the MAGA doctrine towards people in the targeted cities has been to treat them as a foreign occupied peoples and to ignore all manner of laws including the supreme law the Constitution.

ICE claimed the woman shot them
and had 10 cars ramming and 
blocking them in.
Doesn't appear to be true...

I wonder if the Illinois Safe-T Act could be a recourse to be used against them?  Now, I know the immediate rejoinder is Federal Supremacy and The Kavanaugh Stops doctrine.  So, Faux News Fascists and Republicans will say ICE can do whatever they want to these criminal "illegal aliens" and the protestors who are "threatening" the lives of agents.

But, that's not the angle I'm thinking of;  the Safe-T Act puts an obligation onto Illinois Officers (from patrol all the way to various Chiefs and Sheriffs), a duty to intervene.  Now while this was drafted in the wake of the George Floyd murder and in response to repeated Officer involved extrajudicial killings of mainly unarmed black people, this law is written that Officers must take an active hand to stop excessive force or violations of a person's constitutional rights committed by law enforcement.

50 ILCS 705/6.3)
    Sec. 6.3. Discretionary decertification of full-time and part-time law enforcement officers.
    (a) Definitions. For purposes of this Section 6.3:
    "Duty to intervene" means an obligation to intervene to prevent harm from occurring that arises when: an officer is present, and has reason to know (1) that excessive force is being used or that any constitutional violation has been committed by a law enforcement official; and (2) the officer has a realistic opportunity to intervene. This duty applies equally to supervisory and nonsupervisory officers. If aid is required, the officer shall not, when reasonable to administer aid, knowingly and willingly refuse to render aid as defined by State or federal law. An officer does not violate this duty if the failure to render aid is due to circumstances such as lack of appropriate specialized training, lack of resources or equipment, or if it is unsafe or impracticable to render aid. 
    "Excessive use of force" means using force in violation of State or federal law.

Hessian Trump to send
Foreign Mercenaries
into Sovereign States 

Now, understand I'm not touting this as a "One Weird Trick stops ICE in their tracks" panacea and I'm certain Governor J.B Pritzker, his staff, and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul have been throughly briefed and apprised of this.  But, it might be time We, the People put the onus on sworn Illinois law enforcement to take an active hand to the crimes and unconstitutional actions of ICE occurring directly in front of them.

Let me say no person should want to put some rookie officer to the test on the street in this scenario but, that's what Police training is ostensibly supposed to cover, and no rational sane person would be pushing to have a confrontation between Municipal and/or State police and Federal "Officers" but, this is the Republican Party we are dealing with; everyone in it is certifiably insane or in the grips of full-blown fascist fever.  Like Stephen Miller who spent his weekend screaming racist invective against Judges, elected officials, and the Democratic Party broadly.  One of the Judges, Diane Goodstein of South Carolina had her house burned down severely injuring her husband after Stephen Miller attacked her on Twitter (X).

MAGA and ICE are pushing further and further, Trump routinely suggests murdering Democrats as he did today in one of diarrhea filled rallies this time to have a crowd of Naval Midshipmen forced to listen.  

Fascism never cedes power peacefully and giddy Republicans are a fully-fascist organization which is already unlawfully using force on people here and abroad.  It's only going to increase;  make sure you are ready.

Update:

        I see Traitor Trump's plan to take control of the California National Guard and send them to and fro this time into Oregon was blocked by District Judge Karin Immergut, this shows there is still value in using the tools of the State against the vile fascist traitors in the Trump administration.  In response, dementia riddled Trump again regaled his loving Corporate Media stenographers with tales of Portland having burned to the ground yet again, screaming,

“Portland is burning to the ground.  It’s insurrectionists all over the place. It’s antifa, and yet the politicians are petrified. Look, the politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason that they say like there’s nothing happening, and you’ve seen it. The place is burning down and they pretend like there’s nothing happening.”

The Kavanaugh Stops and the Stephen Miller Raids

“I see the guns and badges in this room. You are unleashed. The handcuffs you’re carrying, they’re not on you anymore, they’re on the criminals. And whatever you need to get it done, we’re gonna get it done.”- Stephen Miller to Memphis area Police 10/02/25

Unconstitutional and Unconscionable...

What goes around comes around

It's easy to see why Brett Kavanaugh is authorizing this; he is still angry at his Senate confirmation hearings where his past criminal sexual abuse antics were aired out for the Nation to see, so he's going to hurt a lot of people to get even.  The Kavanaugh Stops he's authored, in direct violation of the 4th Amendment and numerous judicial precedents such as Terry v. Ohio, are being used against American citizens and other people in the United States in direct violation of Due Process and the Constitution.

