Terror-Frying is Such a Useful Tool

 

Terror-Frying is Such a Useful Tool

“I also worry about the type of people that are being recruited now for ICE. The recruitment rhetoric is ‘Defend your culture.’ What does that mean? I think that’s a dog whistle, basically, for ‘Let’s go after the great replacement,’… If you’re Mexican American, for example, in south Texas, interested in enforcing the law, ‘Defend your culture’ is not a message for you. If you’re a Muslim American in Michigan or Minneapolis interested in enforcing the law, going into law enforcement, ‘Defend your culture’ is not a message for such person. Basically, you need not apply.” 

Jeh Johnson, former Homeland Security Secretary in the Obama administration… shortly after the ICE shooting of Renee Good

“When I called out my cousin for being the ‘face of evil’ I DID NOT stutter… [about a 2025 Facebook Post]...Renee Nicole Good’s death [Minneapolis protester shot by ICE agent on 1/7] is blood on YOUR hands, Stephen. I’m just glad our grandparents are no longer alive to witness the shame you have brought to our family.” 

 Alisa Kasmer, cousin of White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller on January 8th.

“Bad tactics always lead to bad shootings… Even if you’re trying to arrest someone who’s trying to flee, that should not result in an automatic death sentence.” 

 Ruben Lopez, a retired LAPD SWAT lieutenant who now teaches use-of-force techniques to officers across the country

The above pictures tell a story… about how a government goes about shutting down protests against its wildly unpopular, often violent and cruel, leadership. Free speech isn’t free, regardless of constitutional guarantees, when the constitution is simply ignored… and we look more like the repressive regimes we have attacked than the United States of America… in nations where there is no such constitutional protection. The first photo above is of the ICE execution of Renee Good, shortly after she told the ICE agents moving in on her, “I’m not angry with you,” when she was shot by a trained Iraqi war veteran, now a member of ICE… as she turned her vehicle away from the officers to flee the scene.

The second is ICE Barbie, Homeland Security Secretary (and ICE boss), Kristi Noem in her cosplay ICE garb, who seems to derive a strange pleasure from leading the cruel charge against those who criticize Trump’s policies. The last photo is the of the Iran Revolutionary Guards, an ICE/secret police equivalent in Iran, who have traditionally arrested, tortured and/or killed anti-government protesters. Whom do they remind you of? Rumors abound that the latest spate of major protests all over Iran have the Ayatollah making plans to flee the country. Once embraced by the populace, the rigid theocracy that has followed is perhaps facing its own demise 47 years since inception. If we can prevent the obvious reign of terror from the Trump administration from taking root, perhaps we can avoid waiting 47 years or more to remove that autocracy.

Shooting at a moving car, the demise that took out that blonde mommy in her blue Honda Pilot “mommy-mobile” fleeing ICE agents focusing on her – “classic terrorism” according the JD Vance, apparently not being assuaged by the stuffed animals in her car – reflects pretty much an increasingly “shoot first, ask questions later” disease impacting those local federal agents facing protesters, however lawful such protesters may be. Most police forces have a ban on their police shooting at moving cars, especially when there are lot of potential innocents in the area.

Writing for an Associated Press/Los Angeles Times article, January 10th, Libor Jany looks at this strategy of “provoke and then shoot” federal practice: “Trump administration officials have said the officers in both shootings defended themselves and feared for their lives after motorists tried to ‘weaponize’ their vehicles. Multiple investigations are ongoing, including by the FBI, and prosecutors have said no decisions will be made until those inquiries are complete.

“Although public perception — driven by Hollywood shootouts that often feature good guys with guns firing at moving cars — is that police shootings of vehicles are common, the reality is many agencies now advise against officers using deadly force on motorists unless it’s necessary to save their life or prevent others from being killed… The Los Angeles Police Department adopted its own rules along those lines about 20 years ago, after a controversial shooting of a teenage boy who was killed while fleeing police in a stolen vehicle.

“Many policing experts say having to shoot at a moving car is among the most dangerous and unpredictable situations an officer can face… The risk, they say, is that a driver who is shot will lose control. The New York City Police Department was among the first to adopt limits, following a 1972 shooting that killed a 10-year-old passenger in a stolen car and sparked protests. In the decades since, dozens of other departments have adopted similar policies. Influential policing organizations such as the Police Executive Research Forum and the International Assn. of Chiefs of Police have recommended restrictions, which in the past have also been pushed by the Justice Department.

“Bill Essayli, who leads the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles, said at a news briefing Friday that the recent incidents involved ‘agitators’ who were ‘trying to create a situation that causes chaos, and they want to trigger a response from law enforcement because they disagree with our immigration laws.’” Ignoring what used to be a respected law degree from the prestigious Yale School of Law, Yale law grad JD Vance lied to the world when he stated that the relevant ICE officer operated with “absolute immunity”… apparently spreading the 2024 presidential immunity ruling the US Supreme Court applied to a currently out-of-control mentally and physically impaired president… to the entire staff of the Trump administration. Now that the FBI is in sole charge of the Renee Good shooting, we should assume that the ICE agent who shot her will walk away without a blemish on his government record.

I’m Peter Dekom, and deterring criticism and punishing the opposition – the obvious and oft-stated purpose of the heightened federal response of the “weaponized” federal forces turned on people Trump does not like – people exercising their fundamental American rights – and efforts to extinguish these rights, or intimidating Americans from even trying to exercise those rights, need to be stopped, firmly and forever.