DEMOCRATS KILLED RENEE GOOD AND ALEX PRETTI
ARISTOCRATS MASQUERADING AS 'DEMOCRATS' ARE JUST AS GUILTY AS REPUBLICANS
Alex Pretti and Renee Good were both killed by Federal police in Minnesota. Photo credits: unknown, via Facebook.
MALONE, NEW YORK Jan. 30, 2026 OPINION
Federal police sent to Minnesota by Pres. Donald Trump pulled the triggers that killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti, but Aristocrats masquerading as "Democrats" are the ones who put those militarized police on the streets licensed to kill in the first place.
Bill Clinton was president and the Democratic Party controlled both the Senate and the House of Representatives when they enacted the Crime Bill of 1994. Campaigning in 1992, candidate Clinton actually proposed creating a "National Police Corps.”
Clinton also proposed making former American soldiers freed from service as a result of the end of the Cold War police officers. He said he wanted to "offer unemployed veterans and active military personnel a chance to become law enforcement officers at home."
While Clinton's dream of a "National Police Corp" never materialized, Democrats passed the Crime Bill and Pres. Clinton signed it into law Sept. 13, 1994. The bill increased federal sentences, spurred a country wide prison-building boom and funded expansion of existing police forces across the Nation.
Democrats also enacted new laws restricting habeas corpus—which for centuries has been used to get judges to examine the legality of a person’s imprisonment. They gave bi-partisan support to the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. It passed the Senate by a 91-8 vote and was signed into law by Clinton.
Between flights to Jeffrey Epstein's perverted "Pedophile Island" resort, see-nothing, know-nothing Clinton managed to militarize the police even further in 2000.
That's when he signed into law a bill that made an unofficial presidential practice he started in 1998 a mandatory federal law. The Presidential Threat Protection Act of 2000 requires major local events with national significance be designated "National Security Special Events."
Militarized police sexually-assaulting a peaceful protester outside the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, Sept. 1, 2008. After taking this photograph, police shot the camera out of this reporter’s hand with a 40mm grenade launcher. Photo credit: JB Nicholas.
Examples of N.S.S.E.'s include presidential inaugurations, international economic summits held in the United States, major sporting events and presidential nominating conventions. When an event is designated a N.S.S.E, the Secret Service is tasked by the 2000 law as the lead federal agency in planning and implementing security operations. Those operations employ federal, state and local law enforcement.
Crucially, the N.S.S.E. law makes Federal cash grants available to local police to buy riot gear and other special equipment. When the N.S.S.E. is over, local police get to keep their new toys.
N.S.S.E. designation means protesters at these events face-off against cops dressed in camouflage or black, wearing body armor, driving armored vehicles, bearing truncheons, flashbang grenades, fire-extinguisher-sized cans of pepper-spray, pepper-ball shooters and 40mm miltary grenade launchers loaded with rubber bullets and other kinds of allegedly “less-lethal” ammunition that can blind and sometimes even kill.
Sound familiar?
This isn't even the first time militarized police have been unleashed on Americans in Minnesota.
That was during the 2008 Republican National Convention when an army of riot cops was unleashed on overwhelmingly peaceful protesters (a few broke some bank windows).
I know because I was there covering it as a photojournalist. Those federally-militarized, federally-trained, federally-armed and federally-led police shot my camera out of my hand with one of their 40mm riot guns. Then they beat me with clubs, jabbed at my groin with the ends of those clubs, punched me repeatedly and, to cover-up their crimes, falsely arrested me.
Those fucking pigs not only shot a camera out of my hands, they also shot a camera out of the hands of another photojournalist, Kelly R. Benjamin, pig records I later obtained showed.
By the time the 2008 R.N.C. was over, at least 40 journalists had been falsely arrested for doing nothing more than their jobs, according to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. I was just one of them. I met two more in the county jail: Matt Rourke, an Associated Press photographer from Philadelphia, and Nathan Webber, a Chicago Tribune contributor riot police chased down and beat—like a Crack dealer who tried to run from them. His clothes had blood on them—his blood.
Did that ring any Democrat alarm bells? Nope.
My camera after being shot out of my hands by militarized and federalized Minnesota police during the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Sept. 4, 2008. .Photo credit: JB Nicholas.
While Democrats grew the Federal law enforcement apparatus, they failed to enact laws to make sure their newly-militarized police force was accountable to the People.