There are numerous violations happening across the Nation and the frequency and severity are increasing;

In Manitowoc, Wisconsin 21 people snatched as they work the dairy farms.  No one can get information.  Local Police won't answer questions.  ICE makes all sorts of claims as to the people taken being wanted for sex crimes.

In Chicago, journalists pepper balled while documenting ICE activities, in other places journalists thrown to beaten and thrown to the ground, or "assisted to the ground while falling" in Police jargon.

Arresting a local Chicago Alderperson Jesse Fuentes in a hospital for "obstruction" because ICE wanted to take some person being treated from the ER.  Brutally arresting a mentally disabled Oak Park man at a protest and then trying to have him held without bond because they didn't like him bad mouthing ICE agents in Broadview.

And local police are not safe from this activities, as the Police Chief of Broadview talked about how ICE Agents belittled him, denigrated him, and routinely indiscriminately shot tear gas towards Broadview Officers.  This is a classic bullying pattern where first ICE will browbeat and taunt local police officers to help, then they will low-key inadvertently hit them with "less lethal" weapons, and then local police will become targets unless they help.

But, the nighttime raid in Chicago a few days ago, with multiple atrocious violations to the rights and dignity of innocent people involved, with little children separated from their parents and zip-tied, where American citizens were held for hours outside in scant clothing is as I wrote Unconstitutional and Unconscionable but, is exactly he revenge Brett Kavanaugh promised he would mete out on the Nation.

Each of these actions grants ICE the ability to take energy and expand their unconstitutional actions further.  They need little encouragement from Kristi Noem or Stephen Miller but they get it in abundance.

The Constitution and the guardrails for the Democratic Republic have failed.  Of course, there has never been a system designed or developed which could withstand the concerted bad faith efforts of the Republican Party to infiltrate and subvert it.  50 years ago, when Nixon was forced to resign, Republicans determined never to put the Nation above Party and here we are...  Additional propaganda efforts by rightwingers have convinced a significant portion of people (many white men and women) to jettison their belief and support of liberty, freedom, and the democratic order.

So, ICE and Republicans can intone the magic words "Illegal aliens" or "Tren de Aragua" and therefore break every law, break every good technique for responsible policing, break every constitutional protection, and do whatever they hell they feel like to those people and whites cheer louder and louder at each abuse.

And very quickly you saw how libertarians, conservatives, limited government types, who touted Constitutional Law&Order and rights and freedoms said, HAHAHA Fuck you!  Yes! Yes! YES!!!  As they swoon and ejaculate to the images and stories of brutality being doled out indiscriminately towards those people.

The Corporate Media loves Trump and
yearns for him to rule as a Dictator 

The Republican campaign of Fear&Anger is bearing its' awful fruit as rights and due process are just being wildly violated by the ICE Klan.  White people do not believe these actions will ever rebound on them and despite the overused Ben Franklin quote about safety and liberty, white people have made an agreement with Republicans to exchange your liberties for their safety.

ICE is the ultimate outside agitators.  The men doing this have signed up for this type of duty; be deployed to a city made up of minorities and terrorize them all under the color of law.  

Trump and his Proud Boy ICE Army absolutely want to treat American cities as occupied terrority.  Right now they are out of control and acting as a careless occupying army.  They've also learned Trump's trick of committing crimes and misconduct non-stop so that the media is always behind on the scandals and most of them never get talked about let alone dissected.

ICE is going to keep pushing and committing crimes and Republicans are going to keep hoping a line is crossed and we have a deadly confrontation because then Trump will order military action.  And while the Union and social contract are already broken, that inflection point is the final breaking of the United States

I wrote before either White peoples fascist fever breaks or the Nation does... 

Trump prepares top military leaders and the American people for the “Shoot to Kill” order

 You know it’s coming… There’s only two reasons to bring all military heads together; a decapatation strike or the enforce a loyalty oath...

This is what Trump expected

Fortunately, it appears Donald Traitor Trump and Triple SecDef Pete Kegsbreath (HegsMeth?) brought the entire  Flag Officer corps, and of course their entire retinues, to Quantico for a pale facsimile of a Tony Robbins speech or CPAC appearance.  

Apparently, Trump and Hegseth expected a CPAC level of response from the Generals and Admirals and senior enlisted was more muted than he wanted,

And if you want to applaud, you applaud. And if you want to do anything you want, you can do anything you want. And if you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room.  Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.  

Of course, Trump's ego was fulfilled by having all these big strong men saying Sir with tears in their eyes while he spouted his insane verbal diarrhea rife with lies and his bullshit claims of solving 7 wars... but, he also claimed to have solved the fighting in Israel and Palestine...

I have settled so many wars since we’re here. We’re here almost nine months, and I’ve settled seven. And yesterday, we might have settled the biggest of them all.  Although, I don’t know. Pakistan-India was very big. Both nuclear powers.  I settled that. But yesterday is — could be the settlement in the Middle East. That hasn’t happened for 3,000 years.  I said, How long have you been fighting? 3,000 years, sir. That’s a long time. But we got it, I think, settled.

