Oh, All Better Now

 

Like all politicians caught in a public relations nightmare, Trump looks for a fall guy to blame  and so today it's Greg Bovino, the brickheaded yahoo from western North Carolina, who dresses up like a Seal Team Six macho man and thinks beating up women and children makes him a hero.

He's out of there. So Trump can say that wasn't me--that was Bovino set loose those hyenas.

Two Cheeks combined to make One Ass

All dolled up in his best Sam Brown belt, with stars on his collar and a really nifty olive uniform, Bovino told an incredulous press  that the real victims of the shooting of Alex Pretti by six Border Patrol federal agents were the agents.

The sounds of jaws dropping around the room were deafening, and even FOXNEWS struggled to explain how someone with 10 bullets in his back could have been victimizing Border Patrol agents.

Fortunately, they are getting pretty good in Minneapolis at camera capture, and from every angle, and there were many angles, Pretti is seen to be first trying to cover up a woman who had been slammed to the ground by Border Patrol, then brought to the ground by a tangle of hyena agents and then summarily executed, just the way these brainless losers all decked out in their warrior stuff wanted it to play out. They got their kill and they probably thought themselves heroes. Just like Call to Duty.

That Nurse Was A Domestic Terrorist and Deserved to Die!

Stephen Miller, of course, called Pretti a domestic terrorist, not wanting to await tedious examination of the videos--he just knew that nobody but a leftist, elitist, terrorist would be out there on the street. It was enough that Pretti was out on the street, which, by definition makes him a terrorist, but he was filming with his camera, which definitely defines him as someone trying to bring down the state by violence, and, get this, he was ARMED! Now why would you be carrying a gun, unless you were determined to shoot federal agents with it? Case closed!

I just Play One on TV
Am I HOT, or what?

Kristi Noem, of course, was dependably defending the murders because, you know: the GUN! Which is really rich, given her love affair with guns. But she really only uses guns to shoot puppies, which is what she encourages her DHS agents to get into. 

Czar Thomas the Terrible Trying to Think

But even Karoline Leavitt seemed to get that continuing to gaslight the White House Press Corps, even a corps which as been hand selected as MAGA approved press, is a tough  act, and so Trump decided he had to show he isn't always in favor of shooting innocent citizens, so he sends in another minimal neuron mope, Tom Homan, who carries the mystifying title of "Border Czar," which makes one wonder what Kristi Noem and Bordino are, but at least he's not either one of them.

Inspiring Confidence

And after years of saying he's going to rough up people who like immigrants and after recruiting a corps of young men with slogans like "Destroy the Flood" and "America for Americans" and "We'll Have Our Home Again!" Mr. Trump is just flabbergasted that his boys would shoot a nurse in the  back or a woman in an SUV.  Not the sort of chaos he had in mind, although he'll tell you there was chaos before he unleashed chaos and so there's that. 

Actual Domestic Terrorist: On His Orders

Meanwhile, rumor has it Minnesota National Guard have been deployed to protect citizens who might desire to protest. At first, we were told the Guard would just be guarding buildings, but now we see on TV a Guard soldier, not wearing a mask, but wearing a yellow visibility vest, drinking hot coco with random civilians. 

Serve and protect, indeed.

Dare Mad Dog ask, what happens when those Border Patrol, ICE federales show up toting their assault rifles, all decked out in armored vests and paratrooper boots, and they go for the next domestic terrorist nurse, or when they throw to the frozen ground another Minnesota mother?

Sieg Heil, Minneapolis!

Will the Minnesota National Guard guard the  good people of Minnesota against the Washington, DC shock troopers?

And what will that look like?

Protecting Hampton Police

 

At a recent Select Board Meeting, the Select Board voted to not recommend a Warrant Article which would have given the Chief of Police of Hampton the authority/encouragement to not sign a contract of cooperation with ICE.

It was introduced by one of Hampton's representative to the House of Representatives at the State House in Concord, but it would apply only to Hampton.

