Okay, I just took a look at the videos of what happened to one Alex Pretti yesterday in Minneapolis. Pretti being the latest person to perish in the chaos that's happening there.
I won't pretend to have all the evidence/facts of the case. But what it seems to me, at this hour anyway, is that Pretti got himself involved in a bad situation and the Border Patrol direly over-reacted. That over-reaction was exacerbated by the presence on Pretti of a loaded firearm.
I think there're more than enough that went wrong in this incident to assign blame to practically everybody involved. There are no clean hands or clean hearts in this matter. No one can claim innocence. This almost comes across as an event that was bound to occur and the buck happened to land on Alex Pretti.
As I've said on Facebook and elsewhere lately, too many times now, there are some people who are thriving off of the anger and hatred of our time. Pretti was angry. It clouded his thinking. And it led to him being in a place he should not have been while possessing a gun. It was like bringing a lit match into an oxygen tent. It's simply something that no sane person *does*.
Pretti should not have been open carrying. At least not going into the environment that he was placing himself in. Tensions are high, emotions are running raw. Bringing any weapon into that stew of hate is inviting disaster. If Pretti wanted to protest, he could have done that without having a firearm on him. What WAS he thinking??
I don't like to use the term "collateral damage", I've hated that phrase ever since I first heard it years ago. But I'm trying my damndest to think of something that is more fitting with what took place yesterday. Alex Pretti and the Border Patrol collided and his death is the result of that. It didn't have to end like that. He could have still been alive tonight, getting ready for another day on his job.
People, think for yourselves! Stop being incited to anger and hatred. Stop listening to the politicians and the news media and too many on social media! They are leading you into bad places, doing bad things. I know that some of you think you're fighting against fascism. I've met victims of real fascism, many times during my life. What is happening in America right now is NOT that. The fact that we are freely discussing and debating this, without fear of having our doors knocked down in the middle of the night, is proof of that. Maybe that kind of thing happens in Britain and other places in Europe, but not here (I digress however).
Alex Pretti is not a martyr for the cause and the Border Patrol/ICE are not the new incarnation of the Brownshirts. This was a tragedy, an avoidable one, that resulted from too many terrible elements converging. And that's all it was.
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