*** “Cruelty constitutes the greatest moral distance at which an intelligent creature can be removed from a God of forbearance and mercy.” [ Elica Cook ]
This post is the third to describe to YOU the effects of ICE thugs on ordinary people, especially on traumatized children. The effects are often invisible – but the trauma inflicted on individuals, neighborhoods, communities, cities will NOT end whrn ICE thugs and Trump DICTATORSHIP cease to DELIBERATELY cause chaos and fear.
If YOU are a caring, decent American – these posts are a WARNING to YOU – what is happening throughout Minnesota can easily happen in YOUR state. – if some Far Right “influencer” decides to stage something hat sets off ‘our’ 13-year old president and the Rasputins around him itching for a new “crisis” they can USE to carry out their agenda
***. “a Stalin functionary admitted, “Innocent people were arrested naturally – otherwise no one would be frightened. If people, he said, were arrested only for specific misdemeanors, all the others would feel safe.” [ Paul Johnson ]
“Who will be the villains and heroes in this story? There are ordinary people responding to fear and cruelty, and there are those with unchecked power.” [ Ka Vang; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/9/26 ]; some excerpts:
2] “By the end of Wednesday, the impact of the expanded ICE presence moved through the Twin Cities like a tornado. Restaurants closed early. Small and large businesses sent workers home. Minneapolis schools closed for the week – not because of an official curfew or emergency, but because fear had settled over the city like a violent fog out of a Stephen King novel…the kind of fear that reshapes behavior. That rewrites the meaning of public safety.”
3] “Safety becomes conditional. Streets once neutral turn into sites of calculation. Is it safer to drive or to walk? To go to school or stay home? To shop in person or order online? To intervene or look away?”
4]. “This is how fear works. it redraws maps in our hearts and our heads.”
6]. “Trauma does not stay contained. It ripples outward – through families, workplaces and neighborhoods. It shows up as anxiety, exhaustion, distraction and grief.”
5] “The blood on the snow is red regardless of who it came from.”
7] ‘…the deeper truth. Her death did not just take a life – it altered how Minnesotans understand safety, power and proximity.”
1] “Renee Nicole Good was shot in the head and killed by an ICE agent in south Minneapolis – not while climbing a wall at the border, not during a hidden raid, not inside a remote detention facility…killed on a street where people walk their dogs, take their children to school and stop to greet their neighbors. A street lined with homes, meant to be ordinary. Until three shots rang out, and Good was dead.”
8] “One of my favorite writers is Stephen King, and what I love about his heroes is that they are always ordinary people responding to fear, power and cruelty that is unleashed. As for his villains, they are often embodiments of unchecked power. This sounds like Minnesotans and the Trump administration.”
9] “In King’s books, victory is not the absence of violence; it is the refusal to normalize it. When federal violence enters ordinary streets, the question is no longer whether we are afraid. The question is who we choose to be while living inside that fear.”
10]. “History will remember this moment and there will be no surprises at who the villains are. It will certainly not be Good and thse like her.”
*** “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples can sweep down the mightiest walls of repression and resistance.” [ Robert F. Kennedy, SENIOR!!!!; 6/6/1966 ]
With Justice For All 