Traitor Trump even brought up to this room of august and serious people his ultimate lie about the 2020 election being rigged and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine happening because he wasn't President.  I could go on and on about Trump's lies, insane boasts but, it's immaterial and you can read it here if you so wish.  Whites love this man more than themselves and their families.  He's building up to the big inflection point and that's what he told these senior enlisted and high-ranking military members.  Trump told them, in not even very coded language, he plans to use the military to control the United States.

[W]hat they’ve done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles — they’re very unsafe places, and we’re going to straighten them out one by one.   

And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. That’s a war, too. It’s a war from within. 

And I told Pete we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military — National Guard, but military — because we’re going into Chicago very soon. That’s a big city with an incompetent governor.  They need the military desperately.  

How about Portland? Portland, Oregon, where it looks like a war zone. And I get a call from the liberal governor.  Sir, please don’t come in. We don’t need you. I said, Well, unless they’re playing false tapes, this looked like World War II.  Your place is burning down. I mean, you must be kidding. Sir, we have it under control.  I said, You don’t have it under control, Governor, but I’ll check it and I’ll call you back. I called him back. I said, You, this place is a nightmare. 

That’s what the oath says, foreign and domestic. Well, we also have domestic. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, George Bush, and others all used the armed forces to keep domestic order and peace.  Many of our leaders used the military to keep peace.  

Now they like to say, oh, you’re not allowed to use the military. And you know what the people say, the people in those cities where they’re being raped and shot and beat up? You know what they say? We love the military. 

You ever see where they interview the people on the street? I’ve never seen somebody say they don’t, unless they’re radical and paid off. Because a lot of these insurrectionists are paid by — whether it’s Soros or other people, but they’re paid by the radical left. So today, I want to thank every service member, from general to private.

I understand the people who aren't super worried because Traitor Trump says lots of shit, and if this was Sean Hannity spewing his nightly racist invective I wouldn't be worried but, this is the President, such as he is, and when he gives the order to send the military to "restore order" or "make America safe again" or whatever, it's going to be a big stress point for the Nation.  I don't know what will happen but, while no one should want such a potentiality to come to pass MAGA world definitely wants it to happen.  So... I think we are unfortunately going to find out...

An Undeclared War with Venezuela and a Declared War on America (Operation: Full Force Portland)

        

A precursor of Operation: FULL FORCE Portland
You have No Rights a Republican is bound to respect

 One tenet of faith amongst rightwingers in America that Portland, Oregon burned to the ground perhaps as many as 5 or 6 times due to Joe Biden, BLM, George Soros, and insert whatever fact-free rightwing conspiracy theory you've encountered.

So, when Traitor Trump took to his phone to declare he was ordering Pete Hegsmeth to send "Troops to protect War ravaged Portland"... "under siege from attack by Antifa" understand Republicans across the country have crafted a wholly separate reality in their heads completely divorced from reality.

I was in Portland in early July and, of course, Trump and Faux News are completely lying about the city.  Now, to get to the reality what Republicans hate about Portland is obvious;  1st they absolutely loathe that Portland is an LGBTQ open and friendly city, with its' official slogan Keep Portland Weird.  Additionally, Portland has incredibly nice neighborhoods but, when some soybean fucker from Nebraska thinks of city he'll only imagine the "downtown" as Portland and the central downtown city has a large and very visible homeless community.  Republicans hate homeless people and yearn, like Trump, to round them up and eliminate them. 

But, perhaps most importantly, Traitor Trump makes these War on American cities proclamations to harass and hurt his enemies.  Trump's entire modus operandi is too cause pain and suffering.  Now, while there is a good chance the MAGA traitors plans will not come to fruition in Portland (or Memphis) there will still be collateral damage from the ICE Klan conducting Unconstitutional raids, arrests, and violence onto innocent people.  It's happened in Chicago as has been widely documented and will happen to Portland.

First, get it out of your head that local Police are going to disobey clearly unlawful or unconstitutional orders, Police Officers have been waiting for years to bash skulls and beat up whole classes of people.

Also, lose any notion that paid rightwing podcast propagandists will come out against the actions of ICE, the National Guardsmen, and law enforcement they never believed a word of liberty or freedom they uttered.

Meanwhile, The Constitution is dead letter law and is disregarded, willfully misconstrued, inverted, or ignored by Republican judges whenever the outcome disagrees with their preconceived conclusions. 

And finally, don't expect any help from any Republican at any level of government;  the Republican Party is a fully-fascist from top-to-bottom organization that sees any dissent or discontent as a threat to be attacked using the full awesome power of the State.

