<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0Okj1I_1H3j1eTm00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0Okj1I_1H3j1eTm00" width="1280" height="890" ><div style="position:relative;width:100%; height:0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NkfzMoqD_lQ?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" style="width:100%; height:100%;top:0; left:0; position:absolute"></iframe></div><p><b>(Opinion)</b> They came to smash windows, brutalize members of groups they scapegoat for the nation’s woes, haul them away to cruel detention camps, set the stage for mass round-ups.</p><p>That’s what mobs did in Germany in 1938 in the violent Kristallnacht window-smashing pogrom that set the stage for the Holocaust.</p><p>We hold events every year so we won’t forget what happened and repeat the past. We held one such event last Sunday to mark the anniversary.</p><p>Meanwhile, a new mob of masked lawless scapegoating xenophobes continued smashing windows in New Haven this week to remind us … that we need to be reminded. In hopes that we can prevent history from not just echoing but repeating itself.</p><p>These lawless storm troopers — federal Immigration and Customer Enforcement (ICE) agents — are the violent JV wannabe-cops pressed into action by the Trump administration to round up immigrants and often without due process send them to brutal detention camps (especially abroad) while sowing mass fear in the process. (Check out this guy as an example of whom they’re unleashing on the public to conduct “law enforcement.”) All in the name of promoting a racial-purity vision of the country.</p><p>ICE used three SUVs to box in a vehicle on State Street in which an 18-year-old was riding after appearing in court to answer to a felony charge. They smashed a window (not the first time) and sent the young man’s father to the hospital.</p><p>Supporters of these incidents argue that it’s fair to deport undocumented immigrants who commit felonies. But in this country we still claim to follow the rule of law — meaning you’re innocent until proven guilty. (The 18-year-old in this case has been charged with, not convicted of, committing a crime.) By intimidating people into not showing up for court dates (aka following the law), tactics like this week’s State Street smash-and-grab send the signal that in fact the federal government feels no need to respect the rule of law. They’re prowling our streets not to enforce the law. They’re prowling our streets to provoke brawls and sow terror.</p><p>This is the latest indication that the Trump administration is reacting to a nationwide rejection of its brutal ICE tactics (even by voters who otherwise support stepped-up immigration enforcement) in the Nov. 3 elections by doubling down on them. President Trump elevated the architect of that policy, Stephen Miller, to his chief of staff position. As we saw on State Street, the nationwide Nov. 3 rejection of Trump administration policies may only lead to the thugs dialing up the volume.</p><p>Those are among the takes on local news headlines in the latest opinionated vlog news summary from the Independent assignment desk — er, compost heap. Click on the above video to watch it.</p><p>Reminder: As always, this video represents the opinions of one person, not the Independent itself.</p></div></body>

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(Opinion) They came to smash windows, brutalize members of groups they scapegoat for the nation’s woes, haul them away to cruel detention camps, set the stage for mass round-ups. That’s what mobs did in Germany in 1938 in the violent Kristallnacht window-smashing pogrom that set the stage for the...

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