Of the 11 photos in this Portland TV station, WKOIN, website article…
… two sent a chill down my spine. The one above and the one below show men with sniper rifles. They are all wearing masks. If they shot someone they couldn’t readily be identifed.
To me this masked man looks really serious. I wonder what is going on in his mind. It’s one thing to practice shooting at a range, but perhaps there are people who would like to have human targets.
The most disquieting one has three of them who seem to be looking though the sights.
The text below that photo says that the agents are “looking down” at protestors. I fact they are looking down and aiming rifles at them.
Who, I pondered, are they looking at. Who may they actually have their crosshairs on? At least one of them seems to have be looking through the scope and has his finger close to the trigger.
Is there a bullet in the chamber? Is the weapon a finger squeeze away from being fired which would result in a life being ended?
These photos are in stark contrast to the photo below of three Portland police officers, two of whom appear to be smiling and relaxed:
You might think, naively, that some higher-up would have told the agents to keep their long guns out of sight and limit themselves to the “job” of taking photos knowing that reporters on the ground would also be taking pictures.
But no, obviously intimidating people by taking their photographs wasn’t enough. They had to remind them that if it came right down to it they could put bullets through their brains.
Every American should be “up in arms,” not the kind of arms that fire bullets, but “up in arms” meaning protesting vigorously over being treated like a an enemy within.
Addendum:
Yesterday’s Substack, Go beyond keeping protests peaceful, Portland, pretend ICE headquarters is invisible, included a map showing how close I live to the ICE building.