Understand quite clearly, you have no rights a Republican is bound to respect.  Whether that be home or abroad.

What if Charlie Kirk was on that boat?

        In the HBO mini-series Chernobyl many Americans scoffed at the idea of "Political Officers" giving the orders to the military and civilian experts.  The Political Officers were seen denying facts and reality, and making false declarations to conform to Party doctrine and this was lampooned and critiqued numerous times throughout the series.

Yet...  here we are in the United States...  with a whole Corps of MAGA Political Officers dictating to experts on every field that reality must conform with MAGA beliefs and received wisdom.

So, Stephen Miller is apparently directing the US Navy to blow up these Venezuelan boats in international waters.  How pathetic, a thin-decked pustule ordering career Naval Officers to make unlawful strikes on unarmed civilian boats.  I wondered if the military would Just Follow Orders and that question is being answered. 

But, the reason the Laws of War and the 4th Amendment exists, is so some warmongering chickenshit bureaucrat can't declare you to be a "nacro-terrorist" and have you summarily blow up by the US Military.

Republicans hate America, loathe its' laws and traditions, and are in the midst of destroying the Nation in order to create the NeoConfederate White Power Nation they've always yearned to be Masters of...

But, while Republicans and their paramilitary domestic terrorists are acting as though they will never face any consequences for their actions, and, sadly, that is most likely the case, We, the People can not allow them to have the luxury of that belief.

"Chicago looks like a Warzone"

     For decades Republicans have called Chicago, a veritable hellhole and a no-go zone for good god-fearin' christian rural whites, i.e. Real Americans.  So it's been a shibboleth on the right to have Republicans go on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows and attack Chicago and other large cities, especially after yet another white rightwing male conducted a mass shooting.   Now, I always believed this was a low-key dogwhistle for conservative to scream 'Blacks and Crime' and to politicize a tragedy whilst protecting the NRA and massive well-funded gun manufacturing lobby but, apparently having built the scaffolding it's easy to apply this frame of reference to Hispanic people.

For example, I mean, in Chicago- Chicago is a nightmare. It is literally a war zone, 

That's Rand Paul on Sunday morning ABC News (remember Sunday Talk Shows have to have a Republican on when it's a Republican controlled government because they are in power and Sunday Talk Shows have to have a Republican on when it's a Democratically led government because they need both sides coverage).  So, really Senator Rand Paul?  Why does Chicago look like a Warzone?  Could it be because Republicans have sent Federal Troops into Chicago in an effort to pacify it like Fallujah?

Tin soldiers and Trump is coming...

Broadview, Illinois or a FOB in occupied Iraq...

You might know it as Yakety Sax but, it will forever be
the Benny Hill Theme song to me...

Understand the current Generation of Republicans has wanted to invade and treat American cities like Iraq for decades now.  Tom Cotton was given space in The Fucking New York Times to call just for that back in 2020.  Republicans do not see the majority of the people living in the United States and even American citizens as deserving of rights and freedoms.

So, yesterday in light of multiple mass shootings in Republican controlled states and regions, Donald Trump upon realizing he couldn't gin up anger at Trans people or Democratic Governors had nothing to say on Truth Social, except to plug how much 24 karat gold he's glided the White Shit House in...

So, right now we have avoided the worst possibility but, Trump, Stephen Miller, Kash Patel, Kristi Noem, and whatever other ghoulish criminal you can name are going to keep pushing to get the casus belli they need to give the the "Open Fire" order as Republicans yearn to blood in the streets of liberal cities.

Yet another rightwing domestic terrorist attack at a place of Worship

Another white rightwing domestic terrorist

 Actually, there have been multiple mass shootings, in the last two days most in heavily armed, Republican controlled states.

The mass shooting, truck used as a weapon, and intentional arson on the Mormon church in Grand Blanc, Michigan is getting all the attention.

By the way, disgusting rapist Donald Trump isn’t incessantly Truth Social posting about these multiple mass shootings because he can’t use them to radicalize his cult.

But, here's the thing, just like with Charlie Kirk's killing, the earlobe nicking of Traitor Trump, and the man who murdered three innocent immigrants who were unable to avoid being sniped, this perpetrator is another white male rightwing killer.

White rightwing males are the most dangerous animals on the planet.  When they aren't slaughtering their so-called "loved ones" they take out their white rage on groups of innocent people or assassinate officials.

We knew this was brewing 16 years ago when President Obama's homeland security released a detailed report on the threat of violent white extremists, at which point Republicans and violent white rightwing extremists threatened to engage in domestic terrorism unless the report was withdrawn.

But, then Republican bullshit began to happen as Republicans and their paid podcast propagandists simply began to lie about who was doing the shootings.  They started blaming Trans people and engaged in non-stop lies about massive left-wing violence.

