{"id":3031,"date":"2025-11-04T21:10:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/2025\/11\/hezbollah-and-ms-13-r-us-naked-on-bikes-in-frog-ears\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T21:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:10:35","slug":"hezbollah-and-ms-13-r-us-naked-on-bikes-in-frog-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3031","title":{"rendered":"<div>Hezbollah and MS-13 &#8216;R Us, Naked On Bikes In Frog Ears<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/survivor-of-war-ravaged-bike-riding-hell-hole-of-portland.jpg?id=61747451&amp;width=1245&amp;height=700&amp;coordinates=275,0,275,0\"><\/p>\n<p>Despite court losses, public antipathy, ridicule, a shutdown they ignore, the nascent police state lurches on with its daft apocalyptic narrative of an America in flames. Their victims include brown parents torn from kids, a minister shot, an 87-year-old veteran tackled, a beloved Black school official. Each time, their allies plead for &#8220;radical empathy.&#8221; Each time, ICE declines, stonily citing &#8220;public safety.&#8221; Joseph Goebbels: &#8220;It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition (that) a square is in fact a circle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In another up-is-down, whitewashing moment, on Monday the regime marked &#8220;Columbus Day,&#8221; thus <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114411157925493893\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><u>reclaiming <\/u><\/a>from &#8220;the ashes of left wing arsonists&#8221; the explorer&#8217;s noble, white Christian nationalist legacy of &#8220;faith, courage, perseverance and virtue&#8221; &#8211; not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/10\/11\/1044823626\/indigenous-peoples-day-native-americans-columbus\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Indigenous Peoples Day&#8217;s <\/a>theft, exploitation and genocide of almost 100 million Native people &#8211; to celebrate &#8220;the triumph of Western civilization, such as it is. In its name, Trump continues waging his war on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-fea...\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> free speech<\/a>, political opposition, constitutionally protected rights, brown people and anyone who disagrees with him in ongoing efforts to become the man-child king of an authoritarian <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/197173274870561...\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">hell-hole <\/a>most Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/contrarian.substack.com\/p\/it-turns-out-americans-dont-want?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=3719374&amp;post_id=175984309&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=l8hwn&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> don&#8217;t want.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Trump has declared eight national emergencies to justify his draconian powers, courts are largely holding the line, or at least a standoff, against the insanity. In Oregon, a three-judge panel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2025\/10\/04\/portland-national-guard-deployment-judge-decision\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ruled <\/a>200 National Guard troops called up can remain federalized but can&#8217;t yet be deployed in Portland. In Chicago, a judge temporarily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/09\/trump-national-guard-troops-chicago-ruling\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">blocked <\/a>deployment of 500 National Guard from Texas already in nearby Elwood; a judge also banned ICE agents from using &#8220;riot control weapons&#8221; against protesters there. On Tuesday, a Rhode Island judge <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.rid.59597\/gov.uscourts.rid.59597.75.0.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">slammed <\/a>the government for defying an order banning them from withholding FEMA funds from states that won&#8217;t cooperate with ICE crackdowns, calling them out for &#8220;a ham-handed attempt to bully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How far the regime will go to defy court orders may depend on vengeful Nazi <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/201387\/stephen-miller...\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">mastermind<\/a> Goebbels\/Miller, who calls every court decision they lose &#8220;legal insurrection&#8221;; his heartbroken relatives, in turn, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alisa.kasmer\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">call<\/a> him &#8220;the face of evil.&#8221; The ever-seething Miller <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/trump-honcho-s...\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">describes <\/a>protests as &#8220;domestic terrorist sedition&#8221; and the use of troops against them as &#8220;an absolute necessity to defend (our) government, public order and the Republic itself.