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Federal immigration agents killed another 37 year old, an American citizen in Minneapolis, Alex Preddy. And I am going to explain why. The Trump administration is doing exactly what you would expect if you wanted to generate more authoritarian escalation. We're going to break down the insane contradiction where MAGA tells people, arm yourselves against tyranny and then cheers when the government kills a legally armed citizen. Cash Patel goes viral, humiliating himself on gun laws, exposing how little these people understand or care about the Constitution they claim to worship. And then we will look at the latest truth. Social meltdowns. And the black rotting hand is raising real questions about transparency and, and presidential health. And the Minneapolis police chief has had enough of ICE and says it's time for them to go get them out. They're not doing law enforcement, not at all. All of that. Today. They are going to start killing ICE agents. I don't like it, but ICE agents are going to start getting killed. And unfortunately, this is something that Donald Trump will use to his advantage. Let me explain and give me time to lay this out first, to just be clear up front before anybody mischaracterizes what I'm saying here. I oppose all violence. Violence against civilians is wrong. Violence against federal agents is wrong. What the Trump administration is doing right now is a blueprint for escalation. Now, we've already crossed the line into something very dangerous. Let's talk about Alex Preddy. Alex Preddy was a 37 year old ICU nurse, an American citizen, no criminal record, had some traffic tickets. He was filming federal agents in Minneapolis over the weekend. He tried to help a woman who had just been shoved to the ground. Video shows him holding a phone. He gets pepper sprayed. He gets tackled by by multiple agents and pinned to the sidewalk. Another agent pulls a gun from his waistband, turns away, and less than a second later, the shots start. Maybe as many as 10 shots in five seconds and Alex is dead. Federal officials, Federal officials immediately say he was a violent threat. They start bandying around that he's a domestic terrorist, but the videos don't show that. Witnesses don't say that. State officials say the feds even have blocked access to the crime scene. So this is not law and order. This is a, we can't even call it law enforcement. They're not in for ice, is not enforcing the law. This is a federal paramilitary force operating with near total impunity. And the part that a lot of people don't want to say out loud because if you say it the wrong way, it sounds like you're advocating violence. Which of course I'm not, is that when the state starts killing people in the streets with no consequences, it's inevitable that there's going to be escalation. Not because violence is justified, it's not. But because human behavior is predictable. You teach a society that violence is the language through your actions, someone eventually is going to respond in that language. And if this continues, the retaliation against agents is going to happen and one or more agents is going to be killed. Not because it's right, not because that's how we fix things. We won't, and I'll get to that in a moment, but because this is how systems break. Now, the darker part is the following. Authoritarians want escalation. Chaos is useful to them. Chaos lets them say, we need more force, we need troops, we need emergency powers, we need to suspend normal rules. Maybe elections are too dangerous, maybe the country is too unstable to vote in November and take Republicans out of power in the House of Representatives. Wouldn't that be nice for Donald Trump? So let's get something very straight. I want to speak as clearly as possible. They are going to end up in a situation where the very chaos they cause is used to justify a bigger crackdown. Now, on the threats around the election, it might sound quaint to mention this, but presidents do not run elections in the United States. States run elections, local officials run elections. So even if he tries, because he's already said, wouldn't it be nice to, you know, use that justification? We're, we're at war, we are in an emergency. We can't have an election. Trump has flirted with that. He, he cannot wave a pen and end the 2026 election even if there is a war going on, if there's a pandemic, if there is unrest, Trump's term, term will end January 20, 2029, no matter what. But Trump can try to make the country feel ungovernable, I guess is the word I would use, and he can provoke unrest. And then if and when the ICE agents start getting killed, he goes, oh, now it's so crazy. And we now need martial law. We now need to deploy the military. We now need to suspend the 2026 election. We've got to flood every city with federal agents and escalate, escalate, escalate until people are so afraid that maybe they accept the authoritarianism. So this is the double edged sword, which is that the impunity that we see these ICE agents operating with leads to chaos. The chaos will lead to ICE agents getting killed, and then that will become the justification to say, now we've really got to