Open Mouth, Insert Foot

 

It just keeps getting worse for Trump and his willing accomplices.

Nicht Nazi!

Alex Pretti is murdered on national TV, as it were, or its modern internet "viral" equivalent and it's like the Selma church bombing, or the murder of the Freedom riders, in that it will have true believers shouting, "Good riddance! Go kill those trouble makers!" but America is only 40% true Maga believers. America, near as Mad Dog can tell, is 30% alert/ 30% asleep/40% flat out insane.

Nicht Nazi!

Insane, as in homicidal maniac, paranoid lunatics. Those are the soulless MAGA mob, and irredeemable.

But it's that somnolent 30% who just want to drink their beer at the sports bar and watch six games on TV simultaneously, and not think too much about whether the Second Coming of Trump is actually the Fourth Reich, or whatever.

And those men and women, who don't know Stephen Miller from Pete Buttigieg, do occasionally shift their eyes to their phones or their home screens, and notice a nurse got shot 10 times in the back or a mother in an SUV got shot in the face, courtesy of those brave Seal Team 6 wannabes, of ICE and CBP. 

It's that 30% Trump worries about.

So, first they try to blame the victim, (he was a domestic terrorist attempting to kill CBP agents) and when that didn't work, they put out a (possibly faked) video showing the nurse make have had a temper, and while not violent, was at least provocable, and when that made it look like his murder may have been pay back for an encounter 11 days earlier, so the shooting was not just random boys-will-be-boys when you give them lethal toys, but a planned, calculated pay back for stomping on our taillight, the MAGA crowd just kept trying to move away from the whole murder thing, but they find themselves in the quicksand of MAGA mewling, and the more they move, the quicker they sink. 

What Mad Dog thinks they need is a wardrobe makeover.

Shuck the whole Seal Team 6- I- am- a-predator thing and maybe adopt the New Hampshire National Guard look: During COVID, which is the only time Mad Dog actually saw them outdoors, they were wonderful, and you drove up and got your vaccine through the car door window or inside their tent, and they thanked you, and you thanked them, and mothers mentioned their unmarried daughters might be needing a jab, and the Guardsmen's faces were hidden behind their masks so you couldn't actually see their reactions, but they were disciplined enough to not roll their eyes.

Now those guys were actually GUARDING the community.

Mad Dog loved the COVID vaccination programs--it was actual public health and real community, and even though some of it happened during the first Trump administration, it worked very well.

Oddly enough, Operation Warp Speed was the only good thing Trump ever did--actually, not really. He didn't actually DO that operation so much as he got out of the way, but that was something, but Trump rarely acknowledges he had anything to do with vaccinations, Mad Dog is guessing because so many of the MAGA weird think vaccinations cause autism, and public health is government tyranny, and, oh, right, RFKJR is saying they are BAAAD.

Alex Pretti Kicking Video: The Sign in the Window?

 

On the one hand, you see the video and you say, "Believe your Eyes."

On the other hand, you have seen AI generated videos going back to the video Obama made to warn of the dangers of being deceived by AI.

Putting ICE Agents At Risk

You know, if it's just one video it well could be fake. When you see six different videos from 6 different sources, you believe your eyes and your brain saying, it would be nigh on impossible to fake all that, especially after the sources have been interrogated.

And, of course, there's the So What? factor.

Even if Alex Pretti was shown to have been angry at ICE 11 days before he was shot in the back, that only provides a motive for his being on the scene when he was murdered. The day he was murdered, he was trying to cover a woman attacked by ICE and he was shot in the back, surrounded by 6 ICE agents. For that you've got plenty of confirmation, both video and eyewitness.

Now, of course, the Trump hyenas are trying to build the "He Deserved It," story, with everyone from Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) to a Republican US Senator from Ohio taking up the howl that Pretti (and other demonstrators) interfere with agents in the "performance of their duty" never mind we can see ICE seeing their duty as throwing a woman to the ground--the Bovino defense that it was the agents who were the real victims of Pretti's murder.

There are ways of detecting AI tampering, but they take time and real expertise, and Mad Dog would like to see this analysis, not because it would change his mind about Pretti's murder and its significance, but because it would confirm what we know about this event--Noem and Miller and Bovino were doing more than taking up the howl, they were ordered to howl by the man who released this fake AI video, if it is.

It has been widely reported that Mr. Pretti's family confirmed he had been in a confrontation with ICE some time before he was murdered by ICE, so the video, conceivably, may be authentic and not fabricated. And Mr. Pretti's family would have confirmed that if they thought it true, knowing the video of that confrontation would be immaterial. We all knew Pretti was on the scene because he opposed ICE. We all know now, he was murdered for that opinion.

Like Havel's greengrocer, those who claimed Pretti posed a threat to ICE the day he was murdered knew it was a lie, but they put that sign in the window because tyrannies depend on everyone embracing the lie.

And, of course, we should not forget, we do not have any videos of Epstein hanging himself.

The Soul of the Oppressor

 

Democrats did a zoom meeting last night to discuss efforts to resist the signing of a contract between Rockingham County (where Hampton lives) and ICE for a new "detention center" in the county.

Kate Coyle, the only Democrat on the three person County Commission, outlined the arguments she had made to oppose this deal, but behind her recital was the reality that there are two Republicans on the Commission, Steven Goddu and Thomas Tombarello.

