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The rage I've felt following the murder of Renee Good has stirred up many memories. Especially, my first confirmed kill in Vietnam. I fired, at point blank range, at a pregnant woman who was running by in fear. She wasn't armed and truly represented no threat. But we had been told to "go in hot". That meant we were authorized to shoot anyone in the village b/c they supported our enemy. The memory will haunt me until I close my eyes for the last time. I've wanted to join the protest in my area. Unfortunately, I believe I'll try to kill any ICE agent who lays hands on me. That's what I was trained to do by the US Army. Maybe in a few more days, the rage will lessen, and I can attend a protest safely. RESIST!
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Writer Adam-Troy Castro wrote:
Even at a remove, I don't want to step on the grief of Renee Good's father.
He is a grieving parent, who incidentally happens to be a Trump supporter.
And since the senseless killing of his daughter, he asked a reasonable question where it could be heard, and taken down. Why are they lying about my daughter? Why are they saying things about her that I know not to be true?
And this question was relayed to Trump, during televised questions, and Trump merely repeated that she was an agitator, that she escalated a confrontation, that she attacked the ICE guy and tried to run him over. All lies.
Renee Good's Dad, a man for whom I have no end of sympathy, seems to me to be a tragic figure in the Shakespearean sense. He is probably just baffled and hurt, at this response from a man he believed in, and probably still follows. Still.
What I want for him, what I want for all the Trumpers who simply had a political position and stood by their man, is that a very reasonable series of questions penetrate.
This man who lies about Renee Good, what else has he lied about?
It probably isn't just her, right?
This woman who got in the way and was killed, is she the only one?
What about all the other people, hundreds and thousands of them, who Trump demonizes, the cities where he has sent his thugs, the innocents who has had tossed into vans, the masked bullies he has roaming the streets and brutalizing teenagers and women and pillars of the community?
Is it possible, just possible, sir, that he's lying about them?
That he's lying as easily as he breathes?
That he and his collaborators have fed you nonsense assumptions that have enabled his savagery, and made you part of them?
Will you just swallow your hurt and rationalize that he's wrong about your daughter, but right about everyone else he's hurt? Or will you realize who the problem is?
Have you learned, sir?
The rage I've felt following the murder of Renee Good has stirred up many memories. Especially, my first confirmed kill in Vietnam. I fired, at point blank range, at a pregnant woman who was running by in fear. She wasn't armed and truly represented no threat. But we had been told to "go in hot". That meant we were authorized to shoot anyone in the village b/c they supported our enemy. The memory will haunt me until I close my eyes for the last time. I've wanted to join the protest in my area. Unfortunately, I believe I'll try to kill any ICE agent who lays hands on me. That's what I was trained to do by the US Army. Maybe in a few more days, the rage will lessen, and I can attend a protest safely. RESIST!
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Writer Adam-Troy Castro wrote:
Even at a remove, I don't want to step on the grief of Renee Good's father.
He is a grieving parent, who incidentally happens to be a Trump supporter.
And since the senseless killing of his daughter, he asked a reasonable question where it could be heard, and taken down. Why are they lying about my daughter? Why are they saying things about her that I know not to be true?
And this question was relayed to Trump, during televised questions, and Trump merely repeated that she was an agitator, that she escalated a confrontation, that she attacked the ICE guy and tried to run him over. All lies.
Renee Good's Dad, a man for whom I have no end of sympathy, seems to me to be a tragic figure in the Shakespearean sense. He is probably just baffled and hurt, at this response from a man he believed in, and probably still follows. Still.
What I want for him, what I want for all the Trumpers who simply had a political position and stood by their man, is that a very reasonable series of questions penetrate.
This man who lies about Renee Good, what else has he lied about?
It probably isn't just her, right?
This woman who got in the way and was killed, is she the only one?
What about all the other people, hundreds and thousands of them, who Trump demonizes, the cities where he has sent his thugs, the innocents who has had tossed into vans, the masked bullies he has roaming the streets and brutalizing teenagers and women and pillars of the community?
Is it possible, just possible, sir, that he's lying about them?
That he's lying as easily as he breathes?
That he and his collaborators have fed you nonsense assumptions that have enabled his savagery, and made you part of them?
Will you just swallow your hurt and rationalize that he's wrong about your daughter, but right about everyone else he's hurt? Or will you realize who the problem is?
Have you learned, sir?
