Around the Traps 23/1/26

 It is time again for Around the Traps.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Isabelle Oderberg on randa-abdel-fattah-controversy Thanks Nick
• Nick Feik on the-implosion-of-adelaide-writers Thanks Nick
• Genna Lehmann on foreign-investment-screening-could-have-saved-chipmaker-nexperia-what-are-lessons
• Charlene Chan on research-reveals-a-surprising-line-of-defence-against-cyber-attacks-accountants
• Michelle Grattan on defiant-nationals-break-with-liberals-over-hate-bill-putting-strain-on-coalition ,coalition-split-is-massive-blow-for-ley-but-the-fault-lies-with-littleproud
• Victor Abramowicz on keeping-australian-defence-contestability-independent
• Anne Twomey on hate-crime-laws-may-have-unintended-consequences-including-chilling-free-speech
• Linda Botterill on instead-of-a-marriage-the-coalition-should-be-an-on-again-off-again-affair
• Shannon Brincat on carneys-rallying-cry-to-middle-powers-includes-australia-and-we-should-heed-his-call
• Luke McNamara on who-will-bear-the-brunt-of-labors-hate-speech-laws-the-government-has-failed-to-give-a-clear-answer

OZ Climate

• fewer-people-calling-on-coal-suburban-hotspots-revealed-as-home-battery-rebates-top-200000
  
• too-valuable-to-throw-out-labor-announces-first-national-solar-panel-recycling-pilot-program
  
• queenslands-fossil-first-energy-plan-under-attack-with-new-outages-and-evacuation-at-troubled-coal-plant
  
• the-rise-of-battery-storage-and-why-the-grid-is-rapidly-passing-gas
  
• origin-to-keep-australias-biggest-coal-generator-open-for-another-two-years
  
• australias-transition-from-coal-is-being-held-hostage-by-its-obsession-with-spinning-machines
  
• w-a-backflips-on-loss-making-coal-generator-promises-more-subsidies-to-keep-plant-open
  
• australia-should-go-hard-on-evs-exempt-them-from-gst-and-save-40-billion-a-year-in-fuel-imports
• reduced-appetite-for-solar-giant-hybrid-project-slashes-pv-component-by-half-as-it-seeks-green-tick
  
• total-transformation-of-the-australian-summer-climate-change-made-january-heatwaves-five-times-more-likely
  
• shared-solar-labors-free-power-plan-to-have-daily-cap-to-stop-abuse-by-ev-and-home-battery-owners
  
• Lisa Cox and Graham Readfearn on australian-carbon-credit-scheme-solar-electric-vehicles-accused-potentially-misleading-customers

Northern America

• the next move on minneapolis-gaslighting Thanks Nick
• institutional economics on did-nouriel-roubini-curse-us-exceptionalism
• Kruggers on the-stupidest-trump-move-so-far , big-business-should-end-its-faustian, its-sundowning-in-america , maga-delusions-of-economic-leverage , courageous-carney-vs-demented-donald
• Dustin De  Soto and Astead Herndon  on trump-greenland-congress-war-powers 
• noahpinion on trapped-in-the-hell-of-social-comparison , resistance-is-necessary-but-its-not-enough
• Samuel Garrett on congress-power-has-been-diminishing-for-years-leaving-trump-to-act-with-impunity
• Scott Hechinger on cell-phone-filming-ice-doj-renee-good-shooting
• Anne Applebaum on trump-letter-to-norway
• Peter Orszag on risk-higher-us-inflation-2026 Thanks Tyler
• Drezners world on revenge-of-the-toddler-in-chief Thanks Brad
• renew economy on solar-accounts-for-three-fifths-of-us-electricity-demand-growth-in-2025-despite-trumps-best-efforts 
• Bruce Wolpe on a-year-on-from-his-second-inauguration-trump-2-0-has-one-defining-word-power
• Ian Millhiser on supreme-court-bruen-wolford-lopez-hawaii
• Fred Kaplan on trump-greenland-obsession-impeach , trump-davos-speech-canada-new-world-order
• Stephanie McCrummen on trump-greenland-obsession-impeach
• Tom Nicholls on us-military-trump-greenland
• new deal democrat on us-has-largely-turned-into-a-banana-republic-in-political-and-economic-terms
• Melissa Tyler on rearview-mirror-america-s-year-foreign-aid-cuts
• Sophie Yi on trump-has-swapped-productive-hypocrisy-crude-exercises-power
• David Frum on fiona-hill-0n-putin
• Christian Paz on ice-minnesota-religious-priest-pastor-faith-immigration-deportation-protest-st-paul-minneapolis-catholic-evangelical
• Menzie Chinn on guest-contribution-the-new-political-economy-of-u-s-trade
• Sassan Glasser on its-time-to-talk-about-donald-trumps-logorrhea

