I laughed out loud when I read this one.

Stolen from Irish 

(Note: Messing with the ICE folks is gonna get someone hurt…..)

All you ICE protesters: Be committed to change, not just winy protests and complaining like 8th grade girls.

If the protesters against ICE (currently in Minneapolis) really had any guts, and really wanted to make a difference, they’d step up and actually DO something….put their bodies in front of the ICE agents…Or start bringing baseball and golf equipment to their protests for kinetic demonstrations of their disapproval. If they really want to dissuade the ICE agents, they need to become more serious about it. ( Note: It is NOT a good idea to do so). Protesting is useless.  Action makes a difference. Maybe fight back with your own pepper spray and pepperball guns. Stand for something. (Warning, this might get you shot or worse)

They could, at least for a time, make a change……..rather than just wasting their time blowing whistles, honking horns, chanting, etc…Being what they think of as brave Protest Warriors, (and ineffective ones at that) isn’t gonna do anything.  Either step up and DO something, or go home. You aren’t all that brave and are not at all effective doing the things you are doing. So stop being a pain in the ass and make a difference. (Might get your ass kicked)

There always seem to be about 5 times the protesters than there are ICE agents. They need to step up  and make it personal  …they could pile on, get physical, and actually make a difference (for a time). OF course, that might escalate things, but still. As long as they are just an irritation, they won’t change things. (starting stuff with armed men, unless you have overwhelming force, is probably a bad idea). But stop just protesting and being a useless pain in the ass. Stop just chanting and shouting slogans and insults and make a difference with action, or go home.  Get in or get out (I suggest the smart thing to do is get out, go home….)

Will that change the equation? Yes, but it would also actually be DOING something, not just being a pain in the ass.

What you are doing now, no matter how good it makes you feel is useless and a waste of time. You aren’t saving anyone this way.

Step up or step off, as it were.

So do I

When are we gonna see the rest of the files, Pamela?

“Complaining generally changes nothing”

“No one is “Too Busy”…it is simply a matter of priorities”

“The truth often hurts the weak”

“That which you allow is what will continue”

“Ignorance is not just the absence of knowledge but also the stubborn refusal to acquire it”

“Honest and integrity are the best of the lost arts”

“Bending in small ways often leads to breaking in significant ones”

So I got an Emergency Alert on my phone today. Tones, flashing light, etc.

Of course, I grabbed the phone and looked at it straight away.

It was warning me that there might be some heavy snow and high winds starting this afternoon in my county…Really not an “emergency” and really not something to use the Emergency Alert system for.

It is a good way to get me and people like me to turn off the Emergency Alerts notification entirely……

If you want a system like that and don’t want people to ignore it, whoever is in charge needs to use a modicum of intelligence as to WHEN to use it.  Like when there is an actual or pending EMERGENCY. This is NW Indiana…we get snow, even lake effect snow, in the winter.  It happens every year. Not an Emergency. It is forecast on all 4 major networks and on the radio. Either way, not what I consider an emergency.

I’m really surprised it didn’t advise me to rush out to the store and get milk and bread.

Last time I got a useless alert was when some stupid bint in the health department decided that it would be a good idea to use the Emergency Alert system to remind me (several times) that I needed to get a Covid jab. I and a whole bunch of others complained about that one and I heard she got her access taken away.

for Agent Ross’s actions seems to be that “Last year he was dragged 200 yards by an arrestee trying to escape”.

This, however does not make a good reason for shooting Ms Good….In fact, it undermines their whole “state of mind” argument.

If he was still disturbed by the prior incident, was his judgement rational? (IF , and it is an IF, we accept that he was, in fact, in fear for his life)…Was his judgement sound? Or was it affected by and based upon PTSD from last year’s incident…, which would make him unfit for such duty as he was on that day,  as his judgement was impaired by previous experiences…..

Not saying this was so, but the excuse about the dragging incident doesn’t help his case….

So I am scanning channels today, and CBS has a show called “FBI”.

Not sure exactly, but it appeared to be something about a militia and a standoff with the FBI and some other Fed police tactical types.

BOTH sides were carrying firearms, but both the tac guys AND the militia were carrying AR-style rifles….with bare full length picatinny rails. No iron sights, not even folded backups….no optics either.  Like at least 5 guns on each side with just bare rails.

Sad, really. I bet the city folks that watch this show are impressed with the scary looking Black Guns.

I find it both amusing and disgusting that they can do a TV show with such obvious prop flaws.

In those venn diagrams:

Joe (Of Hoosierboy Blog :  AKA “Fat in Indiana”) asked in comments:

“If this had happened under Obama would you feel the same, or would this be an out of control gestapo-like agency?”

It’s a valid question:

So folks, ask yourself that question: If this was under the Obama administration, or even back when Clinton was running the show… Or just a few years ago when Biden (wasn’t) running things… Answer honestly…:

Would you view the actions and behaviors of ICE the same way as you do today? Would you blindly and unequivocally support them in the same manner as a lot of you are doing today? …When Trump is running things Vs when a Democrat is running the show? 

Reply, or don’t, but DO ask yourself and be honest with yourself in your answer.. Are you being consistent in your your evaluation of THIS federal agency and it’s agents and their actions ?

Remember, ICE today is even less restrained and less well behaved than the idiots we had in the ATF and the US Marshalls service back in the days of Clinton….

Is the total loss of credibility for Kristi Noem and Tom Homan. (even moreso as they hide their investigation of this latest debacle from every other state and local agency)

Their twisting of the facts and outright lies about the actions that day in order to protect the agents involved and to justify the shooting have destroyed any credibility they might have had.

Now the entire world knows that what they say may or may not be true and that they will lie and hide facts to cover up the actions of their agents.

No one will ever believe what they say again.

That’s the fallout when you blindly protect the actions of brutal cops that you recruited that were rejected by other police agencies.