Touring the Valley: murder

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"Comply or Die"

11 seconds before the shooting, Mr. Pretti is restrained by multiple agents. Still from video by Philophon via Reddit.
The New York Times.

Greg Bovino, head of ICE, says the agents who killed a man on a public street in front of witnesses are the "real victims" and the dead man is to blame for his own murder as a peaceful citizen behaving legally. If Bovino had been around in the seventies, he'd probably have announced that poor Ted Bundy was just a hapless victim of all those nasty girls.

Even though the agents' faces were covered to conceal them from witnesses and cameras, a genuine, standard investigation into the murder would be able to determine the identity of the shooter(s). They would preserve the scene, collect evidence following strict procedures, identify whose gun fired the fatal bullets, who had GSR on their clothes, etc. But the perpetrator is unlikely to be named, because they didn't start a proper investigation at the crime scene, the evidence will have been mishandled, and all the agents will lie despite being caught on video from multiple angles; besides, DHS wants more of this.

They want you to be paralyzed with fear. They want a populace too terrified to complain. They want the perfect police state.

Recent Random Thoughts

"Do You Hear the People Sing?" Les Miserables

If you're aiming your cell phone at the same time you're aiming your gun, you're making a snuff film.

Just as we don't answer the phone for an unrecognized number - don't open your door to an uninvited knock.

It doesn't really matter that the victim was a nice guy, a nurse, a kind person, helpful, friendly. If it turned out that he was a heartless curmudgeon who kicked dogs, cursed at small children, and stole his neighbors' Amazon boxes, he still wouldn't deserve to be beaten by thugs and shot to death on the street for the "crime" of recording their behavior on his phone. These lynch mobs have been turned loose in our streets by an authoritarian regime hell-bent on intimidating and demoralizing us with their "comply or die" mentality. They give these murderous goons military weapons and send them out to act as judge and executioner. And they've been given a budget that is bigger than that of most armies in the world. The amount of money being spent to perpetrate vandalism, theft, assault, kidnapping, and murder tells you how much it is worth to the oligarchs and their henchmen to keep us in line. Let's make sure we don't stay in line.

Real law enforcement officers often detain armed suspects without killing them.

Minneapolis

Renee Nicole Good, as recorded by her killer moments before he fired his gun.

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” ― Margaret Atwood

It may seem weird that the regime thinks the ICE goon's own phone video somehow proves him innocent, when, in fact, it supports his guilt. But remember that their defense of him includes the assertion that the murder was actually self defense because he "felt threatened". He probably did feel something.

All throughout the most recent election campaign, It was Republicans who repeatedly told us, "Fuck your feelings" and reiterated, "Facts don't care about your feelings." Apparently their feelings are now considered facts.

A pleasant lady smiled and said she wasn't mad at him, and that drove him into a red-hot rage. How dare a woman - a woman! - not fear him and not take him as seriously as he took himself and his violent, authoritarian role-playing? Oh, yes, she was a threat - not to his physical safety, but to his fragile sense of self, his belief in his own importance, and to his and this regime's requirement that women must be subservient to male authority.

His snarled curse, after he wiped out her life, says it all -- "Fucking bitch." This is what the domestic abuser says about the woman who disobeys, who tries to escape. This is what the disgruntled male employee says about a female supervisor. This is what the sex-pest says about a woman who doesn't want him to buy her a drink, who rebuffs his demand for her time and attention.

The regime's presentation of this video as exoneration tells you what their position is. The woman who doesn't appear submissive, who doesn't instantly comply with screamed demands, the woman who cannot be controlled, whoexpects to go about her own business (as she has every right to do) -- that woman is a threat, and if she gets away with it, his very existence will implode. So of course, he had to kill her.

They want us to agree that any woman who isn't adequately humble and subservient deserves an instant death penalty.