The Famous Bayonet Charge of the Korean War.

 

I was BS'ing with one of my friends at work and talking Army stuff and the difference of training from his time and mine, he is much younger and got towhere  we were talking about the bayonet and we don't even know if they even teach the "Spirit of the Bayonet" is "KILL, KILL, KILL" at that what it was in basic, LOL.  Too bloodthirsty, I suppose.

 When I was in basic training and the drill sergeants talked to us about bayonet fighting and how to use it, they talked about the Korean War when a couple of American Army platoons routed a large group of Chinese off a hill with just the bayonet.  They told us that the Chinese had circulated a piece around their army that the Americans were afraid of the bayonet and hand to hand combat.  Colonel Millett was attacked in 1951 and rather than bunker in, he and his men fixed bayonets and totally routed the Chinese.  The Drill sergeants also told us that we need to know how to use the bayonet, because if we run out of ammo, we will need to know how to fight with the bayonet to survive or if we die, to at least take a couple more with us.  So we trained and trained with the bayonet.  We were the first cycle of trainees in the 80's to get the bayonet training after it was removed in the 70's due to congressional and public pressure.  We always had the bayonet on our rifles, they had the scabbards on them, but they were fixed.

  We got used to the weight and got pretty good with the bayonet, from block and parry to high, medium and low strike or the ever popular buttstock smash.

 Even now once and a while I will affix a bayonet on my rifle and go through the motions.   I honestly believe some people will get real careful if they have to worry about somebody sticking them with a bayonet and swishing things around.
     Well anyway it took a bit of time for me to find the story about that the famous bayonet charge was that the Drill Sergeants were referring to, and here it is.

The grizzled-looking redhead, complete with a handlebar mustache, charged with his men. Their enemy did not stand a chance as they had very sophisticated weapons – the bayonet.
Lewis Lee Millett Sr. was born on December 15, 1920, in Mechanic Falls, Maine. His grandfather had served in the American Civil War, while an uncle had fought with the 101^st Field Artillery Regiment of the Massachusetts Army National Guard during WWI. Millett joined the Massachusetts National Guard in 1938 while he was still in High School, enlisting in his uncle’s regiment.
The following year, Germany invaded Poland, ushering in WWII. By 1940 Millett was in gunnery school with the US Army Air Corps. In 1941, frustrated by America’s reluctance to enter the war and eager to fight, he deserted. He and a friend hitchhiked across the border and joined the Canadian Army. They assigned him to the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery where the training was quite unlike any he had in the US

“The Canadian infantry was always doing bayonet training,” he later recalled. “Stabbing straw-filled dummies, parry, thrust, shouting. It made an impression on me.”
Sent to Britain Millett underwent commando training. He was also trained as an anti-aircraft radar operator and was stationed in London during the Blitz – the German carpet bombing of British cities between September 1940 and May 1941.
Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, America entered the war. No longer stimulated by radar work, Millett went to the US Embassy in London and rejoined the US Army. He became an anti-tank gunner with the 27^th Armored Field Artillery Regiment, 1^st Armored Division.

Shermans disembarking from LST at Anzio.

Millett served in Tunisia in North Africa where he became a hero when his group came under fire, and a half-track truck filled with ammunition burst into flames. He jumped into the vehicle and drove it away from Allied soldiers then leaped off before it exploded. He was awarded the Silver Star – the third highest military decoration.
He later shot down a German Messerschmitt Me-109 fighter plane with a half-track mounted machine gun. Millett, by then a sergeant, took part in the Allied invasion of Italy and saw combat at the Battle of Anzio (January – June 1944) that led to the capture of Rome.
While he was serving in Italy, the Army found out about his desertion. Despite Millett’s achievements, heroism, and medals, the army did not take kindly to deserters. He was court martialed, convicted, ordered to pay a fine of $52 ($810 in 2017 values), and denied leave.
Just a few weeks later he was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant and given a battlefield commission. Fortunately, he survived the war and returned home to a hero’s welcome. Millett then went to college. In June 1950 while in his third year, the Korean War broke out and he was called up.
By 1951 Millett was in Korea as a captain and commander of Company E, 2^nd Battalion, 27^th Infantry Regiment.
On February 7, his company was in the province of Chungchongbuk-Do, South Korea near the village of Soam-ni. Their goal was the top of Hill 180 where today the Osan Air Base is located.

