Chicago Is the Frontline in the Battle for American Freedom

Operation Midway Blitz, a name that conjures Chicago Bears football, is the Trump Administration’s cynical branding of what can only be described as escalating government violence by ICE and other federal agents in Chicago. One man is already dead. Many others have been injured. Homes have been ransacked; American citizens detained. Every good person should condemn this unprovoked and cruel attack on an American city. And every American should cheer on the people of Chicago who are now the front line in the battle for American freedom.

Federal troops, in an excessive show of force now routinely show up for photo ops at our tourist attractions, and for battle in our neighborhoods. They come with armored vehicles, boats, drones, Black Hawk and conventional helicopters, tactical body armor, pepper spray, tear gas, rubber bullets, snipers and overwatch teams, flashbang grenades, as well as conventional sidearms and rifles. They come prepared for war.

On the night of September 29 to 30, using military helicopters, and tactical gear, ICE and FBI agents stormed an apartment building in the South Shore Neighborhood. According to the Chicago Sun Times:

Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked, residents and witnesses said. Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in the five-story building, and U.S. citizens were among those detained for hours.