Renee Good and Alex Pretti Are Still Dead

 News cycles being what they are, what are a couple of murders of ordinary people in Minnesota to fret about?

Last night, on PBS Rick Scott, the U.S. Senator from Florida was asked about the Democratic opposition to mask ICE agents roving the streets in unmarked vans, shooting people and he rolled out a list of names of people he claimed were murdered by illegal immigrants and pointed to heroic ICE agents as the good guys who are defending white womanhood from the depravations of Spanish speaking rapists and  murderers.

When asked at his confirmation hearing about his statement that Alex Pretti was a terrorist intent on murdering policemen, Markwayne Mullin said he might have "misspoken" about that, and you can't get everything  right every time.

No of this sort of hyperbolic tripe is new in America--Senator Joe McCarthy claimed there were thousands of Communists infiltrated into the halls of the U.S. government--he had a list of names--and that they were planning on taking over America and making it a pawn of the Soviet Union.

Up here in New Hampshire, most folks don't want to think too much about a mother or a nurse murdered by sadistic agents of the federal government. Haven't seem 'em up hereabouts. 

ICE is searching for empty warehouses where they can stash Spanish speaking, brown skin people caught driving or walking while Brown in Kavanaugh stops.  We put Japanese in concentration camps once for being of Japanese heritage. What's so wrong about seizing Spanish speakers and stuffing them in concentration camps? As Justice Kavanaugh said, when you find an illegal alien, he is apt to be speaking Spanish, looking Spanish and hanging around with other Spanish speaking people in Home Depot parking lots. So that constitutes that pesky thing in the Constitution called "probable cause."

Was a time Black folks were lynched for being Black and walking around town after some white woman claimed to have been raped by a Black man. Much the same thing. 

Harry Truman didn't much like Jews, who he called "kikes" and he certainly did not like scientists, especially if they expressed horror at the uses of atomic bombs and if they spoke out against developing hydrogen bombs. Those scientists were all sissies and Truman said he never lost a wink of sleep about dropping the bombs on Hiroshima or Nagasaki.  And to this day, most people have no idea why Nagasaki had to fry. Even before Hiroshima, but surely after Hiroshima, the Japanese were toast, literally, and they knew it and dropping the second bomb then and now looks like, "Well, we had this bomb: What were we supposed to do with it?"

So, this America, man. 

Alex Pretti and Renee Good are dead and will stay dead. There is no statute of limitations on murder, because death is forever. But, of course, there is no murder, if the government does it.

Was always so. Thus is ever so.