In the ferocious fighting of early 1951, Millett recalled reading a document that said the Chinese believed American soldiers dreaded hand-to-hand combat, and were fearful of “cold steel

“We’ll see about that, you sons of bitches,” he muttered. At a feature called Hill 180, under grenade and rifle fire, he led two platoons in a bayonet charge up the hill.

“I always had my men fix bayonets,” he said. “I never forgot the Canadian training. We didn’t do much bayonet drill in those days, but I gotta say, those Chinese didn’t know what hit them when we charged.”
Captain Millett ordered his men to attach their bayonets and attack. He shouted encouragement to his men throughout the hand to hand fight. When they reached the top, they stormed the enemy position despite heavy fire.
Millett was in the lead when they charged an anti-tank rifle crew. The gunner did not stand a chance as Millett’s bayonet dove into his stomach. Another enemy soldier reached for a machine pistol just as Millett’s blade sliced through his throat. The third was another matter. In his hands was a cocked and loaded submachine gun which he aimed at the crazy redhead making a beeline toward him.
Millett’s face matched the color of his red handlebar mustache as he screamed and hurtled toward the enemy soldier who stood frozen with shock – possibly wondering what a Viking was doing so far from home. Millett’s bayonet claimed its third victim.
“The bayonet went into his forehead,” Millett later said. “With the adrenaline flowing you’re strong as a bull. It was like going into a watermelon.”
The battle continued, and although Millett sustained grenade fragments to his leg, he refused to be evacuated. They routed the Chinese and secured the hill.
“I never forgot the Canadian training,” he proudly said. “We didn’t do much bayonet drill in those days, but I gotta say, those Chinese didn’t know what hit them when we charged.”
He was right. In the aftermath of their attack, some 50 enemy soldiers lay dead – 20 from bayonets. Military historian, Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, described it as “the most complete bayonet charge by American troops since Cold Harbor” – which happened during the American Civil War in 1864.

SLA Marshall

Millett led the way and routed the Chinese. His Medal of Honor citation reads: “His dauntless leadership and personal courage so inspired his men that they stormed into the hostile position and used their bayonets with such lethal effect that the enemy fled in wild disorder.”

In the Vietnam war, Millett was involved in a clandestine intelligence program aimed at subverting and killing Viet Cong in the countryside. He retired in 1973 when he felt the U.S. was abandoning South Vietnam.
He once told an interviewer: “I believe deeply in freedom. I’ve fought in three wars, and volunteered for all of them . . . I believe as a free man it is your duty to help those under the attack of tyranny. It’s as simple as that.”
Lewis Millett, old soldier, died on Nov. 14, age 89:

Millett’s impressive military awards include the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star, two Legions of Merit, three Bronze Star Medals, four Purple Hearts, and three Air Medals. In 1973 he retired from the military as a colonel.

"Progressivism's willing Sacrifice"

 

I got this off Michael Smith's Substack, all credit goes to him., the cartoon compliments of "Townhall.com"

Renée Good’s death is being treated by the progressive left as a morality tale with only one permissible conclusion: Trump's ICE is evil, the activist is pure, and any suggestion otherwise is heresy.

That reflexive framing is patently dishonest, and it got a woman killed.

Now that more video has surfaced and more information about Good has come out, I think it is worth diverging from the prepackaged narratives of the past few days.

In my view, the available footage and surrounding behavior strongly suggest that Good never intended to harm a federal agent. That observation, however, does not contradict my belief that the agent acted appropriately. He was clearly at risk, and in that moment he could not have known whether other agents were also in danger from a vehicle accelerating away from the scene.