Hampton Police, Definitely Not ICE

The way this town of 20,000 is governed is somewhat antediluvian, an archaic relic of when New Hampshire was comprised of small, rural towns, and people had town meetings and most towns did not think it necessary to have mayors. But then towns got too big to have the traditional town meetings depicted in Norman Rockwell paintings, so they shifted to a Select Board, where a group of 5 Select Board members (Selectmen, until women started getting elected) who meet weekly and decide on municipal expenses, and the direction in which the town should go.

But then the town of Hampton grew to 20,000 and, during the summer it swells to 150,000, making it the 2nd largest town in New Hampshire between Labor Day and Memorial Day. 

So, to address town issues a day in March is devoted to "Warrant Articles" where if Mrs. Jones wants to plant her petunias across the town sidewalk on the patch of grass running alongside Winnacunnet Road, town property, she needs a Warrant Article to approve of her using town land for flowers she will see from her living room window. Also, spending a million dollars to put a new roof on a town building gets funded through voter approval via a Warrant Article.

There are often as many as 40 warrant article and most town residents know nothing about 39 of them, so the work around has been a line below the article but above the check boxes Yes/No says, "Recommended by the Select Board 5-0." And so most everyone votes for that.

This year the warrant article asking the voters to approve a directive to the Chief of Police to sign no contract with ICE will have "Not Recommended by the Select Board."

Mad Dog listened to comments from townfolk, most of whom do not want ICE coming anywhere near Hampton--not that we have many immigrants, illegal or otherwise, apart from the occasional roofer or gardener or landscaper or painter, but those guys are here today and gone by the end of the day. But watching the ICE murders in Minneapolis, we had to ask ourselves, "How many Hampton mothers have to be murdered by ICE before we'll want them gone?"

McGrath: Beware the Illegal Alien Rapists

Some, however, spoke against excluding ICE, saying they were only here to help the police deal with the illegal immigrants who are gang members, rapists or murderers, and Linda McGrath, who represents Hampton as a Republican in the state House of Representatives, said there were buildings just across the Piscataqua River (the border with Maine) filled with illegal alien gang member rapists just bursting to get over to the New Hampshire Seacoast.

So she tried to sell the ICE presence as an effort to protect our local Hampton police.

Looking at how many local police have been arrested by ICE in Minneapolis, and in fact around the country, most notably in Phoenix, Arizona, Mad Dog could only think, if we want to protect our own police, never mind our mothers and nurses, we should not invite ICE in, and we surely should not contractually obligate our police to  cooperate with ICE,  if they just show up.

Our cops are generally speaking well liked by townspeople and they've built up good will over years. They have to deal with unruly drunken revelers down at the "Hampton Beach" part of town, where most Hampton year rounders never go, but we are happy to have the local police serve and protect us. 

It will be interesting to see how the voting on that Warrant Article goes.

Murder Most Foul in the Winter of Our Discontent

And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover...

I am determined to prove a villain...

Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,

By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams...

As I am subtle, false and treacherous

--Shakespeare, "Hamlet"

This America, man.

--Unidentified witness, "The Wire"

 

"Pretti was a domestic terrorist." --Steven Miller

The murder of Alex Pretti is so clearly murder most foul, and if the Bard provides lines for us then we have to see ourselves in our winter of discontent, to put it mildly.

Bovino All Dressed Up 

Mad Dog continues to find his eyes are drawn not to the scene of ten shots fired into the back of a subdued victim, but beyond to his murderers and beyond that to those who defend the murder, nay, even exalt in the murder.

Oh, there are the efforts to distract, to claim the victim was to blame, to defend the ICE or Border Patrol or whatever sort of federal agents were in fear for their lives because, well look at this horrific weapon! But then, the photo of the weapon was fake and we know that because we can see the actual pistol in the hand of one of the agents, removed from the reach of Pretti, who just seconds later is shot 10 times.

Ten times. Think about that. What does that tell us about the murderers?

Gotta Love the Hat

And we try to learn more about who these hit men are, but Trump conceals them. 

Trump Will Pardon

But we do know something about this Foreign Legion organized for local duty. One was heard saying, "Cool! This is just like 'Call of Duty,'" as his unit, decked out and dolled up just like Seal Team Six, stalked down a city street with their body armor, helmets and combat boots, attack rifles and face masks, ready to do battle with Minneapolis housewives and off duty nurses. 

