It seems impossible that the president of the United States ordered the murders of at least 130 helpless Venezuelans in the last few weeks and nobody is even talking about it anymore.<\/p>\n
And yes, it was murder. Even if the victims were transporting drugs, and no evidence has been presented that they were, drug running is not a capital crime. No conclusion can be drawn other than that each person was murdered. Premeditated, first-degree murder.<\/p>\n
But we\u2019re not talking about that anymore because now he\u2019s causing, and defending, the murders of American citizens in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
A quick recap:<\/p>\n
First was Renee Good, a peaceful, unarmed 37-year-old woman whom an ICE agent shot three times while she was slowly driving in her S.U.V. The shooter, ICE goon Jonathan Ross, then walked up to her car, looked in, muttered \u201cdamn bitch,\u201d and, although she was still alive, walked away without offering any help, got in his truck, and drove away. The official response was that she was a \u201cdomestic terrorist\u201d and deserved what she got. Local authorities were not allowed to investigate.<\/p>\n
Then, last Saturday, ICE agents shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37-year-old VA nurse. Video from the scene, verified by The New York Times, shows this scene: Pretti is directing traffic on a street out of an area with ICE agents around, but stops to help a woman get up after ICE agents pushed her to the ground. At least seven agents surround Pretti, shoot pepper spray into his face although he is holding his hands up, one hand with a cellphone in it and the other empty, force him to the ground and hit him as he appears to be trying to keep his head off the ground. An agent removes a gun from Pretti\u2019s waistband (he had a permit and was carrying it legally) and walks away with it. A shot rings out and Pretti stops moving. Then nine more shots ring out. A doctor who quicky examined his body at the scene said he had been shot in the back \u201cat least three times.\u201d And again, local authorities were not allowed to investigate.<\/p>\n
The official version of that incident?<\/p>\n
And if that weren\u2019t enough, Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz that he could \u201cbring back law and order to Minnesota\u201d if he handed over the state\u2019s voter rolls to the Department of Justice, which Walz refuses to do.<\/p>\n
All that comes on top of this malignant narcissist Trump turning our families, friends and communities against one another; trying to shred our 250-year-old democracy by becoming the dictator he promised he would be; denying American children and helpless elderly people food and medicine so he and his billionaire buddies can stuff the money saved into their own pockets; allowing hundreds of thousands, approaching a million, of foreigners to die by canceling USAID programs, again so the money saved can go into billionaires\u2019 pockets; arresting any people of color, any color but white, including American citizens, and either deporting them or sending them to cold and filthy detention centers where they are denied decent food and medicine; turning our best friends, such as Canada and Europe, into our enemies, while supplying our enemies, such as Russia and China, with reasons to celebrate; using his powers as president to line his and his families\u2019 pockets with, according to The New York Times, a staggering $1.4 billion; announcing a virtual anti-United Nations \u201cBoard of Peace\u201d that gives him and him alone the power to veto decisions, approve the agenda, invite members, dissolve the board entirely and designate his own successor \u2013 in other words, become the world dictator; musing that we should cancel the 2026 midterm elections; and so, so much more.<\/p>\n
So it\u2019s no wonder that we\u2019re not talking much about our president murdering all those Venezuelans.<\/p>\n
But We the People are not helpless unless we choose to be. And today, of all days, there is something important that we all can do — must do!<\/em> \u2013 to make a difference.<\/p>\n
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