Baptizing the lie about ICE and the killing of Renee Nicole Good

[Raven123]

The parallel is obvious. Short piece. Worth the read.




“The nuns were not just nuns. The nuns were also political activists.”

These infamous words were spoken in 1980 by Jeane Kirkpatrick, one of the top foreign policy advisors to incoming President Ronald Reagan, after the brutal murder of four American women, three of them nuns, by government forces in El Salvador. The four—Maryknoll sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, Ursuline sister Dorothy Kazel and lay missionary Jean Donovan—had been raped, killed and dumped in a shallow grave on Dec. 2, 1980, by soldiers of the Salvadoran National Guard on orders from higher up.

Ms. Kirkpatrick sensed, correctly, that such a savage crime might turn public opinion against the massive military and economic aid the United States was providing to the brutal junta ruling El Salvador. So why not put the responsibility on the unarmed, defenseless nuns instead? After all, they were already dead.

https://www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2026/01/09/baptizing-the-lie-about-ice-and-the-killing-of-renee-nicole-good/

[Ocelot II]

1. I remember that incident well.

And Jeanne Kirkpatrick was a neocon proto-Rubio whom Noam Chomsky once called "the chief sadist-in-residence of the Reagan Administration." She loved authoritarian regimes as long as they went along with whatever the US wanted.

[John1956PA]

2. I have been thinking about that parallel. The movie "Salvador" (1986) contains a plot thread about that atrocity.