repress protests and civil society. The repression will create more chaos. And this is the authoritarian feedback loop that I've described to you before that people like Anne Applebaum and Ruth Ben Guy have talked to us about. So it has to stop. And I don't say it has to stop because of the optics, although the optics are. You look, you should see the emails I'm getting from people around the world. David, what is happening to the United States? We look on in horror. This is, this is becoming a developing nation, to use Trump's term. It's a third world country over there where you've got lawless militias killing people on the streets and then they just fly them out and there's no investigation. This is how democracies slide into police states, into security states. One emergency at a time. Ordinary people get crushed in the middle and understand that. I don't claim Trump is sitting at the White House going, I want ICE agents to be killed. Kill ICE agents. I don't believe that that's what's going on. But Trump wants chaos to justify a bigger crackdown. And there would be no better justification, no more chaotic occurrence than ICE agents getting killed. And unfortunately, the longer this goes on, the more inevitable that seems. All right, let's talk about the guns. MAGA tells people, you need guns, you got to have them. If the government becomes tyrannical, you would have no tool to defend yourself if you don't have a gun. More guns, the better because of the tyrannical government. That's the pitch, that's the fantasy, that's the moral framework that they have been selling as Maga for 11 years and as Republicans for decades at this point in time. So what happens when someone takes that seriously? A white American man, 37 year old, Alex Preddy, no criminal record, legally carrying a gun out there, hoping to defend civilians against federal agents he believes are acting tyrannically. The government shot him dead. That is what happened this weekend. 37 year old ICU nurse Alex Preddy worked with veterans, legally owned a firearm. White guy with gun should be MAGA and NRA's dream. Federal immigration agents were conducting these aggressive operations in Minneapolis. Freddie showed up, he's filming, he's trying to help a woman that agents had pushed to the ground. He gets pepper sprayed, he gets tackled and he gets shot multiple times around 10 shots in a few seconds. It is believed. The official story is he approached with a gun, he was brandishing a loaded firearm. But now as we have bystander testimony and video. It seems he was holding a phone, that agents had removed the gun. It may not have been loaded. There's controversy around that detail. I don't. I can't say I know for certain at this point in time. And then after disarming him, he is shot and killed. So connect the dots. Gun activists say you need guns to resist tyranny. A citizen confronts what he believes is tyrannical state power, and the state goes, you've got a gun now you die. And that is the end of the story. This is the part where the fantasy collapses, because when it's their government, suddenly the guy with the gun is a domestic threat. When Obama's president, oh, everybody must be armed. When Biden's president, everybody must be armed. But suddenly, this time, someone is legally carrying a gun, and the agents are heroes. Suddenly, the Second Amendment is conditional. And the people who talk about resisting tyranny are the first to cheer. When the state kills somebody for exercising the right that they said you should really exercise this right, you might say, well, this is a bug in the system. Wrong. Wrong. The core contradiction and reality of the situation is that they only care about those principles when they are convenient to them. Now, let me zoom out just a little bit here. I don't believe we should turn the Alex Preddy assassination into a story that is primarily about guns are the problem. I think that that actually plays into Donald Trump's hands. It lets Trump pivot to culture war noise and avoid the real issue. I'm mentioning it because it is an incredible hypocrisy. And later, we'll look at video of Cash Patel sort of participating in that hypocrisy. But this ties directly into Trump and the ICE deployments. This is what happens when you normalize mass militarized immigration enforcement as political spectacle. And so I don't want to make this mostly about the guns, but there is this incredible double standard about the guns. The main focus here really is you put heavily armed federal agents into civilian spaces, you tell them they're fighting an enemy from within, and you blur the line between what is policing and what is a paramilitary operation. And this is why I don't believe we should use the term law enforcement for what ICE is doing anymore, because they're not really enforcing the law, certainly not the law that they were created to enforce. And then when a citizen shows up, angry, legally armed, wanting to help people and intervene, it escalates instantly into lethal force. So. So the problem isn't really one shooting the problem isn't really the gun issue and that Alex Preddy was legally armed. The issue is the broader policy choice to turn supposed immigration enforcement