Between masked ICE agents and the Klu Klux Klan, any difference is negligible, if at all, cowardly domestic terrorists hiding from sight in broad daylight. Anonymity is a powerful weapon, license to strike, ruthlessly abuse and violently oppress, sans accountability. Strikes mind numbing panic, blood racing fear. Make no mistake, just as Mississippi KKK murdered James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, so ICE did murder Renée Nicole Macklin Good and Alex Pretti. In cold blood. Because, they could get away with it. President Donald Trump has accomplished the unthinkable. Reversing civil rights, throwing around the term “domestic terrorism” while that’s what he’s unleashed on any and all Americans who don’t further his supremacist agenda. As PBS reported back in 2024, “Trump seeks a second term vowing to dramatically expand his use of the military at home and suggesting he would use force to go after Americans he considers ‘enemies from within.’” Vanity Fair interviewed his former chief of staff, John Kelly, documenting that “[He]…warned that Trump admires dictators—including Hitler, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un—and that he frequently expressed frustration at the limits the Constitution placed on his own power.”… Read the rest “ICE, Klan – Domestic Terrorism”
No one could track all that was going on, but a pink-jacketed woman horrifically, dangerously close caught it on video. Alex Pretti beaten to the ground, shot in the back ten times in five seconds she recorded through terror and confusion, and managed to escape without ICE seizing her phone. Helped by a woman who gave her a different coat for cover, the “pink-jacketed woman” vanished, escaped to explode the regime’s lies. When I hear the word “cowardice” I think of muscle-bound, gun-toting thugs claiming self-defense against protesters with signs and whistles, and how Homeland Security shields them from legal accountability. When I hear the word “heroism” I think of Stella Carlson, the “pink-jacketed woman,” who absorbed the trauma up close and with nothing but her bravery to shield her gave the whole world the truth.
THOMAS R. SMITH is an American poet, essayist, teacher and editor. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals in the U.S. and internationally.
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ICE, Klan – Domestic Terrorism
By DWIGHT HOBBES
Between masked ICE agents and the Klu Klux Klan, any difference is negligible, if at all, cowardly domestic terrorists hiding from sight in broad daylight. Anonymity is a powerful weapon, license to strike, ruthlessly abuse and violently oppress, sans accountability. Strikes mind numbing panic, blood racing fear.
Make no mistake, just as Mississippi KKK murdered James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, so ICE did murder Renée Nicole Macklin Good and Alex Pretti. In cold blood. Because, they could get away with it. President Donald Trump has accomplished the unthinkable. Reversing civil rights, throwing around the term “domestic terrorism” while that’s what he’s unleashed on any and all Americans who don’t further his supremacist agenda. As PBS reported back in 2024, “Trump seeks a second term vowing to dramatically expand his use of the military at home and suggesting he would use force to go after Americans he considers ‘enemies from within.’” Vanity Fair interviewed his former chief of staff, John Kelly, documenting that “[He]…warned that Trump admires dictators—including Hitler, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un—and that he frequently expressed frustration at the limits the Constitution placed on his own power.”… Read the rest “ICE, Klan – Domestic Terrorism”