Blood and ICE

The cost and purpose of manufactured outrage

Welcome, my dear readers, to a Tinfoil Hat Tuesday. We haven’t had one in a while, but what I am seeing now requires one. If we look at the world since the 2024 election, much of the damage that started with Obama has been undone. Our borders are more secure than they have been in decades, freedom of speech is being restored in public forums (social media), Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is nearly dead, and almost all of the other aspects of the social cancer that is woke are in massive decline. Facts are starting to matter over feelings, and while the change isn’t total or perfect, there has been a massive shift in public perception.

More and more evidence indicating that the 2020 election was stolen keeps surfacing, more people are sick and tired of calling evil good, and the myth of green energy is on its last legs. We have started our society back onto a good trajectory. While I don’t like a lot of what Trump has done or the fact that he and his administration consistently fail to keep promises, I do like that he is not a part of the globalist system that has consumed Europe and was working on America. For the most part, even the things I don’t like still put a spanner into the global agenda. This has the leftist in full panic mode, just as they were at the end of Trump’s first term.

Now, with midterms approaching, the left has to wrest control of Congress back into their hands or risk their agenda being set back decades, if it can ever recover. So, look closely at what is going on. Some people will say that history repeats itself and others that history rhymes. I think both are true depending on context and the amount of time that has passed between events. In 2020, George Floyd, a multiple-time felon in the process of resisting arrest for his most recent felony, died of a drug overdose (because he ate his entire stash to hide it from the cops). The left latched onto that as an excuse and proceeded to violently riot in many major blue cities, ultimately killing 42 people. They even went so far as to take over a section of Seattle and declare it independent of the United States.

At the time, there were two prerequisites for Burn, Loot, and Murder (BLM), American Communists, and other groups supported by World Economic Forum (WEF)-aligned Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to go full murder hobo and loot goblin, cleaning out and burning down stores. The first was the area had to have a Soros-backed District Attorney, and second, the city and/or state government had to be fully leftist-controlled. These two factors ensured that even the most violent of protestors wouldn’t be prosecuted and that the chaos wouldn’t ever face any real resistance so long as it was useful. I still think that bastion of rape, murder, and gang warlord rule that was the autonomous zone in Seattle in 2020 was bait. The organizers and financiers (who never actually get their hands dirty) wanted Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act. They gave Trump a textbook legal reason to invoke the act, knowing that legality and truth don’t matter. Those who funded and encouraged the violence knew that, with the help of a compliant media, they could spin a legal use of the Insurrection Act as proof that Trump was a dictator and tyrant. They wanted useful idiots to die by the score fighting for “freedom.” The more blood and horror, the better chance their emotional story would overcome facts.

Fortunately, Trump didn’t fall for it then. If that was wisdom or luck, who knows. The important thing is he didn’t fall for it. Now we have manufactured issues in the same blue places and nowhere else. This has resulted in at least two tragic deaths. After watching the video, it is sad, but the shooting of Renee Good was 100% justified. She lined her car up with a stationary officer and then proceeded to floor it, endangering the officer’s life while resisting lawful detention for obstruction. It is messy and ugly, but it was 100% legitimate. This is an excellent legal breakdown by a lawyer (here). (I like this guy because even when he doesn’t like the truth, he says it. You can see in the conclusion that he isn’t comfortable with what he has to say.)

I haven’t seen an analysis of the most recent shooting of Alex Pretti that wasn’t a political hack justifying their predetermined conclusion. I have watched hours of videos, including one shot by a lady just a few feet away. This doesn’t look like a good shoot. That being said, at the time of this writing, it is far too early to say anything for sure. All the videos I have seen show an ICE agent toss a lady to the ground, and then Alex intervenes. I have not been able to find a video that shows what the lady was doing at all before she was tossed to the ground. If history and the mainstream media (MSM) have taught me anything, it is that there is something in the seconds before the lady was tossed to the ground that could be a justification for the ICE officer’s actions. She may have been throwing rocks, spraying something, or any number of other actions. We don’t know because that footage doesn’t seem to exist in a public space. The only video that has been released is edited to the point where the ICE officer tosses her and was probably in the process of detaining her, and Alex interferes.

Let’s step back for a moment, because nothing happens in a vacuum, and look at the situation before we proceed to the incident. In the State of Minnesota, we have a ton of people who are in America illegally, many of them defrauding our government. Since Minnesota has declared itself a sanctuary for criminal aliens, local law enforcement will not help federal agents enforce immigration law, and worse, there is a growing body of evidence that state officials are not only complicit in defrauding the government, but in organizing and helping the violent mobs of useful idiots in resisting that enforcement. It has recently become known that the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota was a participant in secure chats hosted by Antifa (a terrorist organization) organizers and may be how some confidential and classified information has been leaking. Add to that, thousands or tens of thousands of people on social media (TikTok and Bluesky are the worst, but they exist on X, Instagram, and Facebook too.) either directly threatening violence, waving guns around, or encouraging violence against federal agents. Add to this that more and more protestors are showing up armed.

It is time for some nuance. I am all in favor of anyone who wants to carry a firearm at a protest or otherwise. I think all firearms regulation is unconstitutional, and I think non-violent felons should get their gun rights back after they have paid their debt (violent felons are a different story because there is a big leap from embezzling a bunch of money or getting caught with a substance the government doesn’t like to killing and maiming people for fun and profit). All that being said, carrying firearms requires the two things the left is the worst at: responsibility (being accountable for your own actions) and self-control (being ruled by intellect rather than emotions). So, if you are going to carry in an environment like we have in Minnesota, you have to stay out of the conflict unless it rises to a level that you feel morally obligated to use your firearm and are willing to accept the consequences for that use. One also needs to understand the actual law, not what some CNN hack or Terry the Tranny’s TikTok short says, the actual law. So far as I have seen on video, nothing that ICE is doing violates the law to the point that armed resistance is justified.

