History Repeating Itself

I'm going to lay out the facts. You can draw your own conclusions.

Minneapolis: January 7, 2026 #

Renee Nicole Good—37-year-old American citizen, mother of three—was shot dead by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. She wasn't their target. She was a neighbor with a whistle, there to warn her community.

ABC News frame-by-frame analysis shows she was turning her steering wheel away from the agent when he fired three shots in 700 milliseconds. The agent was still standing, still holding his cell phone afterward. Mayor Frey's response: "If he was hit and run over by a car, how the hell is he still holding on to his cell phone afterwards?"

What happened next? The FBI seized the investigation, blocked Minnesota from accessing evidence. DHS changed policy the next day to require 7 days notice for Congressional visits—then used it to block three U.S. Representatives from inspecting ICE facilities.

A federal agent killed an American citizen. The federal government is now blocking state investigation and Congressional oversight.

Venezuela: The CECOT Deportations #

In March 2025, the Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798—a wartime law—to deport 238 Venezuelan men to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison. No hearings. No trials. No due process.

The government's own data, obtained by ProPublica, showed officials knew that the vast majority had not been convicted of crimes in the United States before labeling them as terrorists. CBS News and 60 Minutes found three-fourths had no apparent criminal record.

Among the deported:

• Jerce Reyes Barrios, a professional soccer player and youth coach with no criminal record
• Andry José Hernández Romero, a gay Venezuelan makeup artist seeking asylum, deported based on tattoos of crowns that are a religious tradition in his hometown
• Men with temporary protected status who had been attending every court hearing

A federal judge found their due process rights were violated. But here's the key: a judge ordered the planes turned around while they were in mid-air. The administration refused. That's defiance of a federal court order.

Former detainees described CECOT as "hell on Earth." Human rights organizations documented violations including arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture and other ill-treatment.

When Border Czar Tom Homan was asked if deportees got any chance to prove they weren't gang members, he replied:

"Due process? What was Laken Riley's due process?"

That's not law enforcement. That's collective punishment.

Venezuela: The Abduction of a Sovereign Leader #

On January 3, 2026, the United States military invaded Venezuela, bombed military infrastructure across the country, and abducted President Nicolás Maduro from his home.

Trump announced the U.S. would "run the country" until a transition could be arranged. He openly stated access to Venezuelan oil was a core reason for the action.

Chatham House, the international affairs think tank, concluded:

"This was a military operation of considerable scale... clearly a significant violation of Venezuelan sovereignty and the UN Charter."

Democratic Senator Mark Warner asked the question everyone should be asking: "Does this mean any large country can indict the ruler of a smaller adjacent country and take that person out?"

Greenland: Threatening a NATO Ally #

Days after the Venezuela operation, Trump turned his attention to Greenland—a self-governing territory of Denmark, a NATO ally.

His exact words:

"I would like to make a deal the easy way but if we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way."

The White House confirmed: "The president and his team are discussing a range of options to pursue this important foreign policy goal, and of course, utilizing the US military is always an option at the commander-in-chief's disposal."

Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller: "We live in a world, in the real world, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power... Nobody's going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland."

All five political parties in Greenland's parliament responded:

"We do not want to be Americans, we do not want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders."

Denmark's Prime Minister warned a U.S. attack would mark the end of the NATO military alliance.

The Pattern #

Now let's talk about history.

Hitler didn't start with gas chambers. He started with:

• The Enabling Act (1933): "Emergency powers" to bypass the legislature, override the constitution, and override the states. Sold as temporary. It never ended.
• Dehumanizing language: "Vermin." "Animals." "Subhuman." Applied first to Jews, then expanded.
• Territorial expansion: The Sudetenland was "German-speaking peoples who needed protection." Poland was "a threat to German security."
• Defiance of legal constraints: Courts were ignored, then captured, then abolished.

Now compare:

• An 1798 wartime law invoked against migrants with no criminal records
• Court orders defied while planes are in the air
• "Illegals," "criminals," "animals," "vermin" applied to entire populations
• A sovereign nation invaded and its leader abducted
• Military threats against a NATO ally because "we need it"
• Congressional oversight blocked
• State investigations blocked

Chatham House wrote:

"President Nicolás Maduro's abduction by the US is further evidence that, when dealing with the White House, any reference to international law is futile."

The Question #