into just a show of force against even American citizens, where misunderstandings instantly become fatalities and there is no accountability because officer safety and immunity and domestic terrorists and all of this stuff. So the real story here is not guns, it's power. The state labels as a threat with significant power anyone that they find politically inconvenient and political movements quickly abandoned their principles when those principles become inconvenient, Something I've talked about with you for a long time and wrote about in my book the Echo Machine. The fantasy of the white legally armed guy as the hero has now become the white legally armed guy is dead. And we are going to delve into this significantly because it is hard to imagine a more tragic outcome than what we are seeing every single day. Send me your thoughts. Leave a comment Email me info@david pakman.com all right, I'll be honest. 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Every murderer must be held accountable. Every person killed is a victim of senseless violence. But I am going to argue something that a lot of people are going to be uncomfortable with. The murder of Alex Preddy by federal immigration agents is far more disturbing societally than the murder of Charlie Kirk. Both are disturbing. Both are disturbing. But let me explain why. This is the conclusion I've come to. Charlie Kirk was a media figure, a political actor. He was killed by an individual. Everyone agrees the individual broke the law. And Tyler Robinson is going to trial. If he's convicted, he'll almost certainly spend the rest of his life in prison, possibly facing the death penalty. It is a tragedy about a radicalized person committing an act of violence and now will be held accountable by the justice system. Now look at what happened with Alex Preddy and arguably with Renee Goode before him. This is not about a rogue individual. This is a system. And this is the second, third time that this has happened. It is. They had an opportunity to change the playbook and instead they double down after the killing of Renee Goode. Now, you know, we've seen these official narratives. The mother with toys in the glove compartment of her car and an ICU nurse are domestic terrorists. Case closed before the blood even dried. No real investigation into use of force by ICE agents. No accountability. Just the story repeated loudly that it becomes the reality for a bunch of the country. You have federal agents killing peaceful protesters and you have right wing media immediately demonizing the victim, not the perpetrator. You have disputed claims contradicted by witnesses and video. You have people who pulled the trigger seemingly facing no consequences, reassignment to another state. In the case of those who killed Alex Preddy, maybe an investigation that we've. We've investigated ourselves and we've found that we didn't do anything wrong, that sort of thing. After Charlie Kirk's death, people like me, who condemned the killing but disagreed with Charlie Kirk politically. We were asked over and over, but, David, do you condemn the murder of Charlie Kirk? But do you really condemn it? And I did. Of Course I did. But where are all of the Magaz condemning this? Where are the endless demands that conservatives condemn federal agents killing civilians? They're not there. And the reason why is that it worked the first time. These are demonstrations of power to admit any fault, wrongdoing or doubt about what ICE agents did, or to suggest maybe there's going to be accountability here. That would imply that they don't dictate reality. And the whole point is to dictate reality and break the will of the public, teach people resistance is futile, and simply rewrite events in real time. When an individual commits political violence, the system condemns it and punishes it. That's what's happening now to Tyler Robinson. When the state commits violence and it's not one shooter whose identity we know, but a bunch who are operating with masks all of a sudden, they protect the system, they excuse the system. There are people cheering the system. That's what makes the killing of Alex Preddy so much more disturbing. Because it's not just a crime. Obviously, what Tyler Robinson did is a crime, and he's going to be held accountable for it, as he should be. We are seeing institutional violence and it's being completely normalized. Going to have clips for you. Well, you know, he shouldn't have been there in the first place. He shouldn't have had a gun. Wait a second. Being there in the first place, that's the First Amendment. Having a gun. That's the Second Amendment. That's that, though. That's the approach that you're taking now, you constitutional conservative conservatives. So we have a normalization of institutional violence and then lies about what happened being enforced as the truth. Everybody should be terrified. My Libertarian friends, my right wing friends, my Republican friends, everybody should be saying this is unacceptable. But unfortunately, that is not really what I'm hearing from a lot of these folks. So this is not. Do not interpret this as any kind of defense or mitigation of the murder of Charlie Kirk. I am as vehemently condemning