Doubling Down On Being Wrong Only Makes You Twice As Wrong.

Here we are on 26 January 2026. It's three weeks into the new year and Trump's ICE gestapo have already murdered 9 people. Make no mistake, since ICE is not empowered to kill people at random in public streets, no matter what Trump, Vance, Miller or Noem claim. These weren't "domestic terrorists" or "highly paid protestors" - they were ordinary people, some of whom were US citizens.

I've been paying attention to the levels of public outcry to these literal state-sanctioned murders. This is what I've found.

To start with, here's a list of differences and similarities between the reactions to the two most recent ICE murders of Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, based on available information on 20260125:

Similarities:

• Nicole Good and Alex Pretti were both white US citizens, not immigrants or PoC.
• Neither of them were protesting; Good was attempting to pass by the ICE group in her vehicle when she was accosted and shot, Pretti was a pedestrian peaceful observer with a camera recording the protest.
• Both were unarmed at the time of their murders - Nicole Good did not have a weapon with her; Alex Pretti had already been disarmed when he was shot.
• Both were shot multiple times at point blank range by ICE agents who were in no danger at all.
• Good was portrayed by ferderal government as "a professional protestor" and "a domestic terrorist". Pretti was portrayed as "an assassin intending to kill multiple law enforcement agents".
• Neither Good nor Pretti was confrontational; Good was even smiling at the agent before he shot her.
• Both murders were recorded on phone video by multiple witnesses from different angles.
• In both cases, ICE acted outside of their mandate, violated established law enforcement protocols, and had been encouraged by politicians to believe that they had "total federal immunity" from prosecution or liability.
• High level Trump lackeys placed the blame on the victims themselves and praised the perpetrators.

Differences:

• Good was unarmed; Pretti was armed (licensed and did not reach for his weapon at any time). He also didn't "bring a gun to a protest" as the Trump regime lackeys claim, he was caught up in a protest that erupted in a street he happened to be walking along and stopped to record with his phone.
• Good was a white gay female; Pretti was ostensibly a white cis male (status unknown at this time).
• Good was a 37 year old mother of 4, Pretti was a 37 year old ICU nurse.
• Good was shot 3 times, Pretti was shot at least 5 times.
• Good was murdered by a single ICE agent, Johnathan Ross while in her vehicle. Pretti was accosted, disarmed, pistol-whipped, pinned to the ground, kicked and assaulted by ICE agents who piled on top of him, and shot upwards of 5 times for no justifiable reason at all.(Later reports state that up to 10 shots were fired at him).
• Witnesses of the Good murder were not detained by ICE; witnesses of the Pretti murder have been detained by ICE and taken to a detention facility. Others have gone into hiding.
• The ICE agent that murdered Good was claimed by Trump regime lackeys to have been taken to hospital for injuries sustained in an impact that never happened, as can be seen in all the video evidence. The hospital in question later denied that he'd been there on the day in question or received treatment for any injuries.
• The Good murder was immediately pounced upon by Nazis in the public domain who openly sided with ICE, denied the accuracy of any video evidence, and she and her family were met with intense insane hatred and even death threats; for the first 12 hours after the Pretti murder, it was met with a bizarre muted silence from the Nazi quarter of social media. "Normal" levels of Nazi hatred for the victim appear to have resumed since.

The disparity I see in all of this is, that while all this attention and outrage in reaction to these two murders is justified beyond measure, the American public seem in no way as outraged about the murders of 7 others committed by ICE in the first 3 weeks of 2026 alone: people of color, Hispanic people, citizens and/or immigrants of any status. Remember, the USA has abandoned due process - the right of any person accused of any wrongdoing to a trial. Human rights are not suspended under due process - but under the Trump regime, it seems that nobody has any rights at all anymore, except the right to obey, or be killed. Under the ICE reign of terror, even US citizens have been detained unlawfully, assaulted and brutalized, deported with "illegal immigrants" allegedly by mistake - and even murdered "execution style" in full public view.

Critics of the Trump Regime are calling the US the "Fourth Reich". It's not hard to see why anymore.

For those of us abroad keeping our eyes on events in the US, I've noticed a glaring lack of coverage of the previous 7 murders by ICE. Social media is awash with the names of Alex Pretti, Nicole Good - but not a sign of the others. It's *almost* as if the lives of those murdered previously did not count as much. To find them, you actually have to dig.

The outrage and horror and turmoil that erupted after the Good murder was significant... but still not enough to elicit any real changes in attitude in "white" America. Good was Caucasian - but was that lack of societal penetration due to the fact that she was female? Or was it because she was also a lesbian?

Just last week, 7 Democratic Party US senators voted along with Republicunts in Congress in favor of continuing to fund ICE... AFTER the Good murder, and after all the others prior to that. Only now, after the Pretti murder, are some lawmakers finally demanding action on ICE.

It seems to me that the most "public outrage" is reserved for when the victim of anything is perceivably a straight white male. I'd love to be proven wrong about that - but I don't see how. The rest are always just footnotes - something PoC in the US have been acutely aware of all along. When they shouted "Black lives matter!", white supremacists drowned them out with shouts of: "ALL lives matter!". All of these injustices and disparities are symptoms of a broken, flawed, corrupt system and the society it operates.

In short, I don't think most white Americans really care about the welfare of other people - that is, until it affects THEM individually. This is supported by the number of "conservatives" (Lite Nazis) finally starting to snap out of their delusions to realize that Alex Pretti could just as easily have been any one of them.

"Left" or "right" - the US seems to be rife with racism, whether deliberate or incidental.

It will take a lot more than any increasingly unlikely "mid-term election" - or even a revolution - to sort that out.