The more likely explanation is simpler and more tragic. Good panicked. She feared detention. She believed—wrongly—that she was protected, exempt, insulated by her status, her politics, and the progressive infrastructure that had wrapped her in an illusion of moral invincibility. When that illusion shattered, instinct took over. She fled and that moment of flight, however human and understandable, was catastrophic. In the real world—not the activist one—a moving vehicle confronting law enforcement is not a symbol. It is a weapon. Intent becomes irrelevant.

The mistake many are making is to believe the public sparring between Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, and the insufferable Jacob Frey on one side, and Kristi Noem and the Trump administration on the other, is the real conflict.

It isn’t.

The real culprits are the leaders of a progressive movement that treats human beings as disposable assets. As I thought about this dynamic, a line from Braveheart came to mind, when Edward Longshanks sneers, “Arrows cost money. Use up the Irish. The dead cost nothing.”

Substitute “affluent white female liberals” for “the Irish,” and the analogy fits uncomfortably well. This is where Minnesota officials, the DFL, and the broader national progressive movement bear direct responsibility for Renée Good’s death.

Good was not a trained professional. She was not a lawyer. She was not a federal monitor. She was labeled a “legal observer”—a title casually bestowed by activist organizations that carries no legal standing but enormous psychological weight. It implies authority without responsibility, protection without power, and safety without consequence.

It is, bluntly, a lie.

That lie is sold aggressively to a specific demographic: affluent, educated white women who have spent their lives buffered from the sharp edges of state power. They are overrepresented in progressive nonprofits, activist training sessions, and street-level demonstrations precisely because they are useful. Their presence sanitizes confrontation. Their voices humanize the cause. Their injuries—and deaths—generate outrage capital and the next Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, or George Floyd “moment” that has fueled nearly every major protest movement since 2012.

This is not an accident. It is a strategy.

And now Renee Gold is dead and the progressive ghouls have their “moment.”

Progressive leaders know exactly what they are doing when they deploy these women into volatile law-enforcement situations. They know these participants lack experience with arrest, detention, or physical coercion. They know they are more likely to panic when confronted with real authority. And they know the resulting images will be politically advantageous no matter how the encounter ends. In their heart of hearts, they are looking for that moment.

If this sounds cynical, it should—because it is.

The movement’s rhetoric trains its foot soldiers to see law enforcement not as agents of a legal system they may oppose, but as something closer to an occupying army—fascistic, illegitimate, morally void. They hype them up on the dopamine of fear and anger, wind them tight, and send them into the street. That process does not encourage de-escalation. It encourages flight, resistance, and defiance at precisely the moments when compliance is the only safe option.

When Good realized she was about to be detained, her ideology collapsed and all that remained was fear. Her partner reportedly urged her to run. That single word captures the entire failure of progressive activist culture: the belief that moral alignment suspends reality.

It does not.

And yet the response from movement leaders has been entirely predictable. They deny responsibility. They double down on rhetoric. They sanctify the victim and absolve themselves. There is no reckoning with the fact that they sent an unprepared civilian into a confrontation with armed federal agents while assuring her—implicitly or explicitly—that she would be safe.

This is not compassion. It is exploitation dressed up as solidarity.

If progressive movements genuinely cared about the people they mobilize, they would stop pretending street activism is consequence-free and a $10 high visibility vest is bulletproof. They would stop inventing titles that suggest immunity. They would stop encouraging civilians to interfere in law-enforcement actions they neither understand nor control.

Most of all, they would stop lying.

Renée Good’s death should not be mythologized. It should be interrogated—not to excuse violence, but to expose the moral cowardice of leaders who radicalize rhetoric, outsource risk, and then feign shock when reality intrudes.

Until that happens, more people will be sent forward believing they are protected by virtue alone.

And some of them will not come home.

