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A Young Mother Murdered
and Nothing But Lies

Americans don't know enough to recognize that this is fascism.

If it wasn’t apparent already after the killing of the two ship[wrecked survivors in the Caribbean, it is clear now that we have a government bankrupt of morality and incapable of decency. The deliberate killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good article illustration
Renee Nicole Good


has left three children without their mother, yet the president, the vice-president and the head of national security immediately constructed an artifice of lies in the hope of making her deserving of her fate and absolving the ICE killer. Knowing that their false version would not stand up, they then shut out any Minneapolis or Minnesota investigation by denying them access to evidence. The administration’s duplicity demands that we adopt their version of what happened – the opposite of what we have all seen in the video.

Here’s what they said – more complete than you’ve seen and read in the regular media, which tends to extract sound bites, so that you can realize the breadth of the lying.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem began the process, rushing to cameras in her cowgirl costume to hurriedly fabricate an account intended to preempt truth:

“Our ICE officers were out in an enforcement action. They got stuck in the snow because of the adverse weather that is in Minneapolis. They were attempting to push out her vehicle, and a woman attacked them and those surrounding them.”

It was all lies. The vehicle was not stuck. The road was clear. No one was pushing any vehicle. The woman never left her SUV. trump

The President inserted himself into what needed to be an impartial appraisal of what happened with still more falsehoods. It is entirely improper to pass judgment from any perch, much less the presidency, before there has been careful analysis of an incident, but Trump was again reliably irresponsible.

He posted the accompanying tweet.

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The horrified woman screaming, “What have you done? What have you done?”, he wants to paint as a “professional agitator”. He then showed why there is so much talk of his ageing, delusionally creating his own reality claiming the woman “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer”. Nothing of the sort happened. Does he not realize we can see? “It is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital.”

After firing three shots to effect the cold-blooded murder, the ICE agent, identified as Jonathan Ross, walks briskly to where the SUV has crashed into another car, then walks equally rapidly back. As the woman who shouts "What have you done?" says "Shame!", "Shame", we hear him greet each with "Ha", "Ha". He shows no injury in the slightest. It’s fair to say that he was ordered to go to hospital in order for Noem to make the fake claim of injury so they could invent self-defense.

And Trump? That wasn’t just momentary brain fog. Subsequently interviewed by The New York Times he said,

“She behaved horribly. And then she ran him over. She didn’t try to run him over. She ran him over.”

Noem, five hours later

Having flown to Minneapolis that same afternoon and now in her baseball cap with a Homeland Security badge, she repeated her claims of the auto stuck in the snow, ICE agents pushing it out, and a “mob of agitators” blocking them when the video shows just a few people in a residential neighborhood. She continued:

”ICE officers and agents approached the vehicle of the individual in question who was blocking the officers in with her vehicle and she had been stalking and impeding their work all throughout the day. ICE agents repeatedly ordered her to get out of the car and to stop obstructing law enforcement, but she refused to obey their commands. She then proceeded to weaponize her vehicle and she attempted to run a law enforcement officer over. This appears as an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents, an act of domestic terrorism. The ICE officer, fearing for his life, and the other officers around him and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots. He used his training to save his own life and that of his colleagues.

She wasn’t there. There is no evidence in the video of Renee Good “stalking and impeding their work all throughout the day” so if she hasn’t simply made it up, she is recklessly repeating what self-interested ICE agents on scene have told her as if this is verified proof. She has Renee Good attempting to run over the shooter, which is not what we see in the video. Good waves for the ICE vehicle to go around her, article illustration



as the car before has just done, then starts to leave, first backing up a few feet to re-orient the car’s direction, then slowly moving forward, turning toward the right when the shooter, not in the car’s path, opens fire. Noem says it “appears as an attempt to kill…an act of domestic terrorism” by the driver, which should register as just how big a lie this government will resort to against the public it is meant to serve. In total refutation and most most wrenching to hear, in the instant before she is about to die she says to the agent about to pull her door open, we hear her say "That's fine, dude, I'm not mad at you".

Having twisted events into a full inversion of true to false, Noem tries to make it self-defense, and that firing shots in a residential street is for “the safety” of that public.

Noem then asks us to pray for him and “the deceased family and her loved ones” and shifts to death threats against ICE agents and attempts around the nation to use vehicles to “ram” them that have “got to stop” in a statement that became a political speech against President Biden allowing terrorists to enter the country, against Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor James Frey, and the state’s Medicare fraud.

