The Secret Police Are Here

Rage churned in my gut, burned in my belly, burst into flame on my tongue. ICE is abducting 5-year-olds and using them as bait to get people to open their doors. It used to be you had to open your door to ICE before they could enter and they had to show a judicial warrant (as opposed to the administrative ones they have), but not any more. An internal memo instructs ICE officers they may break down doors and enter homes without a judicial warrant.

This comes after Stephen Miller announces that ICE officers have absolute immunity for anything they want to do. Jonathan Ross has total immunity for murdering Renée Good.

More and more people are being killed, abducted, kidnapped, rammed, beaten… often for no known offense. Just because a big strong, lily-livered coward with an assault rifle, combat gear and a face mask wants to assert his manhood and beat up a person of color. Or a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, if they get in his way or try to film him.

I'm seething with anger, and I know that all this anger, on the left and on the right, comes from fear. I'm afraid my country is leaving me. The country I went to Vietnam to fight for. The MAGAts are afraid they won't be able to maintain their white supremacy.

As for so-called Christian evangelicals. They are not following Jesus. The only time Jesus got mad was when he saw fraudsters ripping off poor people in the courtyard of the Temple. All the White Christian Nationalists know of the Bible are sound bites from Franklin Graham. Political power in this world comes only from Satan. The Kingdom of God is not of this world. See Matthew 4.8,9 and John 18.36.

But if I'm going to follow Jesus, I have to say, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do." Jesus has set a place for them at his table. All they have to do is choose to join him.