We are in the midst of a tidal wave of Republican and rightwing terrorism we have't seen since conservatives lost the since civil war.  And now almost as bad as the rightwing domestic terrorist attacks is the broad state-sponsored violence being directed at innocent people by Trump's Nazi ICE agents.

This Republican fomented violence is not going to abate anytime soon.  Violence from Nazis never ends on its' own.

Charles Tillman peanut punches Traitor Trump's illegal orders as Republicans purge the FBI of Agents interested in Justice

        Kash Patel at the behest of on-line rightwing bigots have fired 15-20 FBI agents who dared to "take a knee" during the George Floyd protests in 2020. Now, whether the agents did it in solidarity or to reduce tensions and deescalate the protests is debatable but, what's always important is the message Trump and his cabal of bigots and racists seek to send at every opportunity. You have NO FUCKING RIGHTS any Republican is bound to respect.

Remember the standard Republican response to protests and dissent is to enflame the situation, turn up their violent response to 100%, and engage in non-stop aggression to "neutralize the threat".  This was demonstrated in 2014 when racist Missouri Officers decided to engage in "full-force" combat against demonstrators.

As every seasoned Officer knows, if your response is full hands-on then you have to maintain that level as you can never back down.  So it's best and wisest to mirror force or to engage in dialogue in order to reduce tension and de-escalate the situation.

Republicans want to murder you

Republicans have no intention of deescalation.  Republicans want to escalate confrontation so that they may engage in mass murder.

Charles Tillman was one of the three or four best defenders on the Bears teams of the 2000's, coached by Love Smith, including the team which went to the 2006 Super Bowl.  Tillman holds the NFL record for most forced fumbles in a season with (10) thanks to his laser aimed "Peanut Punch".  It's almost unheard of for a defensive back to be amongst the top NFL players in forced fumbles as only Brain Dawkins and Charles Woodson are in the top 50 all time the rest of the players being all time great linebackers and .   I shook his hand one night while working when he visited a local business;  As strong a grip as Walter Payton.

Tillman joined the FBI after his football career working for 8 years.  And now he's called it quits.  Why?  Because of the unlawful orders being given to FBI Officers from the Trump Administration.

"I didn’t agree with how the administration came in and tried to make individuals do things against their morals. … it didn’t sit right. An example being immigration. Everybody was told, ‘You’re going to go after the most dangerous criminals.’ But what you see on TV and what actually was happening was, people weren’t going after that. Personally that didn’t sit right with me, that didn’t sit right with my conscience. You have the ability to refuse an order.”

"I want to be on the right side of history when it’s all said and done." 

Charles Tillman is, of course, financially secure from his playing days in the NFL to afford to step down, others looking at the loss of employment, black-balling by deplorable Republican bigots in Government, and no prospect of a pension in old age will always find it harder to not follow illegal orders.

But, Tillman is also correct that the Trump directives and Kash Patel led FBI is not going after the "most dangerous criminals" but, instead is just racially profiling and picking up people for the crime of being Hispanic or Latino, 

Republican humor

Immigrants with no criminal record are now the largest group in US immigration detention, according to data released by the government. The number of people with no criminal history arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and detained by the Trump administration has now surpassed the number of those charged with crimes.

According to the official data, 16,523 people in immigration detention with no criminal record were arrested by Ice, compared to 15,725 who do have a criminal record and 13,767 with pending criminal charges.

That's according to the data from Department of Homeland Security themselves and at no point should you trust anything the Trump administration, Republican Party, or this Government every says about anything.

Always, always, always remember this isn't about Law&Order but, about Power and as you all know well from Orwell, Republicans demonstrate their power by making people suffer.

Everyone opposed to Trump is Antifa and thus a Terrorist

    The reason the 4th amendment exists is so some thin-dicked, light-bulb head, ghoulish government bureaucrat can not declare you a member of “ Antifa”, or a “narco-terrorist”, or an “illegal” and have masked unidentified paramilitary goons kidnap you and extraordinarily rendition you to some fucking foreign blacksite.

Trump's declaration that Antifa is a terrorist organization is not grounded in any intelligence or hard-work by law enforcement but, a political shibboleth designed to allow Trump and his gaggle of podcast propagandists to declare whomever the want to be "Antifa" and have them arrested without due process.

But… and let me make you absolutely clear on what’s going on here Republicans feel no compunction and have zero fear these actions will ever be turned around and applied to them, whilst white bigots get aroused and engorged at the thought of Law Enforcement hurting brown people they are also gliding through life as though these actions could never, ever be done to them.

