Americans are under siege by our own military forces

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...in October of last year, NPT asked the qestion, 'Could President Trump really use the U.S. military against Americans?'

Today, the nation is under siege by the militarized federal agents who are no longer pretending they're operating out of concern for public safety, but are basically terrorizing communities in an effort to bend Americans to their open-ended, prevaricating mission that perversely is claiming to be 'defending our culture' as it eviscerates expectations of freedom and liberty in America with their state-sponsored, presidential-directed repression and tyranny.

ANDREW LIMBONG, NPR HOST:

Here's a line that caught our eye this week. Quote, "to capture a democratic nation, authoritarians must control three sources of power - the intelligence agencies, the justice system and the military," end quote. That's from a piece written by Tom Nichols in The Atlantic. Nichols is a staff writer there and a professor emeritus of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, and he argues that President Trump has already brought America's intel agencies and the justice system under his control. But the military remains the last obstacle, at least for now.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/11/nx-s1-5567913/could-president-trump-really-use-the-u-s-military-against-americans

Just months ago the fear was that Trump would invoke 'martial law' to strip Americans of their right of free movement and other legal expectations and rights of citizenship. Now we have seen that the devastating budget republicans just passed on their own votes which inflated our immigration control agency budget beyond any other law enforcement division in the country wasn't actually meant to effect the removal of the 'worst of the worst' of undocumented immigrants from the country.

What this republican administration plotted and engineered was the creation of a mostly secret militarized force basically answerable only to the president which Trump immediately directed into American communities to raid homes, churches, workplaces, schools, hospitals, even courts of law to arbitrarily snatch and grab people into unmarked vehicles and abduct them away to place where it's almost impossible to find them, much less contact them; either making up justifications afterward, or just releasing people after days, even months in captivity with no explanation for their detention.

ACLU:

In July 2025, Congress voted to add an unprecedented $170 billion to the Trump administration’s already massive budget for immigration enforcement, which has funded these indiscriminate raids. Congress is now negotiating the Department of Homeland Security’s budget for the coming year which would allocate even more funding to turbocharge the Trump administration’s draconian immigration agenda.

“For months, the Trump administration has been deploying reckless, heavily armed agents into our communities and encouraging them to commit horrifying abuses with impunity, and, today, we are seeing the devastating and predictable consequences,” said Naureen Shah, director of policy and government affairs at ACLU. “Congress must rein ICE in before what happened in Minneapolis today happens somewhere else tomorrow. That means, at a minimum, opposing a Homeland Security budget that supports the growing lawlessness of this agency.”

On December 17, 2025, the ACLU of Minnesota and its partners filed Tincher v. Noem, a lawsuit challenging ICE violence and misconduct towards Minnesotans exercising their First Amendment rights to assemble, observe, and protest federal agents’ immigration enforcement activities in our streets.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-and-aclu-of-minnesota-demand-immediate-action-after-ice-shoots-and-kills-minnesota-woman

One of the most chilling developments after the killing of Renee Good by that ICE agent has been the administration's refusal to even investigate the killing, summarily deciding the summary execution in our streets was justified, while simultaneously declaring their victim a 'domestic terrorist;' Good armed with words, and her killer armed with a federal government-sponsored gun.

Trump killed Renee Good; his agent dutifully carrying out the very mandate Trump gave him to 'defend the culture;' a directive to his militarized forces which have been cast in the mold of this anti-American regime which regards everyone except their cabal and those who give fealty to it as an enemy to their state of power and authority over us all.

That power and authority Trump's militarized forces are wielding against us isn't some defense against actual threats to the nation; to federal agents; or even to their perverse and arbitrary exercise of state power against people in this country. It's all about Trump's desire to control Americans and intimidate us into submission to whatever he chooses to do with our taxpayer-funded government and resources.

Trump believes Americans aren't anymore entitled to their freedom than the Venezuelans he's just declared himself ruler over; all through his autocratic exercise of our military forces as he bombs and kills scores of people we don't even know, and threatens to kill even more if their government doesn't bow down in submission to him and surrenders their country's resources to him.

Yesterday Trump gave an even more chilling assessment than the blame cast on Renee Good for having the temerity to try to move out of the way of the tyranny of Trump's mercenary thugs, declaring that the woman who told her killer with open arms just seconds before he shot her point blank in the face that, "she wasn't mad at him," claimed that she was "disrespectful to law enforcement."

“At a very minimum, that woman was very, very disrespectful to law enforcement,” Mr. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday evening.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/trump-shooting-renee-good-ice.html

We can either pretend that his remarks were just more of the ranting he does to hear himself talk, or we can recognize that the president of the United States excusing a federal agent accountable primarily to the chief executive for the killing of a U.S. citizen by declaring the victim 'disrespected law enforcement,' is a deliberate intimidation to all Americans who would dare to question his or his agent's authority.

Of course, the most chilling development in the wake of Good's execution is the federal government's refusal to either investigate the killing, or even cooperate with state authorities in their efforts to investigate the fatal incident. That's is a direct signal to law enforcement EVERYWHERE in the country that the federal government under Donald Trump will excuse and justify any and all extrajudicial killings of American citizens by agents or officers, even in the most egregious of circumstances where reasonable doubt exists.

It's worse than that, but just on the face of this autocratic regime, and looking at the violent and increasingly deadly operation and actions of the president's personal militarized forces who are assaulting, shooting, and killing people in the country with the relative impunity he's affording them ("absolute immunity" as the vice-president characterized it), no American can regard themselves as safe or immune from some immediate and arbitrary militarized force being used against them.

You can get yourself, abducted, roughed up, interrogated, shot, or indefinitely jailed out here just going to work, school, shopping, to church, to court, to the doctor's; anywhere Americans long had the expectation of free movement before Trump's regime outlawed that right to travel freely without fear of harassment from police or federal agents.

You may believe you're in some protected group, but the self-interest of the Trump regime now outweighs any expectation of free will in America without first considering the fraught consequences of exercising that liberty in a nation under military occupation and siege by the federal government.

What did America do wrong to deserve this tyranny? For one thing, they voted for a convicted felon for president who had already demonstrated disregard for the nation's laws, and even an utter contempt for the laws and regulations that the rest of us are subject to.

It will be just a short minute before one of these enablers is caught up in their own noose. I'll be here for the Trump regime's lecture to that complicit victim about their own 'disrespect' that led a federal agent to violate their rights as Americans, and the 'absolute immunity' Trump's goons had in blowing them all away, because their silence and even cheering for Good's execution makes all of their 'Don't Tread In Me" bleating for decades and decades just a prelude to their present cowardice and supplication to the very same jackbooted thugs they supposed were just denizens of the pols they politically opposed.

Wait until they realize that the dandy from Mar-a-lago they thought was some kind of patriot, is just a self-absorbed traitor who regards them as collateral to his consolidation of power.

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1. In summary

1. Secret police are bad
2. Fascists lie

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2. 3. You are in danger

4. Cynicism is a luxury

(good summary)

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3. like a rock

...something for the journal, anyway.

At 65. I can scaracely hope to to have some substantive impact on the outcome, but I can still write about how I see things, for now.

Back to my hole in the wall.