&#8221;  Last week, saying the quiet part out loud, Miller lied the president has &#8220;plenary\u201d or absolute power under Title 10 of the US Code; then he blinked and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Military\/comments\/1o0x5ib\/miller_glitches_while_falsely_claiming_title_10\/\" target=\"_blank\">glitched out<\/a>, reflecting what experts call &#8220;cognitive overload&#8221; in the &#8220;reptilian&#8221; brain, often when mistakenly saying something damning. <\/p>\n<p>When not freezing, he furiously <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1971762700410...\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sputter<\/a>s out attacks on a &#8220;campaign of terrorism (that) will be brought down&#8221; by his righteous mission &#8220;to dismantle terrorism and terror networks.&#8221; At Charlie Kirk&#8217;s memorial\/rally, Miller thundered, &#8220;We are the storm&#8221; in a demonic, Nazi-esque <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IPcp67tidDY\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">speech<\/a> that posited &#8220;them&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;You are nothing. You have nothing. You are wickedness, you are jealousy, you are envy, you are hatred&#8230;Our enemies cannot comprehend our strength, our determination, our resolve'&#8221; &#8211; against &#8220;us&#8221;: &#8220;Our lineage and our legacy hails back to Athens, to Philadelphia&#8230;Our ancestors built the cities&#8230;built the industry. We stand for what is good, what is virtuous, what is noble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, trying to maintain momentum in the face of enduring resistance, Trump called an &#8220;Antifa Roundtable&#8221; &#8211; in fact a rectangle &#8211; to follow his declaration of Antifa as a &#8220;domestic terrorist organization&#8221; &#8217;cause he still doesn&#8217;t get it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/sep\/22\/trump-executive-order-antifa-terrorist-organization\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">neither<\/a> terrorist nor an organization, but simply anyone anti-fascist. Gathering flunkies and far-right influencers to help, per one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/trump-held-antifa-round...\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> headline<\/a>, &#8220;Protect Americans From Dancing Unicorns,&#8221; they repeated like an incantation the notion of &#8220;terrorism&#8221; and &#8220;insurrection&#8221; to make it so. In rhetoric echoing Press Barbie&#8217;s vow Trump will &#8220;end the Radical Left\u2019s reign of terror in Portland once and for all,&#8221; a press release referenced an imaginary &#8220;Antifa-led hellfire&#8221; and &#8220;a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"rm-embed twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"rebelmouse\" data-twitter-tweet-id=\"1976382769686098305\">\n<div style=\"margin:1em 0\"><\/div>\n<p> \u2014  (@)<br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDailyShow\/status\/1976382769686098305\"><\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump opened the meeting declaring, &#8220;The epidemic of Antifa-inspired terror has been escalating for nearly a decade.&#8221; He claimed \u201cpaid anarchists\u201d want to &#8220;destroy our country,&#8221; and &#8220;many people&#8221; have died in leftist violence; the correct <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/new-eyewitness-accounts-feds-didnt-identify-themselves-before-opening-fire-on-portland-antifa-suspect\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">number <\/a>is one, in 2020, followed by three deaths on the left. He <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atrupar\/status\/1976776133887549815\" target=\"_blank\">raved <\/a>about &#8220;flag-burning mobs,&#8221; &#8220;degenerates&#8221; and, without irony, &#8220;people that want to overthrow government&#8221; before occasionally <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovPressOffice\/status\/1976033049654726994\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">nodding off, <\/a> Everyone agreed with him about everything. &#8220;This is not activism, it&#8217;s anarchy,&#8221; intoned Pam Bondi before vowing to take &#8220;the same approach&#8221; to Antifa as to drug cartels: &#8220;We&#8217;re going to take them apart,&#8221; and then presumably, summarily <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/svdate\/status\/1976049416369995951\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">kill<\/a> them from above? <\/p>\n<p>A suitably icy ICE Barbi<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/kristi-noem-says...\" target=\"_blank\">e vowed<\/a> to &#8220;eliminate Antifa from existence.&#8221; &#8220;They are just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA (Tren de Aragua]), as Isis, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, all of them,&#8221; she said. They are just as dangerous. They have an agenda to destroy us.&#8221; Despite that peril, she later bravely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/kristi-noem-praised-stari...