Some percentage, maybe 35%, are recent immigrants who love the machismo, which is part of their culture, and they have such minimal education the best job by far they can get is with ICE, where they fall upon less fortunate immigrants, like those Kapos from the World War II concentration camps, who were allowed to live as long as they helped exterminate the new arrivals off the Eichmann trains at Auschwitz and other camps. 

For the Anglo ICE/Border Patrol mob, these are the losers, the high school drop outs, who spent too much time in their mothers' basements playing "Call To Duty," knowing the closest they'd ever come to living out those games was buying another game, until...ICE called!

Phony Photo: Lying All The Time

They are the INCELS--the Involuntary Celibates who know they cannot attract women and resent women and their mothers and the whole world because of that and "since I cannot prove a lover...I am determined to prove a villain."

I'm Not an INCEL!

Not to go all Freudian, but apparently this psychology goes all the way back to the 1600's and Elizabethan times, to Shakespeare.

Ideal ICE agent Candidate

These guys, like their idol, Trump, on some level, know they are profoundly unattractive--repellant really--and they make war on the world, especially on people who look more successful to them, like housewives and mothers driving SUV's, or men with full time professional jobs, like the nurse Pretti, or just about anyone who is not a fellow INCEL.

I am King of this Realm

There is an old story about racial hatred which actually probably applies to what is going on inside the heads of these ICE agents. It has been told in different forms, most famously in "Mississippi Burning," where a sheriff tries to explain racial hatred with the story about his father killing a mule for no apparent reason. In the case of ICE agents the motivating complaint is not race, but the motivation of felt inferiority and one's place in the pecking order is identical.

Allow Mad Dog to update that story to today's ICE agents.

Miller: He Who Pulls The Strings

A reporter is sitting at bar with an agent for the Federal Agency of Urban Khaos-Unlimited (FAUK-U) and they are drinking amiably. The FAUK-U agent does not know his drinking companion is a reporter.

REPORTER:  So, I hear you guys got another illegal today.

AGENT: Sure did. In fear for our lives,  you know. (He winks and grins.)

REPORTER: Fucking bitch?

AGENT: Not this time. Faggot. Worked as a nurse, if you can believe that. Didn't know that at the time, but he had the look, you know?

REPORTER: I heard he pulled a gun.

AGENT: Well, that's the story.

REPORTER: Not realy?

AGENT: Naw, that freak was down. 

REPORTER: So why the lead poisoning?

AGENT: You know, if I'm not better than some faggot, what am I?

Trump's Bitches

And remember: You cannot spell INCEL without I-C-E

VIOLENCE

 

Mad Dog had to Google the law which says advocating for the violent overthrow of the government is illegal.

It turns out, it's the Smith Act of 1940, Title 18.

Long before this law, Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes made it illegal to undermine the federal government by decrying the draft for World War 1, in that famous ringing phrase crystalizing the limits of free speech: "You cannot falsely cry 'Fire!' in a crowded theater causing a panic." He said that the printing (in Yiddish of all things!) of a pamphlet decrying the draft and distributing it outside a factory encouraging workers to not support the draft constituted a  "clear and present danger" to the United States of America.

War At Kent State

Holmes, at least when he wrote his opinion, was no friend of free speech.

But we all, or most of us, agree free speech is an ideal with some practical limitations.

Sometimes, however, men decide to ignore laws and to act, to do violent  things and they feel justified in violently  taking life on principle.

As a tool for revolution, for opposing despots, violence is often ineffective, or at best, inefficient. Or as they say now, nobody can out gun the federal government.

My parents always told me: "Don't be a martyr. You can't win from the grave."

And even a source as dubious as General George Patton said, "You don't win wars by dying for your country. You win wars by making that other dumb bastard, your enemy, die for his country."

Martyr

On the other hand, once all other options have been tried without success, sometimes violence has a certain appeal.

There is a famous scene from the movie, "Mississippi Burning," between an FBI agent  and the local sheriff assigned to help him. The Sheriff is the agent's native guide; he has grown up in the South and knows the local folks. When the car belonging to the three Civil Rights workers is hauled out of a local swamp, it's apparent the three have been murdered and the agent orders up 100 police to search the location for the bodies. 