Monday Music "Open Sesame" By Kool and The Gang

 

I am continuing my string of songs from the 70's as part of my "Monday Music", the Disco stuff because I know that this is "Old NFO's" favorite genre. (Yes I can hear him hissing all the way back in GA, lol) 

  Back in 1977/1978 I was one of the producers of our 6 grade play and it was based on historical events, and I used several songs from the sound Track from Saturday Night Fever in the Play and one of the songs I used was "Open Sesame" from Kool and the Gang.  I went with a visual story with music to back it up.  I was told later on I raised the bar on subsequent productions.   I was never told "I couldn't" so I went with my gut and it went well.  I sometimes wonder if my life would be different if I had pursued that avenue instead of the direction that my life has taken.  Naa I am happy with my life that I have now with no regrets.  I went with a 2fer from Kool and the Gang, one song from the 1970's and one song from the 1980's...There is symmetry there, LOL


Open Sesame is the eighth studio album by the funk band Kool & the Gang, released in 1976. The album yielded the hit title track, "Open Sesame", which achieved some success, first as a top ten R&B single, then later as part of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. "Super Band" also reached the R&B top twenty. The album was the second of two albums released by the band in 1976.

 I couldn't find out any real information on this song except it was in "Saturday Night Fever and it was at the height of the "Disco Movement.".   I do like the sheer pageantry of the video's This was before the advent of "Professional" video's and music video's varied depending if the band was willing to make a video clip.

Emergency is the sixteenth studio album by the American band Kool & the Gang, released in 1984. It ultimately became the group's biggest selling career album, earning Double Platinum status in America, Platinum in Canada, and Silver in the UK.

The album produced four US top 20 hit singles including "Fresh" (US #9); "Misled" (US #10); the title track "Emergency" (US #18); and the album's biggest hit, the million-selling "Cherish" (US #2). "Fresh", "Misled", and "Cherish" also cracked the top 40 in the UK reaching #11, #28, and #4 respectively while "Emergency" only reached #50 in that country.

 "Misled"

"We Dodged a Bullet"

 

I'm working a lot of.......You guessed it.....but I'm tired.

We got lucky, if Harris/Walz were successful in getting into the White house, what would a year with those feckless clowns look like?

   I believed that we dodged a bullet both times.  I have no issues voting for a women, but the Donks keep nominating either a totally corrupt one or a totally inept one.

I saw this from Kurt Schlichter, on Townhall.com  I also follow him on twitter and on Amazon.

AP Photo/Cliff Owen

Let’s start our 2026 by imagining the worst-case scenario – that Donald Trump was somehow beaten by that drunken trollop in 2024. Where would we be right now? Well, we’d be in a very different country, and many of us might very well be in cells. You’ve got a lot of black-pilling from people on our side that not enough people have been arrested, or the administration is moving too slowly on their particular obsession, or that everything isn’t perfect, which means everything is wrong. There’s some truth to that, because we can always do better, but we cannot forget that divine Providence has smiled upon us. We didn’t dodge a bullet. We dodged an 18-inch shell from the USS Kamala.

We got so damn lucky, and even as we continue to press the Republicans to do more, more, more, and more faster, faster, faster, and faster, we should never forget that.

If that clinical moron had won the presidency, she probably would’ve won the House, too. So, let’s assume we kept the Senate, and let’s assume we also kept the same set of tofu-spined senators who have only been kept in line by the unholy terror Donald Trump wields upon them like a whip and a chair. With him out of the picture – more about how he’d be out of the picture in federal prison for a decade or so below – these losers would’ve been encouraged to let their failure flag fly. It would be nerds gone wild as helpful Republicans would reach across the aisle to help Democrats complete their conversion of America into communist chaos. And as they did, those useless GOP collaborators would tell themselves that they were the adults in the room, but more on Epstein later.

Donald Trump shut down the border on day one. The exact opposite would’ve happened if he had lost. Instead of a couple of million aliens being self-deported or having deportation thrust upon them, we would have added three, four, or even more millions more. As you recall, the Democrat and GOP traitor party line was that it was absolutely impossible to close down the border except by signing onto Senator Jiminy Lankford’s magic beans deal that would lock in huge rates of Third World peasant immigration forever. And we wouldn’t have even gotten the magic beans under Kamala. She would have laid out the welcome mat and thrown the doors back open as part of Operation Great Replacement. You don’t need to struggle to guess who would be the ones being replaced.