She had argued: 1/that such contracts usually require a link to a hospital for those taken into custody who are injured and that any medical misadventures might expose the County to medical liability suits into the millions; 2/ she pointed out there is doubt we could find non immigrant labor to serve as prison guards; 3/she argued that the exposure of the County for unspecified costs could undermine the promise of millions of dollars in revenue promised by the Trump administration for this contract.

Others chimed in with other arguments which were designed to appeal to the two Republicans having to do with costs and money, "Because Republicans are always thinking about money."

She appealed to all to show up to testify and protest at the hearing.

Finally, one man who had listened silently said, "You know, if we have not reached a tipping point with Alex Pretti's murder, I don't know if we ever will. If that event did not expose this murderous regime for what it is, what could? You argue over details of administration of the facility, you are niggling with murderers. 

If Steven Miller called and said, 'I need a few acres in your county for a detention center and, oh, by the way, it has to be able to accommodate a crematorium,' --would you then reply, 'Oh, but that might cause air pollution. We should think about that.' ? Are we listing every detail as a problem, when the big problem is never addressed?  

What if the neighbors at Mauthausen had argued that the smell coming from the concentration camp was a problem for tourism?'"

Lisa DeMio, the chair of the Rockingham Democratic Party replied, "We would never accept a crematorium." 

But she was not actually that concrete, unable to get the point of the analogy. She added, "What we are doing is trying to throw some sand in the gears."

Mad Dog understood, these well meaning citizens had been dealt a bad hand and they were trying to bluff and buy time. There was nothing they could do to prevent the inevitable. They were the violinists on the deck of the Titanic, playing music, holding on to what they could, but unable to do anything to prevent the disaster.

Kate Coyle was challenged on the idea of showing up with signs or to testify.  The same man replied,  "I showed up and testified last April and it was clear as day nothing we said had any effect on those two Republicans. Their minds are made up. Two angels blowing horns could descend from Heaven, but unless Donald Trump tells them to vote no, they will vote yes."

Mad Dog felt sorry for Kate. She seemed to involute before his eyes. 

As Tad Stoemer has pointed out, protests depend on a faith held by the protester that it is possible to change the mind of the oppressor, that the oppressor has a soul which can be saved if he can only be brought to enlightenment.  

Resistance simply says, "No."

Both Gandhi and Martin Luther King led their marches in the face of governments which represented some pretty awful things--in the case of Gandhi, it was British imperialism, colonialism based on the idea that backward brown people would never be capable of governing themselves, and besides, India "belonged" to the Queen.

For Martin Luther King, it was a government led by first John F. Kennedy and then Lyndon Johnson, and they had been put into office with Southern votes. It is hard to believe now, but in 1960, the South was solidly Democratic, because the Republican Party was the part of Lincoln. Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic candidate for President before Kennedy, chose as his running mate Estes Kefauver from Tennessee, an avowed segregationist. 

Kennedy had a soul and, like Kate Coyle, he found himself boxed in. If he backed MLK too closely, he'd be voted out and then who would MLK be left with?  

It wasn't until LBJ finally broke with his segregationist colleagues, like Richard Russell, and insisted on passing the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 which ended legal segregation in theaters, swimming pools and schools that the Dixiecrats, led by South Carolina's Strom Thurmond  Southerners, jumped from the Democratic to the Republican party.

It is obvious what would have happened had MLK or Gandhi been faced with dealing with Hitler. 

A movement based on protests depends on a faith that the oppressor has a soul to save, and will not murder you. That, of course, was sorely tested on the Pettis Bridge in Selma, where Southern police beat protesters with batons, and fractured skulls and came within inches of murder.

But there were enough people--LBJ, and some other Southerners who did have a soul, and so MLK was successful--until he was murdered by someone who had no soul.

So, how do you try to respond to the soulless oppressor?

Deitrick Bonhoeffer, a German cleric, joined a plot to kill Hitler. 

Vaclav Havel, the Czech patriot, advised people to simply "remove the sign from the window," by which he meant, stop embracing the lie.

Here in the US, we have the Big Lie and the little lies. Trump, Miller, Noem, Bovino, Vance all lied immediately about Alex Pretti: He was a domestic terrorist intent on massacring federal agents. 

And when all that was exposed with video so even a Republican, Rand Paul, had to say, "Those are lies you can see right in front of you," they backed off to Rick Scott's (R-Fl) fall back, "Well, you have the right to protest, but you can't interfere with police trying to do their duty." Which is to say, "Well, he had it coming for getting in the way of the police." But of course, as Rand Paul noted, Pretti was simply trying to come to the aid of a woman on the ground, something many of us would do instinctively. 

But Pretti and that woman protester did not understand the soulless nature of ICE and CBP. These are men recruited by slogans like, "America for Americans," and "We'll Have Our Home Again," and "Remove the Worst of the Worst" and "Protect Our Homes from Predatory Invaders." 

What would you expect from men like this?

They are worse than storm troopers, the brownshirts, who at least were not masked. They are murderous, soulless, unrestrainable, unteachable. They are the bottom of the barrel. Unemployable except as street thugs. They cannot learn the law, never mind enforce it. 

And they reflect their progenitors: the apple has not fallen far from the tree. They are what Trump and Miller would be if they could.

In their own minds, they are Seal Team 6, mowing down masses of Osama Bin Ladens. 

And you cannot appeal to a soul which is simply not there.

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.