CAN’T YOU SEE THAT THIS IS HAPPENING?
It was just a matter of time. This time, his name was Alex. And he was trying to protect a woman from being slaughtered the way Renee Good was slaughtered. He stepped in front of her, tried to rescue her. ICE threw them both on the ground and maced them, incapacitating them. But that wasn’t enough.
They shot him 10 times while he lay there, defenseless.
Seventeen days between murders? That sounds about right. In fact, I’m surprised there haven’t been more in that time frame. The only progress that was made on Renee Good’s murder in that time is that the FBI agent who was investigating the case was forced to resign.
So nobody is investigating the case. These are “federal workers” who won’t be held accountable for their actions.
I want to go to Minnesota. I want to walk around in Minneapolis until someone kills me. That’s how I feel. I don’t want to be another victim of this administration but I don’t want to live through this any more. And a tiny part of me thinks that if I am murdered, too, then some of my friends will wake up.
I don’t want to die. I just want my friends – and their friends – and the whole midwest – to wake up. I want to shake them and shake them and say CAN’T YOU SEE THAT THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES?! until they finally wipe the sleep away and say, wow, Kirsten, I didn’t believe you before but now I do.
Now I see that the person leading this country has used fear and hate to propel this country into a civil war so that no one even trusts their own family members. Now I see that the leader of our country is using us as patsies so that he can become a dictator and line his own pockets with gold. Now I see that this insanity could have been easily stopped if someone – anyone – had stood up to him, sent him to jail where he has belonged since before he was ever elected the first time. Now I see that he’s been lying to us all along about absolutely everything, and lying more when he uses CAPITAL LETTERS in his insane texts to leaders of other countries and to white supremacists and to whomever is still reading whatever he writes. Now I see that there is unnecessary bloodshed on the streets and more to come.
I want to shake them and shake them until they know all this.
But they won’t. It’s like the whole country has been drugged. Like they just can’t see what’s going on, they don’t recognize the glaring lies, they don’t know that they are blinded by faith in a leader who isn’t doing anything that he says he’s doing. He is doing whatever he wants for himself and then he is lying to the public, the media, the country’s leaders, his own family. He lies and lies and lies and people believe him. Nobody stands up to him because they’re afraid that if they do, he’ll hurt their families. It’s like our country’s being run by the Mafia.
Only the Mafia is something I saw in movies and nowhere else when I was growing up.
This shit is everywhere.