\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ventured <\/a>to war-torn Portland, where protests <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NancyRomm\/status\/1976974181431705764\" target=\"_blank\">cover <\/a>about a block of its 135 square miles. There, MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1975662466874175498\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">gushed, <\/a>she survived mean signs &#8211; &#8220;Molotovs Melt Ice&#8221; &#8211; and, from a rooftop, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1975662466874175498\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">stared down<\/a> an Antifa army,&#8221; aka a few protesters<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social\/post\/3m2nbexipfc2z\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\/enemy combatants <\/a>and a guy in a chicken costume. Also in her entourage was a (pardoned) Jan. 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/davidmedinapdx\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">rioter <\/a>who&#8217;d just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/media\/1338881\/dl?inline\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">texted<\/a> a friend, \u201cWe need a war, bro.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At a Cabinet meeting later that week, Noem <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Acyn\/status\/1976326164315783210\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">claimed<\/a> city, state and police officials &#8211; &#8220;all lying, disingenuous, dishonest people!&#8221; &#8211; were &#8220;absolutely <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RonWyden\/status\/1976679424117612841\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">covering up<\/a> the terrorism hitting their streets&#8221; because otherwise why was the city so quiet? Sen Ron Wyden: &#8220;Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to endure the dogs, farmers&#8217; markets, capybaras (at Debbie Dolittle&#8217;s Petting Zoo&#8221;) and marathon runners of Portland.&#8221; Wrote Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo: &#8220;I never thought renowned puppy-killer Kristi Noem would be so afraid of protesters wearing frog costumes, but here we are&#8230;There is no terrorism happening here. I think that they are just a very scared people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To the press later, Trump praised Noem and promised to punish people who create mean signs. In one hilarious, terrifying moment, he was asked if, given all the terrorism, he&#8217;d given more thought to suspending habeas corpus, the constitutional protection from <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/habeas-corpus-a-thousand-year-old-legal-principle-for-defending-rights-thats-getting-a-workout-under-the-trump-administration-254525\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">unlawful detention<\/a>. &#8220;Uh, suspending who?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Habeas corpus.&#8221; &#8220;I dunno,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I\u2019d rather leave that to Kristi &#8211; what do you think?\u201d Kristi: &#8220;Umm&#8230;&#8221; George Conway: &#8220;President Non Compos Mentis has no idea what the writ of habeas corpus is.\u201d Still, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atrupar\/status\/1976776133887549815\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">yammered<\/a>, Portland is &#8220;a burning hellhole&#8230;You don\u2019t even have stores anymore. They don\u2019t put glass up. They put plywood. Every time I look at that place it\u2019s burning down. There are fires all over the place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Federal agents face off against an inflatable frog in Portland.\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"fe83feedee2fb4c757d3d9ec8ebb153c\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"f6dda\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/federal-agents-face-off-against-an-inflatable-frog-in-portland.jpg?id=61752471&amp;width=980\"> <small class=\"image-media media-caption\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Caption...\">Federal agents face off against an inflatable frog in Portland.<\/small><small class=\"image-media media-photo-credit\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Credit...\">Photo by Mathieu Lewis-Rolland\/AFP via Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Somehow, despite their noise and power, Americans still aren&#8217;t buying it. Last week, the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1976668787467514316\" target=\"_blank\">bragged<\/a> a video of Noem blaming the shutdown on Dems was \u201ccurrently playing at every public airport in America.&#8221; Not: Multiple airports are <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/201697\/airports-pushi...\" target=\"_blank\">refusing<\/a> to play it, citing the Hatch Act and opposing &#8220;using public assets for political propaganda. Immigration lawyer Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: &#8220;Can you think of a single movie in which there&#8217;s a government video denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces (and) that government was the good guy?