https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/in-trumps-dual-state-dissenters-face
"By the time the sun set yesterday, Minneapolis had become a laboratory for a
new kind of American power. The death of Alex Pretti—a 37-year-old ICU nurse
who spent his nights caring for veterans at the local VA hospital—was not
merely a tactical error or an isolated use of excessive police force. He was
shot and killed in broad daylight by federal Border Patrol agents while filming
them with his phone, an act of documentation that the state immediately
reframed as an act of war.
Within hours, the highest levels of the government had reflexively defamed him,
branding a man who had been helping a fallen bystander as a violent domestic
terrorist. Pretti was the third person shot by this federal apparatus in as
many weeks, falling just over a mile from where Renee Good was killed earlier
in the month. His death marks a threshold: the moment when the state stopped
pretending to enforce the law and began using its agents to execute its
dissidents with absolute, publicized impunity.
While agents of the state engage in brazen extrajudicial killings, the highest
levels of government lecture us from their microphones that these are law
enforcement agents protecting American communities. It does not seem to matter
to them that we can see the killings with our own eyes, from multiple angles,
in near-real-time. They insist that the killers are the good guys, that they
are public servants and they are owed respect and deference. Such claims are
not credible to those who have seen video of the killings, and Americans should
decline to participate in this fantasy."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
