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   From: MEjercit@HotMail.com   
      
   Loose Cannon wrote:   
   > On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 08:22:37 -0800, Michael Ejercito   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> https://ethicsalarms.com/2026/01/08/further-ethics-observatio   
   s-on-the-i-c-e-shooting-in-minneapolis-1-the-right-and-wrong-isnt-in-question/   
   >>   
   >> Further Ethics Observations On the I.C.E. Shooting In Minneapolis…#1:   
   >> The Right and Wrong Isn’t In Question   
   >> January 8, 2026 / Jack Marshall   
   >> The Trump Administration, I.C.E., and those standing for the enforcement   
   >> of the law are in the right, with the ethics of this incident and its   
   >> context entirely on their side. The pro-open borders Left, including the   
   >> “resistance,” radical progressives (but I repeat myself…) and the   
   >> Democrats as well as the leadership of sanctuary states and cities, are   
   >> entirely wrong in theory, practice and conduct. The group in the wrong,   
   >> which includes much of the news media, is primarily responsible for the   
   >> tragic death of Renee Nicole Good. However, she was part of that group   
   >> herself, and bears some of the responsibility for her own death.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> I do not believe any of the above can be challenged on the facts, nor do   
   >> we need to have the results of the investigation to agree on them.   
   >> Yesterday, in the comments to this post, commenter John Paul wrote, “I   
   >> saw someone on twitter say how you perceive the video is what side of   
   >> the political isle you stand on. Now I’m wondering if that’s true and if   
   >> I’m looking at it objectively.” If your view includes the essential   
   >> principle of the Rule of Law and the duty of our government to enforce   
   >> it, as well as the right of law enforcement officers to use deadly force   
   >> when they reasonable feel threatened, a principle upheld by the Supreme   
   >> Court, then no confirmation bias is necessary or present to reach the   
   >> conclusion I just stated.   
   >>   
   >> There. Next question?   
   >>   
   >> There are several more murky and contentious issues on the ethics side   
   >> to examine, not that I am any more equivocal regarding those. To wit..   
   >>   
   >> 1. DHS, Secretary Noem, and the conservative media have to stop saying   
   >> that Good was trying to run down the officer who shot her. It seems   
   >> pretty clear that this isn’t true. Nothing in her background indicates   
   >> that she was prone to violence, other than the fact the middle-aged   
   >> white women in the country appear to be going crazy. She had a   
   >> six-tear-old child at home, and was not likely to have been willing to   
   >> risk being sent to prison just because he politics were warped in The   
   >> Great Stupid.   
   >>   
   >> 2. That does not mean, however, that the I.C.E. agent who shot her   
   >> didn’t have every reason, given the totality of the circumstances, to   
   >> fear for his life when a protester’s vehicle seemed to be heading his   
   >> way. Apparently there had been other attempted vehicle assaults on the   
   >> I.C.E. force that day. The tactic has been used elsewhere. The woman had   
   >> refused to obey a lawful order to leave her car.   
   >>   
   >> 3. As usual, the Axis news media is exacerbating public confusion with   
   >> partisan reporting. The New York Times: Videos Contradict Trump   
   >> Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis: An analysis of   
   >> footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be   
   >> turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire. Well, to begin   
   >> with, she was shot full in the face, so if the car was driving away from   
   >> the officer, Good could spin her head around like Linda Blair in “The   
   >> Exorcist.” It doesn’t matter what three angles in slow motion   
   “appear”   
   >> to show. What matters is what the I.C.E. officer believed based on his   
   >> vantage point.   
   >>   
   >> 4. The late Norm McDonald once did a stand-up routine about how the   
   >> female victims in “48 Hours” true crime episodes were always described   
   >> as wonderful, loving people who would never hurt a fly, that everyone   
   >> loved, and who were as pure as the driven snow. The Axis news media is   
   >> no bombarding the public with similar hagiography about Good. Her   
   >> parents—no surprise—say she would never have gotten herself in a   
   >> confrontation with I.C.E. The woman drove her car into the middle of an   
   >> enforcement scene and had it blocking the path of agents trying to do   
   >> their job. Fox News has been reporting that she was indeed one of the   
   >> recognized leaders of the protest. Maybe Fox is making that up, but the   
   >> fact is that she was there, creating the rebuttable presumption that she   
   >> was on the scene for a reason.   
   >>   
   >> 5. As I wrote in the earlier post: Gov. Walz, the disgusting Mayor Frey,   
   >> the sanctuary city nullification radicals, and the open borders   
   >> advocates, as well as the Biden Administration that inflicted the   
   >> illegal immigration wave on the country, are the major miscreants in the   
   >> Good shooting (which was also a good shooting). If local police   
   >> protected I.C.E. agents under siege for doing their jobs, which police   
   >> had a duty to do, Good would be alive today. Frey and Walz have directed   
   >> police not to protect I.C.E. If irresponsible leaders of the Democratic   
   >> Party had not been characterizing I.C.E. agents as “Gestapo” and   
   >> compared the removal of illegal aliens to the Holocaust, there would not   
   >> be so many gullible, emotion-driven fools putting Federal agents at risk.   
   >>   
   >> 6. It seems clear to me that the Mad Left wants another excuse to hold   
   >> mass demonstrations across the country, and that the death of Ms. Good   
   >> is just another pretense, like the death of George Floyd. Andy Ngo   
   >> reported that at lats night’s Minneapolis protest, the crown started   
   >> chanting about how the U.S. was all stolen land, so no immigrant should   
   >> be considered illegal.   
   >>   
   >> 7. The Axis wants protest, wants violence, and wants true insurrection,   
   >> not just a one day riot led be drunks wearing horns on their heads. That   
   >> is not a fact, but I believe it is awfully clear at this point.   
   >>   
   >> Note: I’m posting this without a graphic and without adequate proofing   
   >> to get it up before I get on a long Zoom meeting. I’ll fix everything   
   >> later.]   
   >   
   > It may just be safer if you turned yourself in, gook. It's obvious now   
   > that ICE is gunning for you   
   >   
       No, they are not, as I am an American citizen!   
      
      
     Michael   
      
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