\u201d In Chicago store fronts have started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100220711194\" target=\"_blank\">displaying <\/a>signs that read, &#8220;ICE do not have consent to enter this business unless they have a valid judicial warrant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And mockery rejecting the right&#8217;s ludicrous narrative is rife. &#8220;This is JB Pritzker reporting from war-torn Chicago,&#8221; began one video from the governor. &#8220;It\u2019s quite disturbing. The Milwaukee Brewers have come in to attack our Chicago Cubs. I&#8217;ve seen people being forced to eat hot dogs with ketchup. Our deep dish pizza has gone shallow&#8230;.It\u2019s a challenge to survive here, but there\u2019s no hellscape I\u2019d rather be in.&#8221; Late-night&#8217;s Jimmy Kimmel, citing &#8220;demonstrators in animal costumes dancing to Farruko\u2019s <em>Pepas<\/em>,&#8221; asked viewers in Chicago, Portland, Memphis etc to prove how crimey their cities are by sending in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koin.com\/news\/portland\/jimmy-kimmel-wants-to-see-portlands-hellhole-amid-trumps-claims-against-city\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\">videos<\/a>:of their own war-ravaged communities under the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/ShowMeYourHellhole?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\">#ShowMeYourHellhole.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TrumpCuntry\/status\/1976118265228493098\" target=\"_blank\">Memes<\/a> abound, especially in Portland, where proudly weird residents have embraced the goofy. &#8220;Breaking: Antifa founders identified!&#8221; (Churchill and FDR). &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social\/post\/3m2krnaxwxs25\" target=\"_blank\">Boomerfita <\/a>from the war zone&#8221; (boomers\/<em>his Land Is Your Land). <\/em>&#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:t6ubj2wlhc34awzcymh3qpur?ref_src=embed&amp;ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.democraticunderground.com%252F100220708739\" target=\"_blank\">Battle<\/a> of Voo Doo donuts rages on!&#8221; (ICE\/donuts). Deadly <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pdxfrontline\/status\/1975758838881263811\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">dance parties <\/a>(large blow-up animals). Gavin Newsom: &#8220;WE <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovPressOffice\/status\/1975793415049941186\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">FOUND <\/a>THE PORTLAND WAR ZONE PETE !!&#8221; (Ditto.) Tales of brutal brunch lines, soup groups disrupted, an eight-year-old&#8217;s soccer team clobbered by a gang of bandits. The OG Frog has been <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MAGACult2\/status\/1977185756365066478\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">joined <\/a>by a shark, chicken, dolphin, polar bear, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.registerguard.com\/picture-gallery\/news\/politics\/2025\/10\/12\/see-photos-of-the-emergency-world-naked-bike-ride-in-portland\/86662348007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">alligator<\/a>, maybe rooster, more frogs &#8211; &#8220;He&#8217;s a friend from another pond&#8221; &#8211; and chants: &#8220;Frog, frog, frog.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Sunday also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/portland\/2025\/10\/naked-...\" target=\"_blank\">saw <\/a>an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/portland\/2025\/10\/naked-...\"><\/a> emergency run of Portland&#8217;s World Naked Bike Ride, a \u201cquintessentially Portland way to protest\u201d that draws up to 10,000 riders each summer. This one, in pouring rain with a die-in mid-ride, drew about 1,000, many in more-than-usual clothes or with clear ponchos over messages on chests and backs &#8211; &#8220;We&#8217;re Cold But Not As Cold As ice, No Faux King Way, End Occupation&#8221; &#8211; and one brave soul playing bagpipes on a unicycle. The mood was jubilant. \u201cJoy is a form of protest,&#8221;&#8221; said one. Also, &#8220;The people are willing to be vulnerable and stand up for something they believe in,&#8221; and from a tearful 70-year-old, &#8220;Damn, this is a good place to live. This city has a beating heart of love and compassion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not so a GOP <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nicksortor\/status\/1977547494469873795\" target=\"_blank\">horrified<\/a> by the joyful spectacle. Asked where&#8217;s the limit on &#8220;acceptable conduct&#8221; by federal agents facing protesters, sanctimonious prig and liar MAGA Mike cited their &#8220;abuse by radical leftist activists&#8221; before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/portland\/2025\/10\/us-hou...\" target=\"_blank\">adding<\/a> &#8220;the most threatening thing I&#8217;ve seen&#8221; was those giddy bicyclers: &#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s getting really ugly.&#8221; Go fuck yourself, Mike. He also charged they&#8217;d attacked cops (not), with many arrests. About 30 protesters have been arrested since June, with about half accused of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/crime\/2025\/10\/portland-man-accused-of-spitting-in-face-of-federal-officer-outside-ice-building.