Two Hundred and Fifty Years Ago. . .

Vice President Vance, who, as a graduate of Yale Law School, surely should know better, has stated that ICE agents possess absolute immunity. The Trump Administration’s FBI has prevented the Minnesota authorities from accessing the evidence needed for a grand jury to investigate the killing of Renee Good. Other ICE agents have shot and killed another citizen, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, under circumstances which make it very plausible that their actions constitute murder.

I recall that, among the grievances which Thomas Jefferson and his associates listed against King George the Third (whatever his blunders, a better man than Donald Trump), were: “For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States.”

We may soon discover whether enough Americans today have the resolution and the love of liberty which distinguished their ancestors two hundred and fifty years ago.