2026-Jan-24, Saturday

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By now, everyone knows about this morning's event and the video. This news article contains both.
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/breaking-federal-agent-shoots-man-in-south-minneapolis

Somebody took still images from that video and highlighted a key point. The federal agents removed the gun before shooting the victim who had a phone in his hand. Elsewhere, news is reporting that the victim was registered to conceal carry that gun. I'm using online reports (caution: "I saw it on the internet, so it must be true.") and this New York Times summary.

Click to read the detailed list of former Amendments that are now useless and why...

If all of those bits of evidence are true, then it naturally follows that...

  1. The 1st Amendment is gone. It has been repeatedly established for everyone except this Republican administration that everyone has the legal right to observe. There are trainings going on in Minneapolis based on that very right. Except it's clearly gone here, where the observer (who was holding a phone, not a gun) was killed.
  2. The 2nd Amendment is gone. We've endured decades of school shootings and other mass murders, all because some people insist on the right to bear arms. If it's true this person had a legal firearm and a legal conceal and carry permit, then this amendment is also clearly gone.
  3. The 3rd Amendment is gone. ICE repeatedly insists that it can do whatever it wants, including known examples of breaking and entering without a judge-signed warrant. The federal government can intrude into your house for whatever reason it wants. We saw from earlier ICE actions that this amendment was gone before today's incident.
  4. The 4th Amendment is gone. The victim, a USA citizen, was not the intended target of this ICE invasion and action, and simply recording the incident was not interference in it. (See: 1st Amendment, above.)
  5. The 5th Amendment is gone. The victim had a right to not answer ICE agent questions, which maybe is what annoyed them to decide attacking him? I'm not as certain on this point. If true, then this amendment is also gone. Answer, or else.
  6. The 6th Amendment is gone. Everyone is supposed to have a right to trial. This guy was apparently judged and executed on the street, not captured and jailed. Also, ICE repeatedly prevents local officials from accessing the crime scene and data, again in today's shooting, despite local officials getting a warrant from a judge.
  7. The 8th Amendment is gone. Everyone is supposed to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. This guy was already shot and prone, when the second agent started shooting him again. I mean, you gotta be sure that your extrajudicial killing victim is dead, right?
  8. The 10th Amendment is gone. News stories abound regarding ICE collecting data willy-nilly, soon maybe even from popular Ring cameras. Orwellian surveillance is not something really imagined by the founders of the USA, so theoretically this power should belong to the people or the states. That kind of collection has been continuing for a while, but DOGE and ICE and Palantir have clearly escalated the problem.

I took this Reddit thread and expanded it above. With little exaggeration, basically, the entirety of the famous Bill Of Rights is now shredded.

What do we do now? Our Minnesota state governor Walz sent an even more strongly worded message to Trump.

I'm ready (and so is he, "I'm 70 years old, and I'm fucking angry") to write a new detailed list of grievances for the next Declaration Of Independence, with that list eerily similar to last time.

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