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/crime\/2025\/10\/portland-man-accused-of-spitting-in-face-of-federal-officer-outside-ice-building.html\">assaults&#8221;<\/a> like spitting, shoving, throwing a water bottle, kicking back a tear gas cannister. Police made no arrests Sunday; ICE agents detained one person &#8211; a clarinetist with a protest band &#8211; for an unknown &#8220;crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For things getting &#8220;ugly,&#8221; check out an evil plot, informally dubbed &#8220;Freaky Friday,&#8221; wherein the feds will offer $2,500 <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/10\/03\/ice-children-d...\" target=\"_blank\">bribes<\/a> to previously <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Mu7X5\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tracked, <\/a>unaccompanied migrant minors over 14 in exchange for them agreeing to be deported to the countries they fled. Advocates denounce the &#8220;cruel&#8221; notion of coercing vulnerable kids whose <a href=\"https:\/\/latino.ucla.edu\/unaccompanied-children-are-under-attack-again\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">funding <\/a>for legal support has been cut to waive their rights for a cash incentive, or &#8220;resettlement support stipend&#8221; &#8211; especially when they&#8217;re told that, if they say no, they&#8217;ll be picked up when they turn 18 by an abusive force of masked, armed federal agents <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/trump-ice-smashed-...\" target=\"_blank\">repeatedly found <\/a>to be the out-of-control aggressors &#8211; from smashing windows to people&#8217;s faces &#8211; during arrests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A so-called federal law enforcement official responds to being filmed.\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"132e90a2ad01182e87c03c2eab3b871f\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"29c55\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/a-so-called-federal-law-enforcement-official-responds-to-being-filmed.jpg?id=61752528&amp;width=980\"> <small class=\"image-media media-caption\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Caption...\">A so-called federal law enforcement official responds to being filmed.<\/small><small class=\"image-media media-photo-credit\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Credit...\">Photo from BlueSky<\/small><\/p>\n<p>In response, ICE argues they use &#8220;objectively reasonable force.&#8221; Tell it to Rafie Ollah Shouhed, a longtime, 79-year-old car wash owner in California who <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/79-year-old-american-citizen...\" target=\"_blank\">filed<\/a> a federal civil rights suit seeking $50 million after ICE thugs stormed his business and body slammed him to the ground so hard he suffered multiple broken bones and a traumatic brain injury when he tried to tell agents grabbing his workers they had papers. He also told them he&#8217;d just had heart surgery, but three guys jumped on his back anyway, with one pressing a knee into his neck and telling him, &#8220;You don\u2019t fuck with ICE.&#8221; He was handcuffed, detained, held 12 hours with no care, calls, food or water. Five of his <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/79-year-us-citizen-claim...\" target=\"_blank\"> workers <\/a>were also detained. <\/p>\n<p>There was also the ICE t<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZohranKMamdani\/status\/1971291604322582673\" target=\"_blank\">hug<\/a> at a New York courthouse who brutally<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/ice-throws-woman...\" target=\"_blank\"> threw down <\/a>Ecuadorian Monica Moreta-Galarza when she tried to stop agents from dragging her husband away from her and her two kids. The guy choked and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:f7utvjkqbgwfjonqtpfcf5fu\/post\/3m2kctlml522z?ref_src=embed&amp;ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fdigbysblog.net%252F\" target=\"_blank\">body-slammed <\/a>when he didn&#8217;t step back fast enough from a curb as ordered. The goons <a href=\"https:\/\/digbysblog.net\/2025\/10\/13\/what-does-cbp-te...\" target=\"_blank\">roughing up <\/a>bystanders filming, smashing car windows to drag a guy from his one-month-old, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/2025\/09\/26\/advocates-iowa-cit...\" target=\"_blank\">abducting <\/a>a 27-year-old Colombian during his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/2025\/09\/25\/escucha-mi-voz-claims-ice-takes-one-its-members\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/2025\/09\/25\/escucha-mi-voz-claims-ice-takes-one-its-members\/\">shift <\/a>at an Iowa City market though he was mid-asylum-process, he wore an ankle monitor for tracking, and he, his wife, their infant son lived at a Catholic Worker House. The 8 goons who <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoshEakle\/status\/1977076066666922409\" target=\"_blank\">yanked<\/a> a girl from her car as she screamed, &#8220;I&#8217;m 15.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>There were also the 30 storm-troopers in riot gear who<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wweek.com\/news\/2025\/10\/12\/documents-al...