the murder of Charlie Kirk today as I did before. But from a systemic perspective, from a what does it say about our country perspective, it's bad enough that we have a political environment that radicalizes individuals like Tyler Robinson to go out and do what he did. That's terrible. But at least we have a system that will still hold them accountable with what's happening in Minneapolis, the system is. Is what is committing the acts. Never hold accountable. Not only are they not holding accountable, they're the ones perpetrating these acts. It's feeling like A very dark moment for the country. And it's really important to hold them to the claims they've made and hold them to the standards they claim to want to be held by. And that's why we're going to talk about Kash Patel next. FBI Director Cash Patel is going giga viral because of unearth unearthed comments he made about Kyle Rittenhouse years ago now compared to the comments he has made about the killing of Alex Preddy by ICE agents. Now, let me just remind you, Kyle Rittenhouse was this young guy who decided to go to a protest armed in order to help defend people. Interesting. Well, let's start with Cash Patel yesterday speaking to Maria Bartiromo on Fox News. And Cash Patel says what happened to Alex Pretty Pretty was justified because he brought a loaded firearm. He brought a loaded, loaded firearm. You don't get the right to break the law. Well, what law was broken when Preddy was legally carrying the gun? We'll get to that. Here is Cash Patel. I mean, thousands of people are marching through Minneapolis. They are targeting the Border Patrol. I mean, it feels like the rhetoric and the, the protesting is only ramping up. What is your advice to the people right now who are outraged that this is a second killing at the hands of Border Patrol in two weeks? As Christy said, you cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have that right to break the law and incite violence. We, we will, of course, always protect your First Amendment speech. And if you peacefully protest, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. But you have seen a trend here, not just in Minnesota, but across the country, in these protests turning into violent scenarios. And people. Wait a second, Cash. Wait, wait, wait, wait. You can't show up with a loaded gun. You don't have a right to break the law. I am all for gun safety regulations. You all know that. We don't have enough of them, and we don't enforce the ones we have. But I'm also for. Let's understand the law. Under the Second Amendment and Minnesota Statute 6.24.714, you are allowed to legally carry firearms in public, including during protests. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that public carry is a constitutional right. Having a gun does not constitute inciting violence. Now, many of us have been saying for a long time, when these amosexuals whose firearm size is inversely proportional to the size of their right, you know what I'm talking about. Also, the. Wow, that's a big Lifted truck. Sir, you must have a massive. We have said they seem to be just trying to rile people up, but that doesn't make it illegal. Socially, we understand when these guys with the huge trucks and huge guns and tiny show up that they are trying to get a reaction, they are trying to incite and it's still legal. Alex Preddy did not draw his firearm. By all reports. It was taken off of his waistband or some kind of holster. He had a phone in his hand. And even if he had the gun as he did, the law doesn't say that that's illegal because it's legal. Now, by the way, what did Cash Patel say when he was speaking about Kyle Rittenhouse? He did this on the genocidal anti vaxxer Stu Peters show. Who, by the way, the guy that Cash is being interviewed in this clip I'm going to play and someone that Cash said he didn't know during his confirmation hearing. Here he is on his show and here is Cash Patel saying that Kyle Rittenhouse deserves due process and all of this stuff. Take a listen. Where is that due process standing? Cause of the left. Now, in the Rittenhouse cases you just outlined, the left wants to be hypocrites. They can be hypocrites because they write their own narratives, fictional, defame people along the way, and know they can get the media to print their garbage, their fake news garbage, and wreck people's lives. Kyle Rittenhouse, his life was wrecked by some who jumped the gun and said, I think he's guilty before there had been a verdict. And Cash was furious. He was there legally carrying a gun. But when it comes to Alex Preddy, it's he was there carrying a gun. You can't do that. Therefore, his killing is justified. Remember, their principles mean nothing. They mean nothing. They abandon them as soon as they become inconvenient. Couple bonus clips on this. Here is Scott Besant also asked about this. And he also throws in inaccurate statements about the gun element and also statements not based in what the law is. Before you go, I know this is not your lane, but I got to ask you about what's happened in Minneapolis. As a member of the of the Trump Cabinet, are you concerned to see another American citizen ends up dead, shot by federal law enforcement?