Murder in Minnesota

 

Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois exhorted citizens to video ICE agents, and that has born fruit, as just a mile and a half from where Derek Chauvin was shown murdering George Floyd, an unnamed ICE agent is captured drawing his gun and shooting a woman trying to drive away from ICE agents, and not driving in a way which could have endangered any of them. 

In fact, of online chatter is accurate, one of the ICE agents shouted to her, "Get out of here!" in which case she was actually trying to comply with ICE orders, not evade them. This will have to await more review.

But as it stands currently, the videos show what can only be seen as cold blooded murder.

Oh, MAGAmob nerds will bleat about "context," and they will say the truth can only out in a court of law (which would be  rich, coming from them), and they will admonish us not to rush to judgment, but sometimes the video is irrefutable, as when January 6th thugs are captured on video bludgeoning Capitol Police. No, Donnie dear, those were not normal tourists simply looking for a bathroom.

No, this time, you can believe your own eyes. They do not lie.

From the video, it looks like cold blooded murder. In context, it looks like cold blooded murder.  

No protests about how she refused to obey a police officer's order changes any of what we can see. 

Let her drive away. You've got her license. You know who she is and where she lives. 

You cannot shoot a burglar in the back fleeing from your house, if you have chased them out. Not even in a stand your ground state. You cannot murder a person for not obeying an order. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS3caI3di8c

If seeing is believing, then we can believe no ICE agent was being threatened, or in danger,  as Renee Nicole Good  tried to pull away from her captors. ICE agents may have been enraged that she did not follow their orders, but she had not just robbed a bank, and nobody was in hot pursuit. 

And the ICE agent firing at her was firing from the side of the car, into her window as she drove by him.

As the Minneapolis police chief remarked, "No matter what transpired, you do not fire into a moving vehicle."

But then ICE agents are not trained police. They are thugs with badges, recruited by a million dollar advertising campaign. They are not police--they just play police in their own minds.

There will be many replays, and technical analyses of this video, and Trump has already branded her a terrorist trying to run down ICE agents but we can see that's a lie.

The fact is, when Trump put into play twenty something males all gussied up in bullet proof vests and playing out their fantasies of being Seal Team Six hot shots, something like this was nearly inevitable.

They were sent into a Blue city to stir things up, to provoke mayhem and murder, and they did it.

The Second Amendment was a response to colonists not wanting the government to have a monopoly on violence. Now those same 2nd amendment freaks are justifying shooting this mother for the crime of panicking and fleeing. 

Of course, if she did have a gun, then the same people would be justifying her execution because she had a gun.

Is this making America Great Again?

Evelyn Mulray lies dead at the wheel, and all you can say, "This America, man."

The Things They Believe

 

One of Mad Dog's Favorite movies is "Men In Black," where Tommy Lee Jones buys up tabloids with pictures of space aliens on the front page because those are the only newspapers which have real news, as opposed to fake news, and the whole premise is that the government maintains a secret service to keep a lid on all the space aliens from Area 51 and beyond because "a person is smart, but people are stupid," and could not handle the truth. All the outlandish stuff we have always laughed off turns out to be true, and the reasonable sounding stuff is just fake news.

I laughed myself breathless during that film, but it turns out a lot of Americans are not laughing at this stuff--they take it both seriously and literally.

In 1945, at the end of World War Two, Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, opened up the liberated concentration camps and directed photographers to document everything, "So nobody can ever say this did not happen."

It was a good thought, but it did not have the desired effect.

 But now we have a whole part of the electorate which believes in nothing and suspects everything. Standard methods of proof and validation have been abandoned and the only truth is that whatever the authorities say is wrong and likely malacious.

This might explain the election of Barack Obama with the votes of people who voted for Trump the next time: All that mattered to this mob is disruption.

So here are a few highlights from true believer MAGA mob acolytes, in no particular order, other than wow factor:

1. The Holocaust never happened

2. Neil Armstrong never landed on the moon: the moon landing was staged

3. The 9/11 attack was an inside job by the American government

4. The Sandy Hook massacre of children was faked; if you weren't at the morgue, you cannot know any child actually ever died

5. Childhood vaccines cause autism

6. Vaccines have been used to inject chips into unsuspecting Americans

7. Trump won his re-election bid in 2020 but Biden stole the election

8. Climate change is a Chinese hoax

9. A world wide cabal of pedophiles controls the Democratic Party and is directed by a guy named Soros, who also has a side gig starting wildfires in California with space lasers.

10. The Clintons murdered Vince Foster and Jeffrey Epstein

11. Justin Trudeau is the secret son of Fidel Castro

12. COVID 19 was a lab leak designed by Tony Fauci and executed by China

13. Haitian immigrants ate the pet dogs and cats of Ohio townsfolk and Democrats have imported immigrants to replace white voters and these voters are under the command of Democrats 

14. The FBI planted 274 agents to provoke the January 6th attacks

15. School shootings are planned and organized by ISIS to prompt gun control and disarm America.

16. Russia invaded Ukraine because the U.S. and Ukraine were secretly developing biological weapons

17. The murder rate in Washington, D.C. was cut massively by Trump's National Guard troops.

18. Polio vaccine caused more polio than polio epidemics

19. The January 6th attack was just a normal bunch of tourists trying to see the building: It was a day of love.

20. The President of Honduras, who had been sent to jail for drug trafficking, was just another innocent victim of Joe Biden.

This is the base belief package of American swing voters.

As usual, the ghost of Christopher Hitchens has the best summary. The irony is not lost on Mag Dog that the most illuminated truth comes from someone who actually no longer exists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wSHGvi7bEc

Ah! Caracas!

 

In the words of Forrest Gump: And that's all I have to say about that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QpUpQ6ExxM

It is not brief, but it is complete. 

Could not have said it better, nothing to add.