Europe

• Shannon Brincat on trump-has-threatened-european-countries-with-higher-tariffs-if-he-doesnt-get-greenland-will-it-work
• renew economy on irelands-oldest-wind-farm-closes-down-to-make-way-for-one-of-europes-largest-projects
• Tyler Cowen on is-there-a-british-productivity-comeback
• Jason Ralph on why-keir-starmer-had-to-speak-out-against-trump-over-greenland-after-staying-quiet-on-venezuela
• Eric Van Rythoven on trumps-annexation-of-greenland-seemed-imminent-now-its-on-much-shakier-ground
• Ian Hill on russia-ukraine-war-lost-amid-distractions
• Isaac Chotiner on how-europe-can-respond-to-trumps-greenland-imperialism
• terribly sensible on productivity-comeback Thanks Tyler
• Saxon Wright-Casanova on truth-about-arctic-strategic-competition
• renew economy on wind-and-solar-generate-more-electricity-in-europe-than-fossil-fuels-for-first-time-in-2025

Asia

• Amit Kumar on how-western-unity-taliban-afghanistan-quietly-fracturing
• Kruggers on chinas-trade-surplus-part-iii
• Roland Raja on yes-vietnam-really-winning-trade-wars
• Arkophrabho Hazra on cricket-has-india-s-soft-power-tool-become-strategic-liability
• Susanna Patton on peace-asian-way-china-s-role-thailand-cambodia-conflict
• Yixiao Zhou on to-sustain-prosperity-as-its-population-shrinks-china-will-have-to-invest-big-at-home
• Mark Beeson on ruled-by-engineers-how-china-gets-things-done-leaving-the-us-in-the-dust
• Shadi Rouhshabaz on international-community-failing-iranian-people
• Cora Engelbrecht on a-massacre-in-mashhad

Wonk

• Jason White on automotive-roadsafety-innovation-activity Thanks Nick
• artificial bureaucracy on context-widows Thanks Nick
• Konstantin Zhukov on searching-reporters-homes-suing-journalists-and-repressing-citizen-dissent-are-well-known-steps-toward-autocracy
• Tim Harford on why-populism-became-popular
• Robert Baird on the-crisis-whisperer-how-adam-tooze-makes-sense-of-our-bewildering-age Thanks Tyler
• Anya Arthurs on taking-paracetamol-in-pregnancy-doesnt-increase-your-babys-risk-of-autism-or-adhd-new-review
• Imran Khalid on the-decline-of-sanctions
• noahpinion on zero-sum-economics-keeps-failing , lets-save-the-human-species
• Tyler Cowen on when-did-argentina-lose-its-way , fears-of-larger-wars-in-east-africa ,what-davos-and-mark-carney-get-wrong
• forked lightning on using-generative-ai-to-learn-is-like-Odeysseus-untying-himslef-from-the-mast
• the conversable economist on us-china-competition-for-ai-markets
• Brad De Long on why-are-there-academic-marxists-who-do-not-follow-in-Marx's-footsteps-at-all
• Greg Jericho on the-imfs-banal-language-is-sane-washing-an-economic-crisis-created-by-the-egomaniacal-donald-trump
• Mark Shanahan on one-venue-two-speeches-how-mark-carney-left-donald-trump-in-the-dust-in-davos
• Peter Wehner on maga-christians-betray-ethics-ice
• Sam Roggeveen on rupture-not-transition-carney-s-new-order
• Aylon Berger on sidelining-human-capital-western-industrial-policy
• Chris Dillow on on-regulatory-capture

General

• Chloe Riley on like-jane-eyre-ive-been-seen-as-unconventional-and-abnormal-im-autistic-is-she-too
• Maxime Aubert et al on humanitys-oldest-known-cave-art-has-been-discovered-in-sulawesi
• Anthony Clarke and Chris Kirkland on grains-of-sand-prove-people-not-glaciers-transported-stonehenge-rocks
• David Nicholls on rob-hirst-was-not-the-figurehead-of-midnight-oil-but-he-was-its-backbone
• Upama Aich on why-are-human-penises-so-large-new-evolutionary-study-finds-two-main-reasons