At no point in the Democratic Party’s 197-year history, did it enact or even push to enact a law that would make federal law enforcement officers follow the Constitution by authorizing courts to hear civil rights lawsuits against them if they did violate the Constitution. While Congress passed and then-Pres. Ulysses S. Grant signed a law allowing civil rights lawsuits against state and local law enforcement officers in 1868, no such similar law exists to hold federal police accountable to the public for violating the Constitution. Not then, not now, not ever.
Not even after the 2014 police killings of Mike Brown and Eric Garner did Democrats act.
The twin deaths made Black Lives Matter a household name, but Democrats literally chose to put lipstick on a pig. Instead of making police reform a national priority, Democrats doubled-down on DEI. They choose the elite, over the working class. Wealthy children of color got to go to Harvard and Yale, while poor Blacks kept getting sent to prison—if they were luckly enough to avoid being summarily executed by police on the street. They called that “progress.”
Even after George Floyd's 2020 murder, in Minneapolis, Corporate-captured Democrats did nothing.
They should have (1) passed a federal law authorizing civil rights lawsuits against all federal police and officials for violating the constitution; (2) eliminated qualified immunity as a defense against such suits; (3) mandated public administrative disciplinary hearings for cops who break the law or regulations on duty; and (4) repealed the 1996 restrictions on Habeas Corpus.
Instead, then-Pres. Joe Biden unilaterally opened America's borders to anyone who wanted to come—pouring gasoline on a raging culture-war that was then already splitting the Nation.
I voted for Biden, even though I could never forget, or forgive, the key role he played in making the Crime Bill law as Senate Majority leader in 1994.
What made Biden's decision to open the borders so bad was that he did it all by himself. The American people never got a chance to vote directly on it by a referendum. Neither was it approved by Congress—through the People’s elected representatives. Biden did it by Executive fiat. He flung open the doors to our Nation like a king wearing a crown. Like it was his and his alone to give away as he pleased.
Did “Democrats” protest that with “No Kings” marches then? No. They celebrated instead.
Democrats claim to be the Party "defending Democracy," but lately whenever they have the chance to actually practice Democracy they act like the tyrants and fascists they hypocritically claim to condemn. Vice Pres. Kamala Harris's "appointment" as the Democratic Party's nominee to replace Biden in the 2024 election is another example of the Party’s anti-Democratic bent.
Funeral of Eric Garner, Brooklyn, New York, July 23, 2024. Photo credit: JB Nicholas.
When it comes to the millions of foreigners then-Pres. Biden let swarm across our borders, Corporate Democrats thought setting them up in hotels and giving them billions in welfare would build a future Democratic majority—while also satisfying their Corporate overlords' bottomless demand for cheap labor and a perpetually growing GDP.
In a country where extractive financial Capitalism has replaced factory-centered productive Capitalism, the over-class doesn’t make most of its money by producing things anymore—they make it by sucking cash out of the People with things like credit cards, loans, insurance payments and monthly subscription fees. The more migrants the Federal Government allows into our Nation, the more people there are, the more money the over-class can suck out of them.
That’s what “Democrats” mean when they say migrants are “good for the economy.”
While they may have temporarily satisified their Aristocratic campaign donors’ demands for more people to plug into their Captialist matrix, Democrats sabotaged whatever chances they had for future political dominance. Except for pockets of hard-left resistance in California and a handful of Northern, Liberal cities, turns out most Americans really don't want to compete with migrants for jobs and housing—in their own motherfucking country.
Don't tell me that's Republican propaganda either.
Since leaving New York City in 2022, I've lived in an upstate New York town on the Canadian border. One of my four step-daughters grew-up working in a local-owned deli here. A year-and-a-half after I got here, the locals sold the deli to migrants from India. The new owners fired her, and replaced her with one of their own. To these migrants, the only thing white people are good for is cash. They would never hire one to work for them. That’s what real Racism looks like.
Bullshit like that is why America voted for Trump, again, even though they saw all his flaws during his first presidency. As fucked up as he is, the future Democrats offered us was worse.
Cops have been summarily executing Black Americans like Floyd, Garner and Brown for decades. Also what real Racism looks like. Cops kill two white people, get caught doing it on camera, over migrants, and all of a sudden Corporate Democrats and their Aristocratic propaganda mouthpieces like the New York Times say militarized policing has gone too far—when they created militarized policing in the first place, without any safeguards whatsoever.
The American blood on Democrats' hands is the same color as the blood on Republicans’ hands: red, white and blue. Both are to blame for the killings of Good and Pretti.
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