The Gestapo Murder of Renee Good and Stephen Miller’s Nazi Rant
Stephen Miller, Youtube screenshot.
A hugely loved 37-year-old mother named Renee Nicole Good, of Colorado and Minneapolis, has been murdered in her residential neighborhood by armed agents of the Trump regime.
Videos of the brutal execution by an ICE battalion have gone viral on the internet. The killing is being widely compared to executions of unarmed civilians perpetrated by Hitler’s Gestapo.
Good was known as a “kind, caring neighbor” widely revered and treasured throughout her community. She was the married mother of a six-year-old.
Renee died immediately from gunshots to the head pumped into her car at point blank range by an ICE agent with a handgun. She was unarmed.
The viral images of the shooting show a cruel, gratuitous killing which has horrified citizens worldwide.
Representatives of the Trump regime have blamed the killing on Good herself.
On an icy residential street, Good was attempting to drive away from a scene of police confusion when a masked officer walked up to her driver’s-side door, pulled out handgun and pumped several bullets through Good’s open window. At least one bullet went directly into her face from a distance of a yard or less. As she died the car sped down the street. After it crashed, an opened passenger door showed that the air bag and interior were spattered with blood.
The killing took place about a mile from the infamous official May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd that helped ignite the MeToo movement. Hundreds of Minnesotans held a candlelight vigil to honor Renee’s memory and express horror at the killing. A furious Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey angrily dismissed ICE’s version of the killing as “bullshit” and demanded ICE “get the fu-k out of Minneapolis.”
The killing of Renee Good comes one day after a fascist rant by Stephen Miller, a top official in the Trump administration—deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, the central figure behind its zealous anti-immigrant stance and actions led by ICE. The rant recalled for a global audience the Nazi rantings of Hitler cronies like Heinrich Himmler and Josef Goebbels.
As Miller explained to CNN’s Jake Tapper, “we live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.”
Miller went on the justify Trump’s attack on Venezuela and to warn that it would be fine, in his eyes, for the U.S. to seize control of Greenland and other independently governed nations. In rhetoric recalling Hitler’s wars of conquest in the 1930s, Miller essentially asserted that U.S. military might would make it right for the U.S. to likewise conquer any country it might choose.
In combination with the Trump regime’s unprovoked attack on Venezuela, the slaughter of Renee Good, and the fascistic rantings of Stephen Miller have hugely raised the global fear that a new world war is a top agenda item for the MAGA movement now ruling the U.S. government.
“If…” was the title of a piece Thursday by Andy Borowitz on his “The Borowitz Report” on Substack (usually devoted to humor; this was not). “If Donald Trump’s government can murder a woman in broad daylight for exercising her First Amendment rights, they can murder any of us. If congressional Republicans had a shred of decency, they would impeach Kristi Noem. If those Republicans cherished the U.S.A. more than jobs, they would impeach and remove Donald Trump. If they don’t, it’s up to us to remove them. If you’ve had enough, let’s get to work.”
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