Up in Minnesota, the Learing Centers would have vastly expanded. One of Kamala Harris’s promises was to take this childcare scam and increase it exponentially. Remember that the Democrats aren’t against fraud. That’s like J.B. Pritzker being against carbohydrates or Tim Walz being against show tunes. And forget DOGE. Every transsexual Ecuadorian with a mime troupe and a bank account would still be getting USAID money. Plus, you would still be subsidizing the Volvo Bolsheviks’ NPR habit. And the Green New Deal? Stacy Abrams would have gotten her $2 billion, but that probably wouldn’t have stopped her from being appointed as the new FBI director (and being confirmed with invertebrate Republican votes). After all, she checks all the boxes – she’s not a person of pallor, she’s female (though, sadly, she was apparently born that way), she’s a communist, and she’s fat. The entire administration would be filled with DEI people who lucked into their jobs by winning the intersectional bingo game. A Kamala Harris administration would have been a jobs program for dumb people who are as loud as they are mediocre.

What would the Heels-in-the-Air administration be doing? Not releasing the Epstein files, because nobody would care. There would be nothing in it for lol-bertarian Thomas Massie, so that he wouldn’t have stuck Republicans in the back with it – he would have found something else to stick Republicans in the back with. Of course, the Democrats weren’t going to release it for the same reason they didn’t release it when Joe Biden didn’t release it – there’s nothing in there that trashes Trump, though there’s a lot in there that trashes Democrats.

What they would be doing is prosecuting Republicans, and not a little bit. All the J6 defendants whose civil rights were treated like an Insane Clown Posse concert porta-potty after a Juggalo chili cook-off would still be rotting in prison for the crime of actually showing up in the People’s House thinking they had rights. But the real story would be Donald Trump. He would absolutely be convicted in Washington by a jury that voted 95% against him and judges that voted 100% against him on the charges that, like in New York, had never been filed against anybody else before. The New York judge would’ve sent him to prison. The Atlanta thing would still be going on, and the federal jury would’ve convicted him, though he was absolutely being framed. They would’ve sent him to federal prison, his crime being that he beat the Democrat establishment and dared to try to give voice to the useful and patriotic half of America.

And they would not have stopped with the ex-president. All of us who refused to comply would be targets. The framing would’ve gone into high gear and spread to other Republicans. Everybody and his brother with an (R) after his name, except for the compliant collaborators, would have been charged with seditious conspiracy for pointing out an obviously fraudulent election, then dragged in front of the corrupt DC bench and juries to be framed. 

Their goal would be to eliminate any possibility of an effective Republican Party and an effective resistance, and the shameful thing is that some members of the GOP would be eager to help. After all, while we have cleaned up our roster, too many Republican elected officials are much more comfortable taking scraps from the table from their Democrat masters than actually standing up and fighting back against the destruction of our country.

The destruction of our country would’ve continued apace. Under Trump, the amazing Harmeet Dhillon has personally led the 180° turn by the Department of Justice in the prosecution of civil rights violations by actually recognizing that it is wrong to violate the rights of white Americans and males. The heart of wokeness is barely beating now; if Harris had won, it would’ve gotten 10 cc of epinephrine stat and been shocked with the defibrillator paddles. Recently, JD Vance noted that Americans no longer have to apologize for being white; under the venomous race communist government of Kamala Harris, you would’ve had to plead “not guilty” for your pale perfidy.

Make no mistake. They would’ve been coming for your guns, and they would’ve been coming for your boy’s penis, as perverted deviants would have made bizarre, transsexual indoctrination mandatory and its criticism forbidden. Say goodbye to the right to say what you think. Look at Europe and how they’re arresting people for the crime of speaking. Have you noticed how none of Kamala’s friends are standing up for free speech today? That’s because they’re against it. They actively believe it would be a good thing if they could toss you in jail for saying stuff, and they absolutely would, given the opportunity. Oh, they would’ve called it “hate speech” or “misinformation” or labeled it some other way to make their tyranny seem benign, but we know their game. It’s the same game dictators always play. They want you disarmed, disenfranchised, and disinclined even to attempt to exercise what had formerly been your right to participate in your own governance.