"Don't do that. Don't do it." the sheriff warns the agent. "You'll start a war."

And the agent replies, "There's a war been going on here long before I arrived."

By that time in the movie, we have seen enough of Mississippi to know exactly what he means. It is a loathsome, fifth circle of Hell, populated by mean, ignorant, violent, haters. 

The agent is willing to incite violence to meet violence.

After Renee Good was murdered by an ICE agent, even before federal agents murdered Alex Pretti as he tried to protect a woman agents had slammed to the ground, Mad Dog probed some of his local friends and members of the Democratic Club about at least beginning an academic discussion, a thought  experiment, about what the options might be for resistance to the Trump terror.

We might begin with the simple, harmless things, like bringing food to immigrants who are afraid to leave their home, or blowing whistles when ICE shows up on the block or holding up protest signs on the corner. 

When neighbors held up those signs, Mad Dog asked the leader if she had held any exercises about how to react if ICE arrived, the way those Freedom Riders and students who did sit ins at segregated lunch counters were trained in the sixties. She looked a little uncomprehending, and said, "Well, we'd get arrested."

Mad Dog thought, "But that's not training."

Do these folks with the protest signs know what to do when they are arrested? Do they have a plan for arrest? What if they are beaten? Do they have a plan?

When you are trained how to resuscitate someone, you are trained what your first step should be--establish an airway--then, the next--thump the chest--and if that doesn't work--start pumping. And if that doesn't work...And so on, for each failure, what is next.

Okay, you've tried the big marches with the balloons and pink hats with ears. None of that worked: What next?

Martin Luther King argued  with Malcom X about peaceful resistance v Armed revolution. 

Today, we think non violent resistance worked and was the smart choice.

But Mad Dog has always wondered: What if Gandhi had been protesting against Hitler? We'd never have heard of Gandhi, or at most, he'd have lasted a single news cycle. If Gandhi had faced ICE rather than the British colonial officers, he'd have been dead within the first week he'd tried his Salt march to the sea.

Non violent protests only works against authorities who won't shoot you within seconds of arriving on the scene.

Watching Alex Pretti taking each step toward his own death, you could see he had a limited plan: video the ICE agents, back off as they approached him. 

But then one of them slammed a woman to the ground near him and he had not planned or been trained for that moment and he dived in and died.

His death will not change anything any more than the death of that student in the famous photo from Kent State.  That martyred student at Kent State did not end the war in Vietnam. The violent Tet Offensive ended the war in Vietnam. 

So, maybe we'll talk some more about what we'll do, how far we'd be willing to go when ICE comes to Hampton.

And you have to walk it all the way through to the violence.

Do we organize a militia? We have  guns in town. This is open carry New Hampshire.  

Do we have a dozen men show up with their assault rifles shouldered? 

What do we do when ICE calls in more troops with their assault rifles?

Do we level our rifles at them?

Do we shoot?

The Minutemen may or may not have had a plan at Lexington and Concord, but they actually wrecked havoc on the British and made them retreat.

But what happened then? 

Do we want to engage in a full out fire fight in Hampton?

And you cannot out gun the federal government.

And if we did try, would that not play into the hands of the Trump/Miller/Noem/Bovini hands? 

Oh, look, see! We told you they were dangerous, murdering leftists!

Or are we already past that? 

Has the war already begun, as in Mississippi?

18 U.S. Code § 2385 - Advocating overthrow of Government

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Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or

Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or

Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

As used in this section, the terms “organizes” and “organize”, with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons.

Predictable? Inevitable: The Plan All Along

 

Ken White, a lawyer whose podcast "Make No Law" was a wonderful exploration of the United States Constitution,  now has a new podcast, "Serious Trouble," and he has posted a list of "arguably predictable consequences," which foment violence from the government toward the people they govern/oppress.

ICE Agents Fearing for Their Lives

My only argument is with his word, "arguably." 

A Confused Narrative

These consequences are inevitable. They are a step by step recipe for what any tyranny cooks up. 

Government at Kent State

"We the People," become  dupes and neutered witnesses as the dogs of tyranny are unleashed. 

