Those who stay silent (or worse, support) are just as guilty as those committing the atrocities.

Thank you to all who sent birthday greetings. Very much appreciated :)

I don't know. After learning about the US citizen with no criminal record, door broken down with no warrant, thugs refusing to look at ID, taken from his home wearing nothing but boxers and crocs in 10F weather, made to stand outside to be photographed, how can anyone continue to support this operation? What kind of warped mind you must have to think this is okay. Sick sick warped mind. I am unable to insert links, but the story/video are here:

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/video-ice-agents-raid-st-paul-home-detain-elderly-us-citizen-on-frigid-sunday

And here is an interview with him:

https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/st-paul-east-side-hmong-man-detained-ice-chongly-scott-thao/

I continue to be physically sickened by the humiliation this man suffered. That all people of color are suffering.

My daughter came over with the grandkids last night. When asked what he has learned about ICE, 6yo grandson said they are the bad police. I explained there are good police and there is ICE which aren't even police, they just pretend to be police and wear police costumes. What a confusing time for kids. School is cancelled Tuesday and Wednesday as they transition to remote instruction because of the kidnappings at bus stops and on school grounds. For real. Children don't need to be exposed to these armed, wreckless, thugs. And yet, here we are. My grandkids will be okay, daughter being a former teacher who left the profession after being laughed at when explaining the science of reading (that she was using successfully with her students) to the principal and reading specialist. Daughter was ahead of her time, as the science of reading is being adopted nationwide...including the school district she taught in.

Daughter told me my three children are descendants of a Holocaust survivor, they can apply for Austrian citizenship. Apparently their father has already done so. I encouraged her to do so as well, so that they have a backup plan should this progress further and gets militarized. But to please bring me along if she can. Canada won't take me cuz I'm too old. Either way, I'll just have to stay here and fight til the death.

Anyone else think the demented one is nothing more a than a spoiled 2yr old whiny brat? His letter regarding Greenland is so ridiculous. It makes zero sense to this adult. I try not to hate people. Brussel sprouts and squash I can hate. The neighbor who repeatedly harassed me for years I can hate. I don't even hate my ex. But the demented one is not making it easy for me. I continue to hold onto my fantasy that other countries have a plan to swoop in and kidnap him and Stephen Miller for war crimes.

And that pastor that is also an ICE supervisor? Wha??? The protesters went too far entering his church I think. On the other hand, if ICE can enter any public space, than so can protesters I guess. What can this person possibly preach but hatred and discrimination? Especially since he dismissed switching license plates and pepper-spraying peaceful protesters as necessary to doing their job. Those privileged white people looking out for only themselves and their own salvation got a dose of reality. But the justice dept will be investigating it, praise the lord, while not investigating Renee Good's murder. The hypocrisy.

This period of time is not unlike the civil rights movement. The only difference is this cause has no strong leader like MLK Jr. There is no charismatic strong leader speaking up and against these crimes. It is only up to the little person to take big actions. The collective group.

I read this somewhere and took a picture, but I didn't copy the author, so I apologize and make it clear the following is not my original writing:

Those who have experience with life in an authoritarian regime know best what will happen if the Trump administration continues down its current path. But they don't see it in their self-interest to speak out. Social scientists call this the "collective action problem," when individuals acting in their own self-interest contribute to a worse outcome for the entire group. For advice on how to handle this, we should look back more than a century ago. An essayist who fought the corrupt politics of Tammany Hall wisely warned that speaking out is a skill that must be practiced; otherwise, we forget how to do it. A man who waits to make himself heard soon finds that "he has nothing to say," John Jay Chapman told the graduating class of Hobart College.