They Have A List

 

Speaking out against the Malignant Fascist's and Stephen Miller's goon squad gets some elected officials on The List:

The White House released a list of nearly 30 elected officials -- all of them Democrats -- who the Trump administration said incited violence against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents throughout the U.S.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker were at the top of the list, which was published just days after a suspect opened fire on an ICE facility in Texas. [snip]

The White House named the following elected officials on the list, as well as quoted each of them:

• Gov. Tim Walz smeared ICE as the “modern-day Gestapo.”
• Gov. Gavin Newsom likened ICE to “secret police,” calling them “authoritarian” and proclaiming a “right to push back.”
• Gov. JB Pritzker claimed the country is becoming “Nazi Germany” because ICE is “grabbing people off the street and disappearing them.”
• Rep. Robin Kelly smeared ICE as the “Gestapo” and a “betrayal.”
• Rep. Jasmine Crockett compared ICE to “slave patrols.”
• Rep. Sylvia Garcia referred to ICE agents as “thugs.”
• Rep. Delia Ramirez attacked ICE as “a terror force.”
• Rep. Pramila Jayapal called ICE agents “deranged,” accused them of “kidnapping,” and said “resistance” to ICE is “inspiring.”
• Rep. Rashida Tlaib said ICE is “terrorizing our communities” and “turning our country into a fascist police state,” and called it a “rogue agency.”
• Rep. Ayanna Pressley said ICE is “terrorizing our communities.”
• Rep. Max Frost compared ICE operations to “some of the worst horrors and crimes against humanity” in history.
• Rep. John Larson said ICE is “the SS” and “the Gestapo.”
• Rep. LaMonica McIver incited people to “shut down the city” because “we are at war.”
• Rep. Stephen Lynch smeared ICE agents as “the Gestapo” and “nondescript thugs.”
• Rep. Dan Goldman compared federal agents to “secret police” who must be unmasked.
• Rep. Becca Balint called ICE agents “vigilantes” who can’t be trusted.
• Rep. Ilhan Omar said ICE agents are “vile and beyond cruel,” and that the agency should be abolished.
• Rep. Nikki Budzinski called ICE agents “dangerous and reckless.”
• Sen. Bernie Sanders asked people to “figure out a way to stop ICE from what they are doing as soon as possible.”
• Sen. Elizabeth Warren claimed ICE is “intentionally stok[ing] fear” and “tear[ing] communities apart.”
• Rep. Hakeem Jeffries implored people to “fight” the Trump Administration “in the streets” and declared ICE agents “will be unsuccessful” in protecting their identities “no matter what it takes.”
• Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compared ICE agents to the neo-Nazi group NSC-131.
• Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson accused ICE of being “secret police” who are “terrorizing our communities.”
• Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass spread a disgusting, fabricated hoax that ICE “kidnapped” a woman on her way to work.
• Rep. Gil Cisneros claimed ICE has “terrorized” people through “racial profiling.”
• Rep. Eric Swalwell said it was his “priority” to ensure ICE agents “are no longer faceless,” comparing them to “some 1800s bank robber or some KGB officer in Russia.”
• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said ICE “should not exist.”
• Rep. Kweisi Mfume challenged the Trump Administration to “a street fight.”
• Rep. Jerry Nadler accused ICE agents of “hiding misbehavior because otherwise why would they be wearing masks?”

Of course, none of the statements quoted is untrue or falls outside of First Amendment protection.  They're simply not what the authoritarian fascists want you to say, so First Amendment be damned.  They also want those listed to be cowed and to serve as a warning for others who might speak out.

What's next?  Bogus, harassing prosecutions?   That might be the least of the worries, since this list puts a target on the back of each of these Democrats, including at least two potential Democratic presidential candidates, which is really what it's all about.  You can be certain there's an unpublished list of others who've spoken out, been arrested, or otherwise have run afoul of the burgeoning police state of the Malignant Fascist. 

(Image:  a different list that the Malignant Fascist's regime is on its way to completing.)