Update to Blood and ICE

Welcome, my dear readers. I have an update to Tuesday’s post. If you haven’t yet read it, you can find it here. Anyone who has been reading the Asylum for any period of time should know I don’t give anyone a blanket pass based on political party, or even if I like what they are doing. I fully support our Nation’s current immigration policy and am glad to see the illegals sent home, and I really don’t like how leftist celebrities, Non-Governmental Organizations, and political figures have mobilized an army of useful idiots to impede those immigration enforcement efforts in their political strongholds. I think those who are actively inciting the violence are as much to blame for the consequences as are any of the other bad actors, rioters, or agents.

All of that being siad Nate the Lawyer has done a video on the shooting of Alex Pretti. As I thought in my previous post, it was a bad shoot. This video (here) has more footage, including that of the lady who ICE decked to start the entire confrontation. It turns out that by ICE’s own use-of-force policy, the agent who knocked the lady down was acting illegally. Since this is the case, Pretti was fully legally justified in intervening between the ICE officer and the woman. It also means any further use of force by the ICE officer was also illegal. To make matters worse, ICE had already disarmed Pretti and had possession of his firearm before they shot him (this is very clear from the video presented). Bottom line from a legal perspective, this is a bad shooting, and an officer will probably go down for this, and they should.

All of that being true, to fully understand the situation, one needs to realize that these officers have been harassed, harassed, and at times attacked for weeks at this point. They have seen colleagues injured and have been subject to thousands of threats not only to their person but also to their wives and children on social media. They have seen loonatics invade a church and threaten innocent people just going about their lives. As a result, they are very much on edge, and a bad shoot or another serious issue like this was inevitable. Sadly, this is exactly what the leftist celebrities, Non-Governmental Organizations, and political figures who egg the rioters on want. The Lady who was assaulted that started the entire Pretti incident had been following ice around and blowing a very loud over 100 decibel whistle in the officers’ ears for several hours, to the point where the officer had enough and put her down. Unfortunately, since no physical contact was made, the whistle-blowing, while annoying, doesn’t meet the use-of-force policy requirements, and similar cases have been ruled protected speech by the Supreme Court. So far as the ICE agent’s reaction to the whistle lady is concerned, this is probably a case of what is legal versus what is right, or at least understandable.

The goal is to whip their mindless masses into such an emotional frenzy that these types of incidents continue to the point that the streets of these blue cities are full-on war zones and resemble Beirut in the 1980s more than any American City ever. To combat that goal, the government needs to rotate out ICE agents weekly or every few days. Move agents from Florida, Texas, or other places where they are allowed to operate normally without harassment to places like Minnesota, California, and Washington, where they face harassment and abuse. This will help de-escalate by making it less likely that an officer is harassed to the point where they feel they have had enough. As tragic as this incident is, it appears to be an instance in which an officer had been harassed to the point of being on the edge of justification, and he lashed out. Even with rotating officers, it is still possible, but much less likely, for an event like this to occur.

In the final analysis, this is just like when kids are in the back of the car, and one is harassing the other with a finger right in front of the other’s face, “I am not touching you.” And after a bit, the harassed child has had enough and lashes out violently, touching the instigating child. This is just a larger scale with much more dire consequences. From a 10,000-foot view, in general, ICE’s actions deporting illegal aliens are a normal and lawful function of the department, but there are areas of the country with the right politicians and the right District Attorneys where this lawful function is being opposed by interests that hate America, primarily because they don’t control America. This case is tragic because a man died, and the officer responsible needs to be punished, not because we don’t understand, but because if we don’t have the rule of law guided by the constitution, we have nothing to fight the globalist madmen for.

Whatever else is done, we must oppose the calling into effect of the Insurrection Act because that is what the globalists want to happen. It will be used as proof that Trump is nothing but a dictator looking to seize control, and there are enough low-information people in the middle that it will flip lots of them. The government needs to follow the law and punish the officer, and it needs to start rotating officers out of hot zones to prevent them from reaching the point where they can’t take any more and lash out as much as possible. Then we all need to pray for peace, for Trump, and for our country.

To understand why the leftist celebrities, Non-Governmental Organizations, and political figures are so opposed to enforcing existing immigration law, and why they supported 4 years of open borders, all we have to do is look at Europe; nearly every country on the continent is having its culture diluted out of existence, and it is beign replaced by a culture that accepts and expects total control by the central governemnt. It is common for people to be arrested for social media posts that oppose government action, displaying thier nations flag, and defending themselves from rapists. Europe is lost, and if we are not smart, America will be next.

1 Timothy 2:1-4

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, ² for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. ³ This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, ⁴ who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

God Bless you,

-Sam