Climate

• Ben Mather et al on the-way-earths-surface-moves-has-a-bigger-impact-on-shifting-the-climate-than-we-knew
• skeptical science on keep-in-ground , wmo-confirms-2025- was-one-of-the-warmest-yearshtml

Andrew Gelman ( mostly stats)

• dont-get-any-on-you 
  
• coding-for-humans-best-practices-for-writing-software-people-can-read
  
• retroactively-validated-hype
  
• noems-razor-never-attribute-to-stupidity-that-which-is-adequately-explained-by-malice
  
• two-workflow-challenges-from-2012-that-were-solved-as-a-byproduct-of-something-else
  
• once-more-about-the-z-curve-method
  
• survey-statistics-total-margin-of-error
  
• what-a-coincidence-what-a-coincidence
  
• aking
  
• reducible errors on prediction-markets Thanks Nick
• freakometrics on the government will foot the bill , mathematical advances on emerging risks
• junk charts on the-smell-of-pie-charts , var-technology-is-ruining-football

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• angry bear on book-review-the-edge-of-the-world
• Andrew Moody on my-year-in-books

Vox Wonk

• addressing-europes-services-dependencies 
  
• tariff-reciprocity-and-true-cost-protection-index 
  
• forecasting-inflation-sum-cycles-outperforms-the-whole
  
• minimum-wages-and-insurance-within-firm
  
• socioeconomic-inequality-longevity-larger-we-thought
  
• when-broadband-comes-banks-credit-supply-market-structure-and-information-acquisition
  
• update-great-reallocation-us-supply-chain-trade
  
• central-bank-digital-currency-and-monetary-sovereignty
  

The coalition in a pickle

 Wow, three members of the national party who are also in the shadow cabinet thought after shadow cabinet agreed to the new hate laws thought they could vote against the laws.

See  Michelle Grattan

Maybe they were worried about hate-crime-laws-may-have-unintended-consequences-including-chilling-free-speech.  I doubt it.

The essence of cabinet government is once cabinet agrees to something all members of cabinet vote that way otherwise you would have anarchy!

 The Nationals want it both ways. It aint possible.

Why then are the National party reacting thus. Maybe because of THIS. 

The One Nation surge is coming at the expense of the coalition.  They appeal to uneducated, low income regional voters so if this surge stays it is the Nationals who are in trouble rather than the Liberals. The Liberals cannot embrace one nation policies as it would mean losing more seats to teals.

What is interesting is what occurs to preferences. See Kevin Bonham. Just imagine a regional seat where the contest is between the ALP, Liberals, Nationals and one nation. Let us now imagine the ALP preferences flow to the lib.They overtake the national and it becomes a contest between the lib and one nation. How many national preferences would flow to the lib. what a pickle!

I think it is far too early to speculate on these things BUT the Nationals actions means the LNP vote should not recover in the short term.

Is Albo having a Menzies moment?

The security forces are most likely not at fault

 Alas too many people are blaming albo for the bondi massacre which is clearly absurd. Some twits like Minns are associating it with the pro-palestinian protests which on present information would be absurd as well and totally ignorant.

If the terrorist's were highly influenced by ISIS and believed in a palestinian state then they would be all over the place in terms of ideology. Just remember they are in possession of a video from the living terrorist and thus far we have heard nothing meaning it tells us very little.

The murderers were lone wolves and lone wolves are very hard to detect. They used very little if any social media making it so much harder to detect. Finally no-one had a clue about their obvious fanatical beliefs. Neither the wife, relatives or close friends.

In other words it would have been next to impossible to stop the massacre!

In the past preventing any incident has been relatively easy for ASIO and other agencies as the people concerned were idiots and easy to detect. Not so here and the two people were not highly educated. The massacre was highly planned and researched.

One obvious answer to this sad incident is for the authorities to rely more on old fashioned intelligence. This is highly labour intensive and would need 'snouts' that have great discernment. They would need to understand islam intimately for a start.They would thus need to know which preachers are leading towards violence and who are people who believe in their teachings. 

It is all hard yakka but necessary.

More on australian Polity

 It is stil la big pickle.

Security forces

Up until bondi the security forces has saved us from a major terrorist incident. ( no the Lindt cafe was NOT a terrorist incident.)  This is mainly because the alleged terrorists were idiots. It is not hard to stop things occurring when the people are stupid!