\" target=\"_blank\"> blocked<\/a> a Portland ambulance from leaving with an injured protester as they argued about one riding with them in the ambulance, which isn&#8217;t allowed; when the driver put the ambulance in park and it moved a few inches, one goon got in his face and screamed, &#8220;DON\u2019T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU.&#8221; And there was the sad, strange story of Dr. Ian Roberts, the Black, beloved, charismatic Des Moines school superintendent, &#8220;tremendous advocate,&#8221; &#8220;trusted partner (who) showed up in ways big and small for students&#8221; and former Olympic runner from Guyana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowapublicradio.org\/ipr-news\/2025-09-2...\" target=\"_blank\">arrested <\/a>by ICE for being just another &#8220;criminal illegal alien.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>At first, the community <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowapublicradio.org\/news-from-npr\/2024...\" target=\"_blank\">rallied<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/ian-roberts-des-moines-schools-superintendent-detained-by-ice\/68080086\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> around him, praising his &#8220;leadership, empathy and responsiveness,&#8221; fondly remembering his running against kids, usually in a dapper, three-piece suit, so they could<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowapublicradio.org\/news-from-npr\/2024...\" target=\"_blank\"> boast<\/a>, &#8220;I raced an Olympian.&#8221; &#8220;His contributions are immeasurable,&#8221; they said, &#8220;and we stand with him.&#8221; But soon a <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Arthur\/Latest-Updates-Case-Dr-Ian-...\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">labrythian history<\/a> emerged of weapons charges, dubious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/09\/26\/us\/ian-roberts-des-...\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">claims <\/a>of prestigious degrees, visas granted and denied. Officials faced questions about hiring practices, teachers and parents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/09\/27\/iowa-republican-lawmakers-probe-des-moines-public-schools-after-superintendents-arrest-by-ice\/86392069007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> struggled<\/a> to explain his absence to kids, especially Black ones,  and many wrestled with &#8220;a dark and unsettling time in our country.&#8221; For ICE, his arrest was a simple &#8220;wake-up call for communities to the great work our officers are doing (to) remove public safety threats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Olympic runner and school superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts races some of his kids. \" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"f03338b531b672901ea9ee7b86efc538\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"ef5e7\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/former-olympic-runner-and-school-superintendent-dr-ian-roberts-races-some-of-his-kids.jpg?id=61750076&amp;width=980\"> <small class=\"image-media media-caption\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Caption...\">Former Olympic runner and school superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts races some of his kids. <\/small><small class=\"image-media media-photo-credit\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Credit...\">Photo from Des Moines school system<\/small><\/p>\n<p>ICE&#8217;s &#8220;great work&#8221; was also evident last month as Rev. David Black of Chicago&#8217;s First Presbyterian Church stood in front of the Broadview detention facility, praying in his clerical collar, when heavily armed ICE agents on the roof <a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2025\/10\/07\/in-chicago-cle...\" target=\"_blank\">fired <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2025\/10\/07\/in-chicago-cle...\"><\/a>pepper balls that<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/mskellymhayes.bsky.social...\" target=\"_blank\"> struck<\/a> him in the head; as he hit the ground, he could hear them laughing. At another Broadview protest, Black along with many others was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPhBNLZDbYA\/?utm_sourc...\" target=\"_blank\">tased i<\/a>n the face, shoved to the ground and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/unraveledpress.com\/post\/3m2fui3tmp226\" target=\"_blank\">detained. <\/a>He is one of dozens of faith leaders who&#8217;ve been shot multiple times with pepper bullets from ICE &#8211; &#8220;They are unhinged,&#8221; says one Methodist &#8211; and have <a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2025\/07\/28\/fourth-group-of-religious-organizations-sues-trump-administration-over-ice-raids-at-churches\/\" target=\"_blank\">filed lawsuits<\/a> challenging ICE policies and their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/watch-ice-sued...\" target=\"_blank\">treatment<\/a> under the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act.<\/p>\n<p>Faith leaders and activists, while denouncing ICE actions as &#8220;domestic terror,&#8221; remain a visible presence at protests, often bearing signs that read, \u201cWho would Jesus deport?