Self-Serving Hypocrisy

Although Trump and Bondi hope that “Operation Epic Fury” will fade their faults and overshadow all the domestic unrest, the fact still remains that two peaceful protesters were killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis. A disabled woman was dragged from her car even though she wasn’t part of the protests and was on her way to a medical appointment. She is a U.S. citizen, but she was removed so violently that her shoulders were injured, possibly permanently. None of the ICE agents have been investigated, let alone charged in any of these incidents.

As a follow-up, the disabled woman attended the most recent State of the Union Address as a guest of her Congresswoman and was arrested for disturbance even though she said nothing and bore no signs and did nothing to create a disturbance.

Yet Attorney General Pam Bondi has charged thirty-nine protesters for disrupting a service in Minneapolis at a church where one of the pastors was an ICE official, even though no one was injured or hurt. Bondi claimed that the protesters “attacked” a house of worship and stated that if any such protests occurred again, “we will find you, arrest you, and prosecute you.”

Contrast the reaction to a peaceful protest against a pastor who is an ICE official with the lack of Department of Justice response to the killings and violence perpetrated in Minneapolis by ICE agents.

Disturbing a church service merits charges against 36 protesters and three media types who were trying to report on the protests, but ICE killings and violence against peaceful protesters doesn’t merit investigation and charges?

What does that tell you not only about ICE, but also about the power of the religious right in the United States?

1 thought on “Self-Serving Hypocrisy”

  1. KevinJ says:

    It’s all about the retribution. (It’s also all a con but it always has been.)

    Remember when Ukraine’s prez didn’t suck up to Chump, and got ambushed on camera in the Oval Office? Now Iran didn’t kowtow sufficiently. A physical assault this time.

    But the pattern is clear.

    Protest against ICE? Get shot. Disrupt a (Christian) church? Get charged. Do anything whatsoever that Dorktator Don doesn’t like? Get attacked. Somehow.

    Fascism lives.

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