All of this from the Minnesota Government’s open support of illegals in defiance of the rule of law, the public figures calling for violence, and the useful idiots going out to obstruct or fight with ICE agents has been carefully planned and orchestrated across the country. It all serves to crank up the tension and the heat with the goal of violent encounters that can be emotionally charged to the point the weak-minded, feelings-over-facts crowds go full-on guerrilla war with full armed resistance in the streets. Because they want Trump to use the Insurrection Act. They want armed soldiers in the streets fighting American citizens. As soon as they have that, the MSM will forget all the escalation that came before and will float the “Trump is seizing power like a tyrannical dictator for no reason” narrative: “See, we told you so.” They will ignore the fact that if Trump does that, he has a very unambiguous and clear lawful reason to do so. They will ignore that there is precedent for doing so with riots, and that since 1957 the act has been used by presidents many times in just such situations.

• 1957 (Little Rock Nine): President Eisenhower invoked the Act to enforce the desegregation of Central High School in Arkansas after the governor used the National Guard to block Black students.

• 1962 (University of Mississippi): President Kennedy invoked the Act to quell riots and ensure James Meredith could enroll as the first Black student at the university.

• 1963 (Alabama Desegregation): President Kennedy invoked the Act twice to prevent Governor George Wallace from blocking Black students at the University of Alabama and other public schools.

• 1965 (Selma to Montgomery Marches): President Johnson invoked the Act to federalize the Alabama National Guard to protect civil rights marchers.

• 1967 (Detroit Riot): President Johnson invoked the Act at the request of the governor to suppress widespread civil unrest.

• 1968 (MLK Assassination Riots): President Johnson invoked the Act three times (in Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Baltimore) to quell riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

• 1987 (Atlanta Prison Riot): President Reagan invoked the Act to regain control of a federal penitentiary where Cuban detainees were rioting.

• 1989 (U.S. Virgin Islands): President George H.W. Bush invoked the Act to stop looting and restore order after Hurricane Hugo.

• 1992 (Los Angeles Riots): President George H.W. Bush invoked the Act at the request of the California governor to suppress civil unrest following the Rodney King verdict.

The MSM would entirely forget all the history and treat this like a unique, unprecedented, and excessive use of government power on peaceful citizens, when none of that is true. The play is to try and shift from reason, which has started taking over the public consciousness, back to emotion in order to retake Congress and stop the damage being done to the globalist agenda. I know there are plenty of Republicans that are on board with the plan, but to keep up the appearance of two separate parties, they have to at least look to be going along with the people who put them in office. Men of truly good character, like Massie and Paul, are far too few in our nation’s capital.

Now that we have the context of what the situation is like on the ground, I will tell you what the shooting of Alex Pretti looks like to me. Alex decided to interfere with ICE’s attempt to detain a lady (what she was doing and why ICE used that level of force to put her on the ground are unknown). At that point, he was obstructing, and ICE tried to detain him. Since these people are absolutely out of their minds with emotions and have no idea how the law works, Alex resisted to the point that he was violently struggling with 5–7 ICE officers. Alex, on all fours, had his shirt ride up, and one of the officers called out “GUN.” At that time, the shooting started. The officer who I believe shot first doesn’t appear to have had a clear view of both Alex’s arms to know they were both on the ground supporting his weight. As a result of the tension driven by threats, constant interference, and clear lack of support from Minnesota officials, the officer wrongly assumed a deadly threat and opened fire. It isn’t clear if he was the only one to shoot or if multiple officers shot (it may be by the time this gets published), but the result was Alex was hit at least seven times and was killed. The shoot was probably bad because there wasn’t a threat of death or serious injury at the time of the shooting. It may, however, slide because on a reasonable officer standard, I do think given the nature of the overall situation it isn’t unreasonable for the officer that shot to have believed there was a serious threat of death or injury. I guess we will have to see what comes out in the next few days or weeks.

Good shoot or not, Alex chose to go into a very tense situation armed, he chose to interfere with law enforcement activities, and he chose to resist detainment and fight ICE officers. In the end, regardless of what happens to the ICE officer, Alex Pretti is dead because he decided to play stupid games and he won stupid prizes. Ultimately, he holds a great deal of responsibility for his being shot. If at any point he had made a different decision, he would be alive. I have heard “Alex was just recording,” and he may have been right up until he interfered with ICE’s efforts to detain the lady. If that was out of line and she was just standing there doing nothing to cause the agent to violently throw her down, then let’s see the entire video, not just a clip that starts with the lady being tossed. Until then, there have been far too many cases of video edited to deceive for me to believe there wasn’t a reason for ICE to interact with that lady in the way we see on camera.

At this point, the real question is: will they go full riot, like the violence that erupted in the summer of 2020? So far, all the dead folks have been white, so I am not sure, but the calls for serious violence are getting louder. We also have to consider the new 8K OLED HDR TVs are looking sweet, and the 4K HDR QLED 2020 TVs are looking dated, so when opportunity knocks, as it were, some elements of the community may see a real need to liberate all those oppressed TVs. Whatever happens, I think it would be better to let them bus in agitators to loot, burn, and destroy large portions of blue cities (we can roast marshmallows) than it would be for Trump to pull the trigger on the Insurrection Act. In the first instance, rational commentators can make the emotionally driven madness look exactly like what it is, and large swaths of society are primed to hear that message. In the second, I don’t think any amount of reason would be able to drown out the sound of military boots marching down the streets of major U.S. cities at this point.

1 Peter 3:9

9 Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.

God Bless you!

-Sam