Government at Selma

Try reading this and not thinking of Steven Miller, Pete Hegseth, Krisit Noem and Trump. It reads like a playbook, and not just Project 2025 but Mein Kampf, or at least Joseph Goebbels diary entries. 

This is a plan, not just something that happened.

A Recipe for Violence

Members of groups hated by the ruling party and its supporters — including racial and religious groups, immigrants, and dissenters or critics — can be assaulted and even murdered with practical impunity, both by government actors and by private individuals favored by the ruling party. The ruling party can lie to justify said assaults and murders and no reliable institution can call the lies to account. The ruling party can expand the hated group without rights at will. The constitutional and statutory rights of the hated groups can be violated at will. Anyone objecting can be punished by violence or by abuse of government power. The populace is increasingly confused and uninformed because the institutions that should inform them are unable or unwilling to do so in a coherent manner. If any of this sounds  familiar, well then you have been paying attention. But if you pay attention to all this chaos, maybe you'll forget about Jeffrey Epstein.  From Predictable to Inevitable

MAGA REVEAL ON THE 2ND AMENDMENT

 

Another terrorist, worst of the worst, paid protester, Somali loving, likely rapist has been bravely dispatched by ICE, where, Trump/Noem/Bovino/Miller (can never keep these mopes straight) tell us he threatened federal agents with a gun, and fearing for their lives...you know the rest.

Noem with Photo of gun
ICE said It took from Nurse
Doesn't look like gun we see from video

And if you are confused on any of that, it's you who are confused, because it is very clear what happened, but let me repeat it: An armed rapist, immigrant like, leftist terrorist was heroically killed by ICE or Border Control or someone from Homeland Security (a name which beggars irony--as if these Federal killers are providing security for anyone, even White mothers). Got it now? If we keep saying it, it must be true.

He was, apparently shot over 10 times because he had committed the crime of carrying a licensed firearm and he was at the site of a demonstration where people were trying to exercise their First Amendment rights, (and don't they deserve to be shot for THAT?) and, apparently getting those violated, along with their 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms. 

Or at least that's how Trump/Noem/Hegseth/Miller have explained it.

Federal Agents 
Bravely Sudue
One Nurse

Federal agent removes Victim's gun
Before another shoots nasty terrorist
10 times as he lies on Ground

Well, actually, an ICU nurse, at the VA, who was holding a phone, while his licensed side arm was swept away by ICE/Border Control/Masked Raiders in preparation for his execution.

And, if you look at the photo above, that gun being held by the Fed does not look anything like the Howitzer Noem shows in the photo of the nurse's gun, which has what may be a laser sight attached. So, as she has virtually every time, Noem is lying, telling you to not believe what you can see with your own eyes.

Another Dangerous Rapist/
Murderer/
Leftist Mercenary

But he was ARMED! With a gun! What was he doing with a gun? What did he intend to do? THAT is the question! WHY did he bring a gun?

Here in New Hampshire, which is an open carry state, men pack heat on their hips or rifles on their backs to attend rallies, and especially Obama rallies, where all sorts of white males looking as if they were about to jump out of airplanes with the 101st Airborne show up to "listen" to Obama speak at Portsmouth High School, and if their weaponry spooked some Obama supporters, well, we do have the 2nd Amendment.

And, oh, about that 2nd Amendment, which begins, "A well organized militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State," well, what if the governor of the state, to restore order and safety, calls out the Minnesota National Guard to protect his citizens from ICE and then, what if Steven Miller and Secretary Noem and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth respond with Marines or deployment of the 101st airborne?

(Remember when the 101st was deployed in Little Rock, Arkansas to walk a little Black girl to school through a howling White mob? Boy, talk about a different sort of assignment.)

Invaders

So, if the Minnesota Guard were deployed to protect Minnesotans--imagine using the Guard to do something like that, rather than just piling up sandbags--Well, that's called Civil War, which, of course, is what MAGA has been calling for since January 6, 2021.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

And this time, nothing new, it would be White people going to war to control non White people, poor White people, in service of rich, white plantation (Mar-a-lago, Epstein's Island) owners. 

Don't they Look Like
They're Having Fun?