We told y'all

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...we told you that letting your government criminalize and target immigrants would lead to EVERYONE'S rights and safety being at risk from the very same regime.

Anyone paying attention has to be running a scenario through their own minds today, no matter their race or ethnicity, where they can envision themselves suddenly, without a moment's notice' at risk of losing their lives because of some hothead federal agent with a grudge and a personality flaw thinking they have a right to shoot and kill them for disobeying their traffic instructions.

This isn't an exaggeration, it's a fear that's become all too real today. How many U.S. citizens with every right to travel where they want just made the decision to remain in their home, fearful of their own government?

I haven't left my own property since I had a panic attack months ago. Even now, I just questioned my dark-skinned self and wondered if I should just venture out to feel my own freedom, but I talked myself out of that foolishness of trusting my life to roving armed federal agents looking to pull over people who look 'Somali' or Mexican, or Latin American, or Muslim; whatever opportunistic reason they've been using to pull over and drag from their vehicles, assault and detain (possibly kill) people in this country who have browner skin than, I'd guess, their own.

But I'm going to guess that any illusion that, say, white Americans might have held that they are immune from the abuses and violence the federal government has directed at 'others' has now evaporated for the majority of people in the country - wherever they are, knowing that ICE has infected all of our states with armed men encouraged to play out their personal take on the recruiting lure of 'protecting their culture' on those who don't genuflect to their false and often illegal displays of authority.

You may not be personally afraid, but you should be asking yourself what the basis is for believing your protected and can defend your own safety or that of your loved ones against these thugs and their Trump-sanctioned thuggery and murder.

Do you realize that Renee Good is ALL of us, watching the Trump regime run roughshod over our rights and democracy. Can any of us who might disagree with this regime imagine we have the ultimate freedom under this government to hold those views and exercise those rights to dissent without fear of the government challenging us with the full force of the power we invested in them?

Did it take the wind right out of you to hear the president of the United States and his DHS minion describing the mother who told her killer she 'wasn't mad at him' seconds before he shot her dead as a domestic terrorist for having the temerity to merely observe the federal agent's actions from her vehicle?

Or, the vice president of the United States blame the victim of the federal execution in the street with a completely invented, and dumbfoundedly inconsequential rationale to her killing that she was a "victim of a "left wing' ideology?"

Of course, this hasn't just been a police exercise against the 'worst of the worst' or any of the other feints from the Trump regime about their intentions with the most funded law enforcement agency in the nation. It's not about making communities safer.

For Trump and his hired, taxpayer-funded goons, this is about bullying, conquering, and coercing Americans to the will of one party's president; this one intent on 'owning' Americans like one of his real estate acquisitions; like the way he just claimed to own the ostensibly independent country of Venezuela which he just abducted a political figurehead from that the U.S., in the past, once lorded over the people there as head of state.

Not only are you to be the subject of Trump, you're a hostage to his armed reign of terror in countless communities around the nation. If this isn't outright war, it's at the very least an armed government occupation of America; fomented by first politically advantaging the antipathy and antagonism of the Americans toward our own foreign-born or ethnically rooted neighbors; then by taking that power given to them to recklessly and violently direct those resources against us all.

We fucking told you.

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1. Pretty much like that under The Third Reich.

You were in danger because:

A) You were a Jew
B) Your spouse was a Jew
C) Your parents were Jews
D) Your grandparents were Jews
E) Your second cousin twice removed was a Jew
F) You listened to the BBC on the Wireless
G) You listened to Jazz (It's Jewish, y'know?)
H) Your tenant was Jewish
I) Your employee was Jewish
J) You read Heinrich Heine (Jewish poet)
K) You didn't join the Nazi Party
L) Your sons didn't join the Hitler Youth

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4. crazy like that

...but directed at the majority of Americans.

Hitler didn't invent falsely labeling Jews as an inferior race, though, with existing nationalist and xenophobic movements as early as the 19th century increasing in support after Germany's defeat in World War I, scapegoating the Jewish community for the country's economic hardships.

Pretty much the same lever Trump and many republicans used to achieve office, scapegoating immigrants in this country and, this term, achieving a record amount of funding for their masked police force which is now turning their violence against American citizens.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Preaching to choir, but I get your point...

When anybody's rights are violated, everybody's rights are violated.

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3. my point is that you are in danger

...but I get your point.