&#8221; and &#8220;Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job.&#8221; Black, too, keeps returning to &#8220;shout down these gates of hell&#8221;; above all, he praises &#8220;the unbelievably heroic people standing with me&#8230;proclaiming liberation in the face of evil itself.&#8221; By rote, even facing off against clergy, that evil is steadfast: DHS goon Tricia McLaughlin calls the protesters \u201crioters\u201d who assault agents, throw tear gas or rocks, and &#8220;endanger the safety of brave law enforcement officers and illegal aliens inside the facility.\u201d God save her soul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Black gets repeatedly tased in the face at Broadview detention facility.\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"02b50221529f0d0a9f6b7aafda1c514e\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"bcb12\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/david-black-gets-repeatedly-tased-in-the-face-at-broadview-detention-facility.jpg?id=61752643&amp;width=980\"> <small class=\"image-media media-caption\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Caption...\">David Black gets repeatedly tased in the face at Broadview detention facility.<\/small><small class=\"image-media media-photo-credit\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Credit...\">Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>The police state shows no more mercy to veterans, another group often turning up to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/13\/us...\" target=\"_blank\"> protest <\/a>the state of the country they risked their lives to defend, arguing &#8220;the basic freedoms we once swore to protect are under attack.&#8221; They range from the famed Subway sandwich hurler in D.C. to a disabled 87-year-old arrested after he and his walker traveled from an assisted living facility in Florida to protest Trump&#8217;s military parade in D.C. Veteran critics &#8211; most citizens, many brown &#8211; say they see &#8220;a pattern of state-sanctioned abuse&#8221; by ICE, along with ill-trained, reckless, &#8220;trigger-happy&#8221; agents who would be removed from a front line and court-martialed for their violence. So much for the highest male standard.<\/p>\n<p>Their victims include a 70-year-old Air Force veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndil\/pr\/five-individuals-charged-federal-court-chicago-assaulting-or-resisting-federal-agents\" target=\"_blank\">charged<\/a> with assault after he &#8220;made physical contact&#8221; with an agent&#8217;s arm at Broadview; a 35-year-old Marine vet and infantryman in Afghanistan shot with rubber bullets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DPEpsthDYC8\/?igsh=MTF1YmN6NGgxOHd6MQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">tackled<\/a> by thugs and arrested at Broadview; a Marine veteran who served in Afghanistan, protested in Portland, got his face <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koin.com\/news\/oregon\/video-shows-marine-veteran-tackled-at-portland-ice-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\">slammed<\/a> to the ground by <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social\/post\/3lwh667beac2p\" target=\"_blank\">goons <\/a>snarling, \u201cYou\u2019re not talking shit anymore, are you?&#8221; and is suing for $150,000 after being hospitalized. ICE said he &#8220;used fake blood to falsify injuries&#8221; and &#8220;perpetuated and encouraged violence.\u201d ICE should know. No wonder a new American hero on an e-bike was born after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/hey-m-not-u-ci...\" target=\"_blank\">taunted <\/a>ICE with, &#8220;Hey! I&#8217;m not a U.S. citizen!&#8221; before taking off. &#8220;Q: How many out-of-shape, masked ICE agents does it take to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/busblog\/status\/1972477771994808700\" target=\"_blank\">kidnap<\/a> a delivery driver on a bike in downtown Chicago? A: More than these.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube\"> <span class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"a039eeabb3aa19c9285ae37a78b9e794\" style=\"display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"auto\" lazy-loadable=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4AnLAxVtXKk?rel=0&amp;start=28\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/span> <small class=\"image-media media-caption\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Caption...\">&#8211; YouTube<\/small> <small class=\"image-media media-photo-credit\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Credit...\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4AnLAxVtXKk&amp;t=28s\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com<\/a> <\/small> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite court losses, public antipathy, ridicule, a shutdown they ignore, the nascent police state lurches on with its daft apocalyptic narrative of an America in flames. Their victims include brown parents torn from kids, a minister shot, an 87-year-old veteran tackled, a beloved Black school official. Each time, their allies plead for &#8220;radical empathy.&#8221; Each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}