J.B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois knows what Donald Trump is trying to provoke: Another Kent State, a Border Patrol agent shot, an excuse to send in the troops.
So far, in L.A., in Portland, Oregon, Trump has found his shock troops disarmed by giant green frogs and yellow ducks.
But the Border Patrol and ICE agents and Texas National Guard units sent to Chicago are ratcheting up the vice grip and trying hard to start something nasty.
Governor Pritzker says the best counter punch is for citizens to take out their cameras and start filming every time ICE shows up.
Without that famous photo of a napalmed naked Vietnamese girl running in horror from her bombed village, Americans would not have given Napalm a second thought. It smelled like victory, the man said, but with that image it looked like evil.
Without the images of My Lai, nobody would have paid much attention to what U.S. Marines were doing in Vietnam. Officials could claim they were only reacting to horrific behavior on the other side, to snipers or hidden threats. But those bodies of babies and their mothers exposed what was really happening.
The images of the Southern police beating protesters on the Pettus bridge in Selma turned stomachs even among some Southern women.
Martin Luther King being shoved to the ground by his neck meant more after you had heard him speak. But the photo played it's role.
The dog against protester photo was worth 10,000 headlines. Authorities could blame him. They could say he broke some law, that he put the officers at risk. But you can see what you can see.
So, let's get them on video. Let the world see what arresting the worst of the worst really means. Let us see the lie; don't tell us about it.
An image can be powerful in ways words and even actions unrecorded cannot be.
CODA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjCDDe-oh78&t=72s
In Chicago federal agents came under sniper fire. Leftist terrorism must be countered by forceful federal action.
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ReplyDeleteTell us mad dog do you support federal law or are you a anarchist ? Your inveterate invocation of Nazi imagery in the context of federal law enforcement is irrational and odious. Do you have any sympathy for Jews as victims of leftist violence? Or do you just pretend it’s the 1930s and deny the world reality of today?
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