We still know little about bondi. There is apparently a video on the survivor's phone saying something about bondi however we do not know whether it is in vague general terms or specific. Given nothing has been said I suspect it is the former.

We do know the security forces believe both father and son were strongly aligned with ISIS. This incident was well planned and they did not tell anyone of their 'religious' understanding of the koran and other documents. since they are poorly educated and the father was from India it is unlikely they knew much arabic. They also were off the grid having little to no social media and were lone wolves. given the father was not a mad islamic terrorist or had views that way when he came and neither did the son when ASIO examined him their belief structure appears to be recent. Whether it was slow in forming or was sudden we have NO idea.

Hence it is not surprising our forces knew little about them or could stop their murderous actions.

Hopefully Richardson and the RC can assist us in this.

LNP

If albo and the government were slow as a wet weekend on this matter the Opposition have been all over the place. They wanted parliament to be open before christmas and legislation passed. But now things are running too fast. We need time apparently to study any legislation. Huh

Hate speech 

This will need very careful wording. I see some people not agreeing quoting from a religious text should not be exempt Hmm picking on the Koran although it is satanic, brings up a load of problems. If you can say something is hate speech from scripture for example then can a pastor talk about homosexulaity in a sermon? most importantly it would v be viewed as picking on muslims and thus could exacerbate islamic radicalisation.

Also what exactly is hate. Defining that like anti-semitism will be very important.You do not want to lower the standard to bring in unthought consequences.

Polling

Kevin Bonham writes a great column concerning one poll. well worth a read. IF One Nation continues to poll well this will be a major consideration.  If you are going to vote for an idiot I would rather Jackie Kelly than Pauline Hanson. although both have constant with others Jackie never has a svengali behind her!

OZ Politics in a pickle

 Oh dear what is happening.

Adelaide writers festival

A highly distasteful Palestinian writer was barred from the festival. She made an almighty fuss which led to the festival being cancelled. Most invited people said no thanks to the festival.

Now I have little time for the aggrieved writer. She supported the murderous killings on October 7. Just remember no-one knows whether those murdered supported Israeli actions or not . We do know several actually supported palestinian rights!!  what also gets on my goat is she wanted thomas Friedman disinvited from a previous festival. Hypocrite!!

Despite that She should have been allowed to be there. Idiots are allowed to espouse their nonsensical views in a democracy I hope.  They merely show they are an idiot.

The Premier who is easily the best in the country had some shine taken off him from this incident.

Fallout from the bondi massacre

Where do we start. 

If you think antisemitism is on the rise then show it but beware. 

•  It will be artificially heightened by a criminal attempting to do a deal with authorities. Re caravan with explosives where Minns was shown to be anc absolute goose and wood duck.
• Iran artificially increased the numbers 
• criticism of the Israeel i government artificially increases the numbers. Indeed the said government put out a report on anti-semitism which essentially included only criticism of the government. Little mention of neo-nazis!!
• NSW police included incidents against muslims in their anti-semitism numbers

You need to start with a decent definition of anti-semitism. 'Our' envoy could not and criticism of the Israeli government was included in the defintion she used.given her background this was to be expected.

Both the terrorists were said to be highly influenced by ISIS if not disciples of the organisation. ISIS does not give tuppence about the palestinian cause. That is because they are either Shia muslims or christian. Thus they are either heretics or apostates.Both 'worthy' of death.

Bozos like Minns or THIS article conflate the killings and post october 7 demonstrations. Unless the murders held contradictory views then the conflation is sheer ignorance or racist tripe.

Others want to clamp done on muslim immigration. Again  it is the sane thing. The father came here and married a white european who was NOT a muslim. does that sounds like someone in the ISIS camp? I hear time and time again problems of Lebanese and Gazan immigration. Only general mind you never specific. See above for problems for believing all muslims are the same.

Austraalia, like all Western nations made it harder to not only immigrate but visit nations after 9/11.

There is also comments on social media. Previous 'terrorist' attempts in Australia were easily stopped. The people involved were idiots.

We doo not know much in this instance but it appears to have been well planned. Not only that but everyone was shocked by their actions. The wife. their close friends, their family in India. Thus they did not use social media and they were lone wolves making it very hard for security forces to know what they were planning.

