Timothy Birdnow

There is much sloppy thinking and emotional non-analysis of this shooting of this Pretti fellow in Minneapolis, and many ordinary people are being suckered by the media, which, after having lied to us previously in the death of that Good woman who ran over a Federal Agent (and he had interna bleeding to prove it) is now using unclear video footage to argue that ICE 'murdered" this angel of mercy, who was only interested in helping a woman who was knocked down by those evil goose-stepping Browbshirts of the Border Patrol and Customs. This isn't the first time they've lied to us about shootings or other deaths; take a look at "Big Mike" Brown's shooting in Ferguson where we were treated to the lie of "Hands up! Don't shoot!" when in fact that never happened, but rather Mr. Brown punched officer Darren Wilson in the face through his squad-car window and he had the injuries to prove it. Or we had Eric Garner, or George Floyd who died from a police "choke hold" (an entirely legal move) but the coroner said he had double the lethal limit of fentynal in his system. How many lies are we going to fall for? Yet here we are with a lot of Americans believing this fairy tale story about Mr. Pretti, even while the body of Renee Good has barely had time to reach room temperature and we know THAT was a lie. How many times can a boy cry wolf?

That said, the argument is that Mr. Pretti was an American citizen, exercising his right to protest, and was, in fact, trying to help a woman who was knocked down and pepper sprayed by ICE agents FOR NO GOOD REASON and then was set upon by a pack of wolves in riot gear who murdered him because, well, it's just so much fun! He had a gun but was had a permit for that, too, and they shot him after taking the gun off him.

These are all lies or half-truths and the media knows it, as does Governor Walz, Mayor Curley Frey, and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. (Oh, interestingly enough, al three of these men are implicated in the muti-billion dollar Somali daycare scandal and could wind up with prison time. It's very handy this shooting happened now so as to be able to accuse the Trump DOJ of a politically motivated prosecution and thus avoid it or find a way out of the noose.)

Let us define what it is we are talking about. Mr. Pretti was not just walking down the street but was attending a violent protest, a riot, or near enough. The people who he was standing with were screaming and blowing whistles and whatnot, obviously intended to disturb and distract the officers on the scene. The police were awol at the behest of Mr. Frey and Mr. Walz so these agents were alone in a sea of angry and contentious individuals, and that was by design; they hoped to povooke just such an incident. Mr. Pretti was attempting to interfere in a lawful arrest of a person already given deportation papers and who had a criminal conviction. They were not going after some sweet old grandmother who overstayed her visa; these were the bad people. Yet Pretti felt pretty good about them anyway, since he obviously hated MAGA and the American People. ICE was following the law as written BY CONGRESS. Instead of working to change the law he sought, along with his comrads there, to interfere with law enforcement agents, which is illegal.

He broke multiple laws and put himself in danger. Let me explain.

Mr. Pretti had a carry permit, yes he did. But what is a carry permit? It is a license to carry a firearm. Let me ask, would his behavior have been considered acceptable for any other license?

We're all familiar with driver's licenses so let's look at that. When you get a driver's license (and you don't need one if you drive on private land, just on public roads) you agree to a number of contingencies. You have to be sober. You have to be attentive (you get a ticket and can lose your license for careless and imprudent driving, for instance.) You agree to keep your vehicle in proper working order. You agree to follow the rules of the road, and drive on the right side (or if in Britain on the left). You agree to limit your speed as posted. And you agree to follow all directions given you by law enforcement officers, and to pull over if they hit their lights. And you agree to keep your driver's license on your person at all times, as well as proof of insurance for the vehicle.

If you fail to stop for a police car they will give chase, and if you get out of the car and try to run or make a move that suggests you have a firearm they will shoot you. That is how cops are trained, and rightly so; without that you descend into Mad Max/Road Warrior territory, with the strongest making the rules and the rest of us being dominated prey.

If a police officer says put your hands on the steering wheel you put your hands on the wheel. You don't reach over to the glove compartment or you will get shot. If he tells you to put your hands on the roof of the car you do it; you don't scuffle with him.