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Like the president, Vice-President Vance sought to contaminate any measured review of what occurred so as to get the administration’s official distortion out in front. He objects to a perfectly factual CNN headline – “Outrage After ICE Officer Kills U.S. Citizen in Minneapolis”- as an example of how the “corporate media have put this attack" because…

”This was an attack on federal law enforcement, this was an attack on law and order, this was an attack on the American people.”

Reporting it as anything else, “puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day".

”What that headline leaves out is the fact that that very ICE officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago, thirty-three stitches in his leg, so you think maybe he’s a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile?”

What Vance leaves out is that that officer might have better been assigned to a form of duty not involving motorists. Vance implies that because the officer underwent that trauma it’s understandable and even justifiable that he should murder a driver as revenge, even someone who had nothing to do with that incident, and a Christian member of his preferred religion who participated in mission trips, was a poet who loved to sing, was a loving mother according to friends.

”What that headline leaves out is that that woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation in the United States of America. What that headline leaves out is that that woman is part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to doxx, to assault, and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job. If the media wants to tell the truth they ought to tell the truth, that a group of left-wing radicals have been working tirelessly, sometimes using domestic terror techniques to try to make it impossible for the President of the United States to do what the American people elected him to do, which is enforce our immigration laws. The President stands with ICE, I stand with ICE, we stand with all of our law enforcement officers...She was trying to ram this guy with her car. He shot back. He defended himself.”

Once again a claim that runs counter to the video. When the SUV moves forward, it is moving slowly until Renee Good is shot. It speeds up because she is shot. In a video filmed from behind the car that is turning away from him, we see the shooter clear of its path and firing at her.

Vance exhibits a manic, paranoid view that protesters are “left-wing radicals”, part of a “broader left-wing network…sometimes using domestic terror techniques”. He is willfully blind to the rising anger of Americans at the often brutal tactics of masked and unidentified ICE agents grabbing people off the street in their zeal to meet Stephen Miller’s 3,000 a day quota, pulling them from their houses, many of them American citizens, others undocumented immigrant families here for decades leading useful lives. Willfully blind, or does he think that is what America should be.

It seems he had not watched the video until later, backing off his remarks but only slightly.

”What I am certain of is that she violated the law. What I am certain of is that that officer had every reason to think that he was under very serious threat for injury or in fact his life. What I am certain of is that she accelerated in a way where she ran into the guy. I don’t know what was in her heart or what was in her head but I know that she violated the law and I know that officer was acting in self-defense.”

Again, the video shows how exaggerated are his “certainties”. Again, she accelerated after she was shot. And again, Ross shoes no sign of his having been hit.

“Look, if people want to say that we should have a legitimate debate about, you know, what she was really doing, right, was she panicking when she drove into this officer or was she actually trying to ram him, that’s a – that’s a reasonable conversation, or was she actually trying to ram him? ...I can believe that her death is a tragedy while also recognizing that it’s a tragedy of her own making and a tragedy of the far left, who has marshaled an entire movement, a lunatic fringe against our law enforcement officers.”

A tragedy of her own making. That's what JD Vance thinks. Just what was it she did that deserved her death? And he is the widely leading favorite to be the Republican candidate for the presidency in 2028.

Vance would further say that Jonathan Ross “deserves a debt of gratitude” and that “nobody debates” that Good aimed her car at an officer”, that she must have been “brainwashed” or “radicalized to put herself in that situation”, that “the reason this woman is dead is because she tried to ram somebody with her car and that guy acted in self-defense.”

Find any of that in the video?

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This is our government now, a government in which the state is all, everything for the state, each day furthering the new fascist America, for that is fascism’s definition. Trump’s America sees as its right the freedom to kill at will and with no less than the president, the vice-president, and the head of national security shutting down objections. We are expected to concede to the government's official version with no tolerance for dissent. Indeed, we may see dissent prosecuted as is happening with the free speech admonitions by six members of Congress against obeying illegal military orders. If Minnesota attempts an investigation, its U.S. attorney can exercise supremacy to bring the case up to federal court, there to exercise the freedom to dismiss and snuff the case. Vance says Ross has "absolute immunity", almost true legally but surely true in reality. There will be no federal investigation. What Trump, Vance, and Noem have said is meant to be conclusive. Case closed. The Department of Justice under Pamela Bondi and the FBI she controls will certainly not pursue justice. Murder by the federal police is legitimate in the name of the fascist state.

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