I do not mind a RC BUT only after Richardson has done his work and most importantly we know what definition of anti-semitism they will use

Around the Traps 16/1/26

 It is time for Around the Traps again.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Josh Roose on these-are-the-6-key-questions-the-antisemitism-royal-commission-needs-to-answer
• John Hawkins on inflation-cooled-more-than-expected-in-november-but-rate-cuts-remain-unlikely-anytime-soon
• Peter Layton on australia-s-suddenly-emerging-greenland-dilemma
• Mark the Graph on australias-productivity-problem
• Matteo Vergani on the-antisemitism-debate-is-already-a-political-minefield-the-royal-commission-must-rise-above-it
• Peter Greste on adelaide-festival-board-decision-randa-abdel-fattah-silencing-voices
• Milad Haghani on yes-those-big-touchscreens-in-cars-are-dangerous-and-buttons-are-coming-back
• Victor Abramowicz on securing-australia-s-fuel-supplies-major-conflict
• Anne Twomey on australia-hate-laws-banning-organisations-sorry-history
• Kieran Hardy on with-its-new-laws-the-government-is-tackling-hate-speech-quickly-but-not-properly
• Luke McNamara on criminalising-racist-hatred-is-a-big-step-but-it-will-neither-end-free-speech-nor-fix-racism-in-australia
• networks-are-losing-volume-to-rooftop-pv-and-home-batteries-and-we-now-have-a-tariff-problem
  
• Kevin Bonham on why-hunter-2025-cant-be-used-to-do-last-election- labor-vs-one nation- preference-flows

OZ Climate

• Jason Sharples et al on when-bushfires-make-their-own-weather
• David Bowman on rain-one-minute-heatwave-the-next-how-climate-whiplash-drives-unpredictable-fire-weather
• australias-most-powerful-turbines-unveiled-as-fourth-wind-farm-reaches-financial-close-in-xmas-flurry
  
• more-than-just-fuel-saving-how-rooftop-pv-slashed-grid-demand-in-middle-of-heatwave
  
• massive-2-gw-wind-solar-and-battery-project-lands-all-planning-approvals-in-breathtaking-four-months
  
• queensland-lnp-flags-call-ins-for-two-giant-battery-storage-projects-in-latest-attack-on-renewable-transition
  
• less-a-duck-curve-than-a-crocodile-head-how-the-isolated-west-is-outperforming-main-grid-on-renewables
  
• a-price-gouging-rip-off-cost-of-greenpower-certificates-have-plunged-but-retailers-still-charge-huge-premium
  
• fortescue-buys-us-battery-management-tech-to-boost-grid-scale-storage-needs-as-it-eliminates-fossil-fuels
  
• australian-households-add-record-amounts-of-rooftop-pv-as-home-battery-installations-top-4-3-gwh
  
• home-battery-installations-will-match-the-scale-of-snowy-hydro-scheme-in-a-single-year
  

Northern America

• David Sirota on romney-tax-rich Thanks Nick
• Menzie Chinn on change-in-federal-debt-held-by-the-public-trump-1-0-2-0-and-biden
• Ben Jones on ice-killing-of-driver-in-minneapolis-involved-tactics-many-police-departments-warn-against-but-not-ice-itself
• Kruggers on one-year-of-trumponomics , the-ignominious-death-of-drill-baby , trump-is-venezuelifying-the-united-states , donald-trump-would-be-price-controller , the-minneapolis-crucible
• noahpinion on why-are-federal-agents-gunning-down-americans-in-streets , gangster-affordability
• Bill Haskell on trumps-january-6-reality
• Brad De Long on orange-man-bad-macro-trumps-war-on-powell-and-economic-policy-reality
• Ian Millhiser on supreme-court-trump-immunity-jerome-powell
• Mark Stern on renee-good-killing-trump-ice-terrorists , supreme-court-news-trump-jerome-powell-fail
• Tyler Cowen on the-downside-of-nafta , they-are-solving-for-the-electoral-equilibrium
• Paul Rosenzweig on scotus-case-ice-arrests-permission-whren
• Franklin Foer on trump-federal-worker-layoffs-interviews
• Jonathan Chait on trump-desperate-powell-investigation
• David Frum on vance-defends-minneapolis-shooter-ice-maga-symbol
• Christian Paz on ice-enforcement-operation-culture-violence-minneapolis-border
• Jennifer Saul and Tim Kenyon on why-donald-trump-is-telling-such-obvious-lies-on-the-ice-minneapolis-killing
• Eric Schliesser on on-west-coast-straussianism-and-the-imperial-presidency
• the conversable economist on some-snapshots-of-the-us-demographic-future
• Menzie Chinn on gianluca-benigno-tariffs-as-national-security-tools
• John Edwards on fed-digs-its-heels
• Eric Levitz on ice-shooting-renee-good-trump-white-nationalist-memes-dhs-dol
• Yair Rosenberg on maga-trump-base-schism-exaggerated
• new deal democrat on december-consumer-inflation-a-return-to-pre-shutdown-trends-and-still-affected-by-the-shutdown-shelter-kludge
• Jeet Heer on renee-good-jd-vance-sexism-maga
• Christian Paz on minneapolis-right-wing-influencers-journalist-ice-reality-immigration-social-media-internet
• Fred Kaplan on ice-trump-dhs-department-of-homeland-security