Don’t even get me started on what they’d be doing to your church. They would not have been satisfied with taking away its nonprofit status. They would’ve actively interfered with the teachings, forcing the faithful to adopt the moral paradigm of some SSRI-ridden, Chardonnay-gulping wine woman who reads books with names like “Where the Sea Urchin Dreams of Me Abandoning My Family So I Can Find Myself.”

Maduro would still be in power, and the Delta Force would be 50% Muslim transwomen of color who are differently abled and fat. Our military would still be in a recruiting crisis, as normal people would refuse to dive headfirst into a bubbling cauldron of social pathologies. Our generals would look like they belonged in a Columbia faculty lounge as they continued their record of zero major wars won unequivocally in the prior 30 years. If Putin hadn’t already won the Ukraine War, he certainly would be closing in on it. Europe would get a free pass on carrying its weight, just like it got for 80 years until Trump came along and told them to stop being freeloaders. Iran would still have its nukes. Drug boats would still be doing their Miami Vice act, heading north unmolested. Your kids would still be dying from fentanyl at record rates.

As for Israel, Harris would’ve abandoned it. It’s just too Jewish for her coalition. Half the Democrat Party denies the Holocaust anyway, so denying a new one would barely be a stretch. At least Candace Owens would have something to be happy about.

And yes, conservative figures would still be murdered. After all, it would be hard to frame them all, so the compliant regime media would eagerly villainize them so that the perverted weirdos who have gone on their killing sprees would accelerate the process under a Harris administration, knowing that a Department of Justice under Leticia James would’ve been as eager to find the killers of conservatives as Biden’s was to find the RNC/DNC bomber.

That’s all horrific, but here comes the scary part. America would never go down without a fight. I write about it in my new novel, Panama Red, where America has broken into red and blue halves after the left pushes way too far, way too hard, and way too fast. That’s the thing about the left – they don’t understand human nature, they’re greedy, and, above all, they’re ahistorical and stupid. They don’t understand what all these things I’ve discussed would do. They believe that our society is a Jenga tower from which they can pull blocks endlessly, and yet it will somehow still stand erect. They think that the status quo will endure even as they change key elements of the paradigm. They don’t understand that what we have here is a system with duties and obligations, and if you decide that you’re not going to honor your obligations or duties, you don’t get a free pass to enjoy the fruits of the system. The system collapses. It doesn’t just keep functioning as everybody goes along, like you didn’t change anything. 

Would we have resistance? Yes, there would be political resistance in the alternative media and at the ballot box, which they would attempt to suppress using a weaponized federal government because that’s how communists keep power. But Americans are an ornery people, not a neutered continent of eunuchs whose ancestors weren’t man enough to jump on a ship sailing west. The resistance would start being political, but as the Democrats redacted more and more of our Constitution in an effort to keep power in perpetuity, the resistance would rise, and their repression would rise in response. Would we be in a civil war one year on? No, but we would sure as hell be headed there.

But it’s not going to happen, so stop your doomin’. 

The good Lord apparently looks after drunks and Americans, because the election of Donald Trump saved our country as we know it. Now, don’t quit complaining and whining. Being loud and annoying is important. You’ve got to keep the pressure on, because there are a lot of Republicans who would be happy to glide along until that mean Donald Trump goes away and they can get back to the business of walking around like a bunch of puffed-up popinjays being addressed as “Congressman” and “Senator” instead of actually having to do things and endure the Washington Post being mean to them. Never stop demanding more. Never quit pointing out bad ideas and the slow-walking of important reforms. Just understand the reality of the situation, that everything that we want can’t happen all at once. We’ve got three more glorious years to go, and you should be on your knees thanking God for it.

"Tragedy And Reality"

I saw from some of her social media presence that she touted herself as a ""ICE Defense Warrior", and apparently word on the street is that her car made appearance in several cities where harrassment of ICE agents and operations happened.  Well the problem is that these liberals forget that ICE ARE Police officers at the same level as the FBI, yes Virginia they can arrest you on certain statutes like interference and a few other things.  The Legacy media pushed " Legal Observer" angle like that gives her some special status, but it doesn't.  These *AWFUL* "Affluant White Liberal Women" are full of entitlement and believe that they are untouchable and free of consequence.  Well Ms.Good found out that FAFO is a thing.  And the ICE Officer had to react in a split second and you have all these "aaaactivist" and monday morning quarterbacks second guessing his decision, and this is the 2nd time he was put in this position, according to the VEEP  JD Vance, the Officer collected 33 stitches earlier from getting hit from another car from another incident from a "legal Observer".   

