Captain Crook wants blood
Seth Abramson looks at numbers in Minneapolis:
The question media should be asking: if Minneapolis only needs 600 police officers to perform all general law enforcement activities in the city, why did Trump send 3,000 federal agents to execute a statutorily and constitutionally much smaller task?
Answer? He wanted a war.
He offers a breakdown at Threads:
Based on the size of the task and authority ICE actually has—merely executing judicial warrants for already-identified undocumented persons—we’d expect an ICE “surge” in Minneapolis to be about 100 agents.
Trump sent 30 times that.
Because he wants to declare an insurrection.
So if you’re an American paying only small attention to Minneapolis and wondering why things are crazy there, imagine your town being the target of an unprecedented federal op.
Big deal, right?
Now imagine the feds sending *30 times* too many men—most virtually untrained.
Sounds horrifying, right? But what’s happening in Minneapolis is much worse than even that.
DHS is sending volunteers from its ranks—the men who *most* hate blue states, cities, and Americans…and nonwhites.
They’re armed, masked, and have been told they have total immunity.
If you’re a Republican, take everything I just said but change the president to Barack Obama and the men populating the army that just invaded your town to ones who hate red towns, states, and Americans…and white Christians.
You would’ve called it a civil war two minutes in.
Of course, that analogy can’t be made because Barack Obama never pardoned 1,600 insurrectionists—many of them violent. Obama never said he wants to cancel elections. Obama never said he deserves an illegal third term. Nor is Obama a convicted felon known for personal violence.
Across the world people are asking, “Is America in a civil war?”
And the answer—for now—is a very simple one.”
Not yet—but only because Democrats aren’t like Republicans. If the aggressors and victims were reversed, the Second American Civil War would already be well underway.”
So as you watch Minnesotans protest and march and on occasion throw snowballs at the jackbooted, masked thugs who are killing them and violating their civil liberties every minute, say a “thank you” to them in your heart.
Because if this were Alabama instead, we would be at war.