Tori Branum took credit for the ICE Raid on Hyundai
which arrested South Koreans here LEGALLY  
She's a PFT FAIL and MAGA plastic surgery is awful
She's running for Office in Georgia

Also, understand yet again that for decades Republicans and rightwingers have said you can not trust the Government, can't trust their actions and proclamations and people are now stunned by how these same people seemingly embrace the narratives put forth by Goebbels Miller or by Kristi Noem, or KKKaroline Leavitt, or Tricia McLaughlin, or Tom Homan, or whomever.  

Republicans never believed in what they said, they only used it as rhetorical cudgel to bash the left, to undermine Democratic President's and Democratic Congressional goals.  As soon as Republicans gained power they rapidly jettisoned their so-called beliefs, morals, norms, ethics, principles, and now the Constitution in order to do what they always wanted to do; hurt millions of people.

So, the declaration of Antifa is designed to threaten high level activists with arrest, to frighten people from protesting in the first place, and to undermine funding for Democratic groups.  But, I have no doubt someone on the Left is going to be threatened with arrest by Pam Bondi or Karoline Leavitt or Traitor Trump himself as a Terrorist and Republicans know by naming and doxxing people, rightwingers will descend on-line to threaten to murder them and demand they be fired.

Chicago Cubs 3B Matt Shaw attended the trashy Charlie KKKirk Rally

Who's going to have to clean up the latest mess
Republicans have made of America?

When Shaw was asked about his attendance he claimed to have met Kirk in Arizona during Cubs Spring Training and the two connected over their faith and Kirk's Cubs Fandom, 

“He texted me after every game, ‘Great win for the Cubbies.’ And he was super, super supportive of us, and obviously someone who’s really faithful.  I’m not concerned at all, no,” Shaw said. “My connection with Charlie was through our faith, and that’s something that drives me every day."

Shaw claimed his teammates have been very supportive.  I wonder how many of them know Kirk was a notorious racist, loved gun violence, and mocked his political opponents when they were injured by crime or rightwing domestic terrorism.  The people in support of Shaw or of the Charlie KKKirk Klan Rally in Arizona in general appear to be treating that despicable spectacle as though it was a somber, dignified ceremony where Kirk was praised and remembered with grace instead of a thinly veiled Triumph of the Will production.

Besides the vile fascist bloodthirsty rhetoric of Pyscho Stephen Miller, which I highlighted previously, it also included the erstwhile President of the United States proclaiming,

“That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them. I’m sorry."

MAGA shits on the Flag and trashes the Nation

and that doesn't even mention the schlocky merchandise for sale, Erikkka Kirk's DEI elevation to the head of Turning Points USA, or the massive mountains of trash created by the event goers.  Or the Grindr outages at the festival...

But, trashing America is the goal of MAGA.  For years the Corporate Media has gas-light the American people into believing that Trump/MAGA simply have different ideas on what's best for all Americans.  They don't. Republicans led by Trump and their cultish followers hate America and yearn to see the Government hurt, imprison, and kill many people. 

And let's not gloss over the Cancel Culture attacks conservatives have undertaken with gusto against anyone pointing out Charlie Kirk was a disgusting bigot, despicable racist, and glorified gun deaths and violence. Proving yet again the worst sin you can make in America is to accurately quote a right-winger or Republican.  Furthermore, anyone shocked at the hypocrisy of rightwingers seemingly not adhering to the "principles" of free speech they so ardently claimed to support simply doesn't understand that Republicans get off on being massive hypocrites, it's a fascist favorite game to hold completely different standards for you than for themselves.  Indeed a key hallmark of Fascism is the unequal application of laws, norms, values, and traditions depending upon who is in question. 

Rightwing domestic terrorism in Dallas and Rising Republican Bloodlust and 4 straight days of non-stop embarrassment

The cries of this widow have begun to echo...  
A white rightwing domestic terrorist shot 3
"evil-doers" at an ICE detention center
in Dallas before killing himself

“The evildoers... responsible for my husband’s assassination... have no idea what they’ve done. They killed Charlie... You have no idea what you have just unleashed across this entire country.  The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry."    

 I started writing this post about Trump's incredibly ridiculous, mentally insane, and ridiculous appearance at the UN and then rightwingers calling for murder at the UN because Trump's team of incompetents apparently broke the escalator.

But, these days of embarrassment were far from over and the violence Republicans wish to unleash upon all Americans is rising...

These United States are dead.  This is not a doom and gloom post but, simply an acknowledgment of the current situation and of the heavy slog in front of Us.

After RFK Jr declared he solved why Autism happens by blaming acetaminophen and Trump took the podium to to blame Tylenol (because he can't pronounce acetaminophen) and yet again the Corporate Media did their best to cover for him.

Understand in Republican parlance this is actually blaming women for taking the Tylenol not the medication itself, because Republicans hate women and yearn to see them returned to a docile role of making children, because as J.D. Vance's personal spiritual preacher Doug Wilson has repeatedly stated, "women are the kind of people that real people come out of..."