      The DOJ needs to find out his these professional protestors are getting paid, and get their intelligence to interfere with operations.  Kill the money, you kill the interference.    Activist rarely work for free unless they are independently wealthy, and if they are, good, let them use their own money,

 

I Clipped this from "Townhall.com"

AP Photo/Tom Baker

Renee Good died on Wednesday in Minneapolis. She had been attempting to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents engaged in federal law enforcement activities. Along with other protesters, Good involved herself in what federal agents were doing and used her car to block them. Confronted by federal agents, Good accelerated with an agent in front of her car. He pulled his gun, she accelerated and struck him, he opened fire and shot her. She died.

Watching the video footage, it is clear she accelerated with an agent directly in front of her car and struck him. Close observers noted her front wheel appeared to be turned, so not intending to hit the agent. The agent who shot her was not looking down to try to see her tire. The car came toward him on an icy, slippery road. He pulled his gun. She kept accelerating. He fired.

The Democratic Party sent out a tweet that federal agents had murdered an American citizen. The agent, in a very tense situation, operated in self-defense. The whole thing is tragic. Good is neither a hero nor a martyr. She tried to obstruct a federal operation. When confronted, she tried to flee the scene, hitting an officer who drew his gun and shot her.

For four years, Americans witnessed an overrun southern border. Democrats repeatedly denied there was a problem. They falsely claimed the border was secure. Voters decided to vote for President Donald Trump, a man whose supporters had stormed the U.S. Capitol just a few years before, because the voters decided Trump was preferable to the status quo.

Progressives did not handle that rejection well. Despite Mr. Trump winning the popular vote, progressives swung into action to not just obstruct every presidential initiative, but to harass federal agents and protect the very illegal aliens that most Americans want ejected from the country.

Going back to 2019, the local Minnesota press has documented a massive welfare fraud operation. Eighty-nine percent of those indicted are from a Somali community that has failed to assimilate into the United States. In 2019, the Minneapolis Fox affiliate reported Minnesota welfare money was being used to fund Islamic terror. Just a few weeks ago, another report came out documenting that Somali fraud in Minnesota had flowed to an Islamic terror group in Somalia.

Governor Tim Walz has decided not to run for reelection, in part because of the scandal. The fraud, which some estimates put at several billion dollars, happened on his watch. Walz has insisted there is no scandal and it is all racism. Walz and Jacob Frey, the Minneapolis Mayor, both insist federal agents are acting as a Gestapo.

The incendiary rhetoric from Democratic politicians fired up progressive activists. ICE agents have been fired upon. In Texas, several illegal aliens were killed when a progressive activist fired at ICE agents. ICE agents have been hit by cars, assaulted, and vilified for trying to clean up the mess created by Democrats.

Progressive activists have turned violent, interfered, and now one has been killed. We cannot observe this tragedy without acknowledging not just the incendiary rhetoric of the Left, but also the repeated assassination attempts on federal agents. It is a tragedy that Ms. Good is dead and leaves behind a son whose father died a few years ago. But Ms. Good should not have been attempting to obstruct ICE agents. She should not have used her car as a barricade. She should not have ignored the ICE agents. She should not have struck an ICE agent with her vehicle.

The ICE agents are there because Democrats have allowed an illegal alien problem to fester. They are vilified by progressive politicians and have been targeted by progressive activists. Ms. Good would be alive today except she believed the hysteria of people like Tim Walz. She substituted politics for religion and decided to involve herself in political protest and opposition. She is now dead because of it.

This is a tragedy. It was avoidable. But Democrats have grown more shrill and hysterical since she died. There will be more attacks on ICE agents, all of whom are simply doing the job of deporting those the Democrats let flood the country.