Did The Whistles Kill Alex Pretti?
When you watch the videos, close your eyes and just use your ears. Listen to the whistles. Lots, and lots, and lots of whistles. And car horns. Now open your eyes and see the insurgents surrounding the agents and blowing their whistles almost directly in their ears. But there is a question.
Why?
Why are the whistles a part of the insurgent playbook?
The answer is simple. They know that the whistles create an atmosphere of chaos and confusion, that they interrupt communications and the coordination of efforts by the agents. They aren’t merely a tool to call people to where the agents are.
The woman shoved on her ass in the Pretti video? I posted a video that showed the long run-up to that moment. That woman and a partner getting within three feet of an agent and blowing their whistles.
In Pretti’s case, they worked according to plan. A central question arising is why, once an agent grabbed Pretti’s gun, did the others not know he was disarmed? I’ll venture an educated guess from all the video to be seen thus far.
One can hear agents saying “Gun!” One can also hear the loud, shrill whistles right next to the scrum, and the blaring of car horns. The disarming and the first shot were less than a second apart, and then it was all over. So I suspect that a determinative factor in all of this will be the insurgents’ car horns and whistles impeding the clarity of communication in the midst of a violent struggle that Pretti precipitated and made deadly as he reached in the direction of his holster.
They wanted to impede communication, and it appears that they succeeded. So why pity them? Where is such a well-orchestrated insurgency to impede the warrant squads in Minneapolis that arrest American citizens for violent crimes?
I’ve gotten quite a bit of pushback from Catholics questioning my faith and spirituality in the midst of this. So let me save people from further inquiry. Many of the criminal illegals being sought are involved with cartels sex-trafficking girls and women. I spent seven years working with teen girls running away from prostitution at Covenant House in Times Square during the 1980’s. I’ve buried three Boy Scouts who died from the poison these bastards are importing and distributing.
The criminals being sought by ICE are vermin. Rapists, murderers, traffickers, pushers. How could anyone in their right mind oppose the arrest and deportation of these people? Yeah, I hope they find Jesus in prison, but I elected Trump to see to the arrest and deportation part. There are plenty of prison chaplains around the world to do the rest.
If you’ve never sat with a kid hollowed out by prostitution, tried to help a kid get clean and stay clean, perhaps a family member or friend’s kid, then I don’t suppose you can fully understand how deeply many like me feel about this, and the disgust felt at an insurgency that is well-organized, highly trained, and well-funded. When you give your life attempting to shield sex-traffickers and pushers from justice, that’s about as bad as it gets.
And the old chestnut about false arrest and imprisonment… that happens every single day in the course of ordinary police work in every city. The system generally does a good job at sussing it all out, with rare cases of miscarriage of justice. There are attorneys and courts, and when law-enforcement oversteps, the courts do a mighty good job of correcting the abuse.
But the answer to a one in ten thousand false arrest is not to paralyze the entire system, not to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
That was Pretti’s mistake, and his fellow travelers created the disruption they were trained to create, and that disruption, in a split second, may very well have cost him his life.
