Letter To The Editor: DO SOMETHING
I submitted the following letter to my local paper
It was murder. Did you watch the video? ICE murdered that woman.
They shouldn't have been there in the first place. It's part of Trump's campaign to terrorize our communities and swing around his Big Power.
And Republicans are calling it self defense. They're saying it was justified. They're blaming Democrats for it.
Democrats didn't kill that woman. An ICE Officer did. And the Federal Government supports it.
WAKE UP. DO SOMETHING (peacefully).
Go protest. Write your legislators. Advocate with local republicans - you can speak at County Board meetings!
Mary Miller, who wants Governor Waltz arrested, may be out of reach. But your County Board reps, who are part of this national party, are within reach. So speak up. Protest. Advocate.
They defunded PBS. Trump violates court orders. Military officers have been unleashed in American communities. ICE Agents are allowed to murder American Citizens. Immigrants are kept in concentration camps. Public Institutions have been threatened. We invaded a country and are stealing their oil.
And some time ago, the Supreme Court guaranteed Trump would be immune, no matter how many times he broke the law. And do you remember when his followers tried to overthrow the U.S. Government?
ICE has an official policy of profiling brown people and demanding they show their papers, whether they're citizens or not.
Thank God if you're white. Thank God if you're not trans. Thank God if you feel safe. It's a privilege we don't all get.
I read one commentator who suggested we should chill out with the rhetoric because it will empower them to retaliate, causing more tragedy. WELL TRAGEDY IS HERE. AND WE NEED TO ACT.
Our City Council should pass a resolution denouncing this federal government. So should others. We need local action across the nation. This is OUR country.
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