Now, while Republican plans for decades have been to crush The American Dream and return the vast majority of the Nation into perpetual Corporate Bondage and Wage Slavery, there are many others unaligned with the right who (perhaps correctly) believe they won't have a better standard of living than their parents or grandparents.  For them the post World War 2 liberal order of America is no longer responsive to their hopes and aspirations, with crushing medical debt, stagnating wages and ever slimmer benefits and pensions.  But, while they abandoned hope in the Democratic Party, white people were sought after by Republicans and inundated with anger and fear and taught to hate the Country as it was in the latter 20th century and now in the early 21st century; hence MAGA.

Republicans weaponized their subversion and undermining of the Government and cultivated racism and sexism.  After all, Republicans entire political platform has been Government doesn't work and doesn't represent you white people and then once elected they work to ensure their claims are true, thus further reinforcing their hold upon white people.  And the Democratic Party has seemingly not figured out how to respond to the 50-year Republican assault other than to rely on extremely charismatic leaders, like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama but, this isn't too blame them for Republican perfidy.

My contention is; since the Lewis Powell memo and forced resignation of Richard Nixon, Republicans have worked to subvert and destroy the social safety net, the new deal, workers rights, civil rights, environmental protections and everything else that makes living more than just the drudgery of labor and the dread of losing the meager standard of living most Americans find themselves shunted into by Republican political policies.

But, I don't believe regular Normie Americans realize the levels of rising bloodlust consuming the Right and which Republicans are on the cusp of unleashing on all of us.  Let's be clear there are segments of society already facing despicable state-sponsored violence.  Remember "Alligator Alcatraz", well according to the Trump Government they are unclear where 1500 people once housed there currently are located.  But, Republicans crossed a terrible line with their bloodlust after Kirk's "unfortunate" murder.

Republicans screamed for War and mass murder immediately, and even when the facts of the shooter; a Republican white mormon male, raised in gun culture, radicalized by violent video games, and on-line toxic fascist rhetoric, they didn't stop blaming "the evil-doers".

And this Horst Wessel Rally for good Nazi Kirk was a storm of violent rhetoric, imagery, and the yearning to engage in mass murder.  Here's Nazi Stephen Miller at the Rally;

“Erika is the storm. We are the storm. And our enemies cannot comprehend our strength, our determination, our resolve, our passion. We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil. They cannot imagine what they have awakened. They cannot conceive of the army that they have arisen in all of us."  I suggest you read his entire bloodthirsty speech.

Who the fuck is they?  I ask... but you already know...  Look I know Stephen Miller ain't going to be putting any combat duty, he's a Political Officer, his job is to spit vitriol and hatred and to get others to do the murdering.  And as we can see in Dallas today, incidents of murder by rightwing domestic terrorists are simply going to increase.  The inflection point is coming, best be prepared because Republicans are going to call for the mass murder of every non-MAGA person.

Update:

Holy Fuck, the FBI is manufacturing evidence and putting it out on Twitter immediately after a shooting!  To call this unseemly and unprofessional is to underemphasize how bad and how fucked the Nation is...

But, remember this all the evidence Ben SShapiro and other rightwing podcast propagandists will need to definitely declare the shooter to be a "Leftist" or Trans...

ICE straight-up murdered Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez

     And Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security immediately and wantonly lied about the incident in order to control the narrative and to deny the murdered man's due process.

Edited: The Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Tribune obtained body cam footage from the responding Franklin Park Police. ICE Klan members are not wearing body cameras as they are Federal Officers and not subject to Illinois requirements.  Traitor Trump rescinded federal directives about body cameras for DOJ officers.

As of right now, because of gross incompetence by the Trump DOJ there is no clear-cut answer to what Agency is going to investigate the shooting.  Illinois State Police investigate Officer involved shootings throughout the State but, while it would seem to be a job for the FBI Kash Patel is a joke of an incompetent and Dan Bogino is a piss-drinking fascist lackey.  Instead Noem and the Department of Homeland Security is going to investigate themselves and conclude they were right all along...

This shooting is also a BLACK LETTER LAW violation of the 1985 SCOTUS ruling Tennessee V. Garner which is clear using deadly force (i.e. the Ultimate Seizure under the Constitution) to stop an escape is an explicit Violation of the 4th Amendment.  There's also the question of Officer-induced jeopardy where an Officer can't claim self-defense because he put himself into harm's way unreasonably. Of course, the ICE Klan is simply going to use the get out of jail for killing a minority card by claiming to "Fear for his life"...  

Now, I write it's a clear Constitutional violation but, under the White Supremacist Court and with the raging White-lash of the last 15 years it's undeniable this Court would never rule against the killer ICE Officer. Not that the case will ever make it to the court as the Trump Department of Justice would never, ever pursue a civil rights violation case under code 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeing as one of the first things the Trump Department of Injustice did was drop the clear cut bribery case against criminal human thumb Tom Homan.