If we consider those things it becomes crystal clear that Mr. Pretti was playing with fire. He did NOT have his carry permit on his person as required by state law. He did not disclose he had a firearm to the agents as required by state law He went over to help the woman who was pepper sprayed (and no doubt for good reason) despite not being asked, and in fact while the agents were ordering him to stop. He disobeyed their lawful order and they tried to remove him and he began scuffling with them. He fought so hard, in fact, it took a number of them to restrain him (and in fact they still didn't have him restrained). They found one gun on him and there was no reason to believe he didn't have another and he was still struggling. Oh, and a recent report said it was not one agent but two who fired on him and only after the shooting did they recover the gun, according to CBS News, hardly a friend of the Trump Administration. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-federal-agents-fired-their-weapons-during-alex-pretti-shooting-report-congress-says/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=901725060

So TWO agents felt imperiled by this guy, not just one skittish agent. And at least one of them was an eight year veteran with ICE, not a rookie. Granted, you could argue that these guys were poorly trained because they didn't really do anything before now except facilitate the movement of illegal aliens into the country, and there could be some validity to that, but whose fault is that? Joe Biden's and Barack Hussein Obama's, that's who. They turned ICE into a baby-sitting operation. If they were poorly trained (and I sincerely doubt it) it was by design by the people Trump replaced.

If this shooting were by local cops of a guy they had pulled over and who started scuffling with them while packing heat nobody would say a word; it would be considered a justifiable shooting. But the politics of this is informing all the coverage and the media is twisting it to the advantage of the Democrats, who are more or less in open insurrection against the Federal government, going full Ft. Sumpter with this in the sour apple. This IS an insurrection, unlike the self-guided Capitol building tour which featured minor scuffling with the cops in D.C. (who actually invited many of them inside). Had there been a shooting there nobody would have complained overmuch. Oh, wait; there WAS a shooting there, of an unarmed woman who was just climbing in a window The cop, a guy named Bird, was promoted for it.

Amazing how the media's take on these two events is so shockingly different. They wanted everyone arrested and the key thrown away for the "insurrection" in D.C. but are happy to put Federal agents in danger now. In fact, the media likely wants deaths by ICE shootings; certainly Walz and Frey and Ellison and Ilhan Omar do. They need justification for further violence.

And if the Trump Administration "de-escalates" aka caves on this these riots will swell nation-wide. This is all about political power and the Left is using Saul Alinsky tactics here. They are trying to "rub raw the sores of discontent". In fact, this is standard operating procedure for Communist takeovers of countries and has been for a century. Flood the streets with "protesters" aka rioters then provoke the authorities into shooting someone, call it a "massacre" and then gin up sympathy from the public while isolating the people in power. OH, and they also demand resignations for it, to isolate the President as they did with Richard Nixon.

Anyone who falls for this is either monumentally myopic or just plain lazy. The media has lied to us repeatedly and we still fall for it, like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football. A lot of good Conservative folks are buying this nonsense too.

Anyone who saw any of those videos should immediately understand this was a completely justified shooting. You can't fight with the authorities like Mr. Pretti did and think you have the right to do so. That way leads to anarchy, to a dystopian society. Just because the agents didn't see him pull a gun out to shoot them doesn't matter; he had one and could have had two or three. Oh, and he had a semi-automatic and TWO clips. You don't need that to defend yourself. The sole reason he was carrying that was in case of gunfire, so he would have plenty of ammunition to shoot ICE agents if the situation warranted. He went there planning trouble and it found him.

We have to change the narrative about this and now. This is all about the next election; the Democrats needed a hail-Mary pass and this is it. They hope to sour America on deportation of aliens (which gave them a machine to win eternal power even if they didn't vote, which many of them did) and thus on the GOP in general. Many Republicans are falling dutifully into line too, believing dishonest polling and the Nightly News.

Don't fall for it.

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