Source: CounterPunch
by Jeffrey St. Clair
“The lies aren’t even creative. They’re pro forma. They tell them to cloak the impunity given to the murderous agents of the state, who’ve been unshackled from the Constitution and given license to raid and ransack, detain and kill at will. But how long will even the most slavish devotees of this regime be willing to swallow the lies without convulsing from deep-welling nausea? The right-to-lifers? The evangelicals? The NRA? How much will they tolerate? After all, federal agents disarmed Alex Pretti, then they shot him. You couldn’t script a more harrowing parable for the NRA’s warnings about the sanctity of gun rights for all these years. Will this heinous killing finally make them turn on Trump? Don’t count on it.” (01/26/26)