Remember White People are conditioned in this country to immediately blame the person murdered by Law Enforcement for not complying and white people absolutely believe every hispanic or black person walking around the country is a criminal who simply hasn't been caught yet thus making their mistreatment, or rights' violations, and even their murders not only acceptable but warranted. 

As Chief Nazi Charlie Kirk said repeatedly of "Blacks", "Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more. – The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023

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.

An ICE murder in Franklin Park, Illinois

    While Republicans, Nazis, and Corporate Media feverently try to turn Charlie Kirk into some kind of sainted martyr by ignoring what he said, did, and advocated for and by censoring and attacking anyone who quotes what Kirk said, did, and advocated for, whilst still lying about the motives of his killer, the Traitor Trump ICE Klan began operations in and around Chicago entitled Midway Blitz.

As always, Republicans spend their time coming up with these too cutesy names for their racist garbage but, naming the operation means there should be some kind of detailed order of operations or dossiers on the people they are tasked to apprehend;  now, I write this knowing this is most likely only true in the most vague sense.  While ICE is undoubtedly using NCIC and FBI databases for criminal name checks, those databases don't provide reliable information to be used in and of themselves to detain someone.  So, instead the Trumpstapho is going to rely on Boofer O'Kavanugh's racial profiling apologia from the Supremacist Court ruling; 

Moreover, as for stop of this individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.

Boofer just eviscerates the 4th Amendment here...  as a Police Officer one of the prime protections of the 4th Amendment is you can't just stop someone and demand they explain themselves;  these protections were encapsulated in the the 1968 ruling Terry v. Ohio and in the 1985 ruling Tennessee v. Garner. 

This Supremacist Court has removed that protection for an entire class of people based solely on their Race and color (and location).  It's a fucking infuriating.

But, we live in a time of ascendent fascism and outright and open constitutional violations of law.  ICE Agents have already been caught perjuring themselves in Court but the concept of Officer lying under oath, i.e. "Testilying" has been around for a long time.

So, of course ICE was going to lie about their killing of Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez.  From the Unraveled News story, What Happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez;

Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, confirmed by the Mexican consulate as a 38-year-old Mexican citizen from the state of Michoacán. An unidentified ICE agent fatally shot him in the heavily Latine Chicago suburb of Franklin Park during what DHS described as a “vehicle stop,” according to an official statement.

“He refused to follow law enforcements [sic] commands and drove his car at law enforcement officers,” the statement reads. “One of the ICE officers was hit by the car and dragged a significant distance. Fearing for his own life, the officer fired his weapon.“

Bystander videos and eyewitness accounts, however, tell a different story. 

Security footage near the scene in Franklin Park, as reported by CBS, shows two plainclothes agents approaching a silver sedan that had been blocked off by an unmarked SUV. 

The sedan eventually reverses from the two agents, and the officer on the passenger side points his firearm at the vehicle. 

As Villegas González drives away from the agents—not toward them, as DHS claimed—the agent on the passenger side aims his weapon at the back of Villegas González’s car.

Two gunshots can be heard in a separate security video. The second agent is not visible during the shooting, and it remains unclear which agent fired their weapon.

Other footage that circulated on social media following the shooting, recorded by on-scene witnesses, shows two men in body armor pulling Villegas González out of his vehicle after it crashed into the undercarriage of a semitruck:

DHS also claims one of their agents was “dragged … a significant distance.” 

The distance between the initial stop and where Villegas González’s car was crushed under a truck is roughly 100 feet.

Witness video obtained by Unraveled appears to show no other agents present in the immediate aftermath of the shooting:

Villegas González was pronounced dead after being taken to the nearby Loyola Hospital, according to a Friday evening statement from the Village of Franklin Park.

Look there is going to be no widespread outcry, cancel culture retribution, firings, or glowing tributes to Mr. Villegas-Gonzalez, because he is a Hispanic man and that is a category Republicans have deemed non-human.  If you look at any comments on Facebook or a news story there are hundreds of rabid white people who thirst for blood and even more disgustingly laugh and applaud this murder and the lawless actions of ICE.  It should be noted Villegas Gonzalez was not a "hardened criminal" despite whatever smear job the Department of Homeland Security claims.  But, White people have been driven insane and now not only support state-sponsored white supremacy and violence, they fucking yearn for it and ant it to escalate.

The Mexican Consulate in Chicago and U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, have called for a full investigation into the incident, and hopefully the amount of video already collected by the journalists at Unraveled will make it into the hands of the FBI, but expect the investigation to be stopped much like the Criminal Trump Department of Injustice stopped the investigation into Criminal human thumb Tom Homan who accepted bribes in order to subvert justice.