Hundreds protest in Minneapolis after ICE officer kills Renee Nicole Macklin Good

It has happened again. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, an unarmed civilian has been struck down by the authorities. In a place still trying to sort out what happened to the slain George Floyd, it is now a time for direct action against not the police, but ICE.

Renee Nicole Good perished by the hands of the ICE agent who shot three times into her vehicle. In the video, it is clear that Good did not weaponize her vehicle. She simply attempted to get away from the scene.

But with protesters, it’s like she was some kind of talking point or suggestion beyond her humanity. They just want to stunt and front in the sight of cameras and posts on social media the tired, untrue, and irrational idea in most of these contexts: “No justice, no peace!”

But these are supposed to be loving Christians, right? They’re supposed to show grace or mercy or at least fall down to their knees and beg the unknown and unknowable for forgiveness and to forget about the whole thing, right?

The tragic scene is what happens in films where people get gunned down and the community gathers round with cards, candles, and teddy bears.

Why don’t these folks take on the idea of what Jesus of Nazareth pronounced in the Sermon on the Mount? You’re supposed to bless those who do harm to you or a value of yours. Where is this in these actions?

What’s more difficult to acknowledge is the idea that this whole faith-based community is in opposition to police, anyway. The way this story is evolving is quite simple. In the time that Good had perished to the first tear dropped in her remembrance, where were all the Christians to say, “Oh, it was just her time and the ICE agent helped guide her into heaven.”

Why are these questions never asked seriously? People often say “everything happens for a reason.” How? By what means do actions and happenings just occur for some special, preordained, set explanation?

Instead, the ideal should reflect reality. “Every human action ought to be guided by reason.”

With the differences between the cultural lines, most people can at least agree on mysticism, collectivism, and altruism.

God has already been described here. The group has also been the problem as well. Most folks only think of individuals as dead bodies. In life, you’re just an amalgamation of others. Somehow in death, the individual is elevated.

Collectivists have such a rough go with reality because they don’t realize the truth about the individuation of human beings and their minds. Groups can be put together if they agree on principles and can disagree on other aspects.

To put together the amount of people across the Earth who have taken up the mantle for being second-handed in their endeavors. To break free from the herd only makes it more difficult for the individuals to become their own person and exact their ideals in their own life.

And altruism…this ugly vicious doctrine is more pernicious and insidious than both the mystical and the collective. The protesters in the Good case will have their aversions to the police but still harbor feelings of what the ICE agent should experience by way of possible punishment.

They might say there’s a chance to forget about this case, but they’re right now fighting with that famous refrain. Altruism is what prevents them from looking at facts and reality over feelings and whims.

Altruism has nothing to do with being good or showing compassion, which these faithful people should show based on their ideology.

Everything these people represent is an antithesis to their corrupt ideals and the statements they make.