Cold Blood: A New Reichstag Plot Begins With Murder
Minneapolis is the target of a blatant effort to incite a new wave of domestic oppression.
Donald Trump and his allies have launched another poorly concealed attempt to deliberately provoke violence in American cities—to create an excuse for federal and military occupation. Here is the rough plan the regime appears to be executing:
Target Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered—in a vulnerable blue state governed by former Trump opponent Tim Walz.
Have Elon Musk and the right wing echo-chamber continuously promote racist propaganda to scapegoat Somalis and raise the temperature in Minnesota.
Send Kristi Noem and thousands of paramilitary federal agents into Minneapolis to cause chaos.
Wait for the inevitable violence to happen. Blame it on violence against ICE.
When protests break out, use them as an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act and bring in the military.
When reaction spreads across America, impose martial law (or the functional equivalent.)
Use “domestic unrest” and foreign wars as an excuse to cancel or interfere with elections.
Whether or not it can be established that this was the plan from the beginning, or a more opportunistic series of events, this is the timeline we’re being railroaded onto right now. We are past step 4, and the trajectory is obvious.
A 37-year-old legal observer of ICE was murdered in Minneapolis by a federal agent in her car Wednesday morning as she tried to leave the scene of a minor interaction. She was warning people that ICE was coming to their neighborhoods—a constitutionally protected right. Federal agents approached her car and illegally tried to enter the vehicle. When she tried to drive away, one of the agents shot her in the face.
[Warning: This is disturbing. Not recommended if sensitive.]
Within minutes, the Trump regime was tweeting and making TV appearances blaming the death of this American citizen on her free speech activities. They claim she was “weaponizing” her vehicle, and tried to “run over” law enforcement. Trump, as he usually does, extended this lie into new territory by falsely claiming the officer was “violently, willfully, and viciously run over” and was “in the hospital.”
None of that is true. The officer casually walked over to the car after the shooting, did nothing to help the dying woman, and left the scene of the crime two minutes later. To make things worse, a doctor who tried to provide medical assistance had guns pointed at him and was warned not to help.
The victim, Renée Good, was picked up by an ambulance at least 15 minutes after she was shot, too late to be saved.
This was the result of what the Department of Homeland Security bragged was “our largest immigration effort ever”—over 2,000 federal agents sent into Minneapolis on Tuesday, January 6th. This was the largest deployment of federal agents to a city in American history—larger than the response to Katrina.
The operation is a deliberate provocation, designed to hit a vulnerable target—a population already sensitized to state violence because of George Floyd, and under heavy attack by propaganda through Musk. They wanted a reaction from the population—and got it.
The mayor, Jacob Frey, who told ICE to “Get the fuck out of our city” has called for peaceful demonstrations—but ICE has already started responding brutally.
None of this can be seen as surprising. ICE, and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) were granted a $200 billion budget increase in the “Big Beautiful Bill,” with a goal of hiring over 10,000 new federal paramilitary agents—and adding 100,000 to the population of concentration camps.
This regime has been planning for not just “mass deportations” but mass occupation since before it started. This strategy is written down in Project 2025 and we’ve been watching it unfold all year.
But it seems clear that Trump and his allies are in a hurry to find a flashpoint right now, some kind of definitive excuse for escalating its attack on American citizens through military action. They’re engaging in the domestic analogue of attacking “drug boats” before kidnapping the president of Venezuela. It’s a deliberate provocation against a population to justify oppression—in America.
This regime is not just rhyming with the Third Reich; it’s trying as hard as possible to plagiarize it. Everything has been foreseeable, because none of it is original.
Renée Good described herself as “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.” She was the mother of a now orphaned 6-year-old child. She was trying to do the right thing for her fellow humans and became a martyr.
She was America—shot in broad daylight for exercising her rights.
This is not a drill. This is war.
RIP Renée. RIP America.
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We have reached the inflection point. You need to make your decision. Are you content being subjugated and abused? Will you cower in fear and hope you go unnoticed, as the bulldozer of oppression reduces cities, citizens and the constitution to rubble?
Or will you make a stand to preserve liberty for your families and future generations? There is no more time to sit and hope the calvary is coming to your rescue. The calvary has been corrupted. The only hero that can save America is YOU.
As tempting as it is to take up arms and bravely battle this criminal regime in retaliation, that premature reaction is exactly what Trump and his cult are hoping for. At this point, reacting violently will provide the oppressors to declare martial law and suspend future elections.
We may very well get to the point where armed resistance is our last possible defence, but first, before a civil war becomes unavoidable, citizens must unite in protest and hold a nationwide prolonged strike. There needs to be one unified non-negotiable demand. The current criminal regime must be removed from power. If successful, there will be numerous changes to the corrupt system that need to be implemented, but for starters, Trump and his cronies need to stopped cold.
Anyone paying attention to the daily mayhem and chaotic destruction of lives and liberties in America needs to stop fantasizing about a midterm election correction.
Where is Tim Walz, where is the mayor Minneapolis? Why aren't they arresting people who break the law,by kidnapping and murdering their citizens?
The question was rhetorical in this quasi dictatorship, it is perfectly legal to harass, harm and kill people if you have a a uniform.
ICE agents do not have license to kill people, regardless of the b.s. spouted by Noem.
They should have been arrested for murder.
But, unfortunately we have spineless public officials, .