Europe

• David Dunn et al on us-action-against-greenland-would-undermine-nato-but-now-is-not-the-time-to-panic
• Jonathan Paul on greenland-is-rich-in-natural-resources-a-geologist-explains-why
• Chris Armstrong on the-tories-are-dead-long-live-the-tories-reform-version
• Catherine Wilson on europe-grappling-its-identity-well-russian-aggression
• renew economy on solar-overtakes-lignite-to-keep-germanys-renewable-electricity-share-stable-at-55-9-pct-in-2025
• Henry Yep on war-ready-human-limits-strategy
• Tyler Cowen on negative-political-externalities-from-migration-to-britain
• Jeet Heer on europe-trump-nato-greenland/

Asia

• Joshua Keating on iran-protests-trump-khamenei
• David Remnick on the-bloody-lesson-the-ayatollah-took-from-the-shah
• Isaac Chotiner on what-makes-the-iranian-protests-different-this-time
• Yuyan Wahyunin grum on myanmar-s-election-test-asean-cannot-afford-fail
• Amin Naeni on this-is-the-playbook-the-iranian-regime-uses-to-crack-down-on-protests-but-will-it-work-this-time
• Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kiersenbaum on settlers-violence-ethnic-cleansing-west-bank-village
• Dara Conduit on why-iran-cant-afford-to-shut-down-the-internet-forever-even-if-the-world-doesnt-act
• Tyler Cowen on thomas-sargent-is-a-wise-man , chinas-supply-chain-problems

Wonk

• institutional economics on scott-sumners-core-nominal-gdp-concept 
• Brad De Long on the-curious-case-of-karl-marxs-1859-preface , yes-mrna-vaccines-work-and-it-appears-better-than-I-thought
• Ricardo Hausman on peace-and-prosperity-in-venezuela-will-come-from-democracy-not-oil Thanks Nick
• the pursuit of happiness on imagine-130000000-washing-machines Thanks Nick
• Jean -Nicolas Bordeleau et al on 4-pivotal-elections-around-the-world-that-will-pose-a-test-to-democracy-in-2026
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hopefully the last word on the minnesota killing

 I am getting very annoyed at some of the mis-information coming out of the this.

Fact 1. 

SHe had earlier put her daughter into day care and was coming back to where she lived in support of whomever ICE was targeting.

Fact 2.

Her cat was parked ( with engine on) ALONGSIDE an ICE SUV. IF she was impeding traffic so was ICE BUT only a minute before she had waved an ICE past her. THUS no impeding was occurring.

Fact 3.

THe ICE agent who killed her moved around her vehicle filing all of it on his phone. HE had her registration plate details.

Fact4.

The ICE agent moved in front of the vehicle, even though the motor was running, in strict ignorance of ICE protocols.

Fact 5.

SHe reverses her car and we see from his phone she is turning hard right. If his camera captures that he can be hardly ignorant of this.

Fact 6.

His gun is out of the holster when she reverses. His phone is in his left hand and his gun in is right hand.

Fact 6.

He shoots her three times. Again shooting a person in a car is against ICE protocols. The 2nd and 3rd shots cannot be because he was worried she would hit him with her car.

Thus far we have no evidence she hit him, there is a suggestion she touched him BUT we do know he was not injured in any shape or form.

The statement by the deputy AG does not pass the pub test and given the FBI and Justice departments immediately stopped any cooperation with local law enforcement it is entirely reasonable to conclude they want to hide something.

Why is there so much antagonism towards ICE.

My guess is because

• ThEy are the only people to wear masks and have no identification.
• They have had little training and are poor at their job. They escalate trouble not reduce as in this example.
• They have no idea of the law and often disobey it.
• They have been caught lying many times. They do know about smart phones surely.
• They ask anyone for identification without having any reasonable cause to do so.