{"id":566,"date":"2026-01-18T14:31:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/?p=566"},"modified":"2026-01-18T14:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:31:20","slug":"clearing-the-desktop-dept-american-gestapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/clearing-the-desktop-dept-american-gestapo\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing-The-Desktop Dept.: American Gestapo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Agents approach a car at a gas station, seeking out the immigration status of the driver and demand he open the door.<\/div>\n
\u201cLet me see your warrant! If you don\u2019t have a warrant, get the fuck away from my car.\u201d<\/div>\n
When he doesn\u2019t, they break the window of the car and remove him, while a Border Patrol official yells at bystanders to back up. [False-arrest suit for damages are in these agents\u2019 future]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cFederal agents with assault rifles and combat gear are patrolling the streets in convoys. At night, they shine lights from their vehicles onto pedestrians. This is a military occupation, and it feels like a military occupation.\u201d [It\u2019s a duck, just like the ducks in Central and South America.]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cFederal agents scream obscenities at residents and repeatedly holster and unholster their weapons. It\u2019s like living in a war zone. The federal presence is not ubiquitous, concentrated in areas with large immigrant populations, but absent in others.\u201d [In other countries, they call this the start of a pogrom.]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cTHE DAY OF RECKONING AND RETRIBUTION is coming for Minnesota. Federal agents are in Minnesota to remove convicted murderers, drug dealers and addicts, rapists, violent released and escaped prisoners, dangerous people from foreign mental institutions and insane asylums, and other deadly criminals.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cFor the most part, federal agents do not have not have warrants and are staging in the parking lots of stores and apartment complexes and targeting people of color, asking for proof of citizenship. Nothing about that is making our communities safer. We have many people in our community that are undocumented, but they are valued members of our community.\u201d [And have every human right to live and work and thrive in those communities for as long as they choose, without fear they will be falsely accused and arrested by political goons.]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cProtesters could go too far. Residents said they were worried that with the number of agents patrolling the area and heightened tensions, weapons would be fired, deliberately or by accident. It\u2019s just a matter of time before something else occurs. Another person shot. ICE agents injured.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[Jobert to Turner (Three Days of the Condor) 1975:<\/span> “You have not much future there. It will happen this way. You may be walking. Maybe the first sunny day of the spring. And a car will slow beside you, and a door will open, and someone you know, maybe even trust, will get out of the car. And he will smile, a becoming smile. But he will leave open the door of the car and offer to give you a lift.” (a small calibre automatic pistol is proffered) For that day.\u201d]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Agents approach a car at a gas station, seeking out the immigration status of the driver and demand he open the door. \u201cLet me see your warrant! If you don\u2019t have a warrant, get the fuck away from my car.\u201d When he doesn\u2019t, they break the window of the car and remove him, while…<\/p>\n

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