“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.”

Frederick Douglass



Imagine this:

A group of heavily armed state agents kicks down the door of a private home before dawn. The mother is dragged onto the front lawn in her underwear, her daughters beside her, trembling and half-naked. There’s no time to explain, no moment to gather dignity, no hearing, no defense. Their phones, their laptops, their cash—all confiscated. When the agents leave, they offer no apology, no explanation, and no help. The family is left humiliated, violated, and stranded.

You’d be forgiven for thinking this was a story from Stalin’s Russia or Hitler’s Germany. A midnight knock. Innocents accused. Property seized. Families shattered. You’d be forgiven, but you’d be wrong.

This happened in the United States of America, in Oklahoma City, in April 2025, under the thug leadership of Donald J. Trump and his authoritarian goon squad.

The woman’s name is Marisa. She’s a U.S. citizen. Her daughters are U.S. citizens. They had recently moved from Maryland. They committed no crime. They weren’t even connected to the people named in the search warrant, people who didn’t live there and had no relation to the family. The agents- ICE, FBI, and U.S. Marshals- simply stormed in, stripped Marisa and her young daughters (all U.S. citizens) of their rights, their safety, and their humanity.

They ransacked the home. They called everything “evidence.” They stole the family’s phones, laptops, and life savings. Agents pointed guns at them and questioned their citizenship status. When Marisa indicated she was a citizen, she was ignored. When Marisa pleaded with the agents, told them she had no way now to buy food or gas for her children, she was met with the casual indifference of a man who thinks violence is just paperwork: “It was a little rough this morning,” a senior ICE supervisor at the scene said.

A little rough.

This is what tyranny looks like: not in black uniforms with swastikas, but in windbreakers marked ICE. Not sneakily out of sight, but with the confident entitlement of bureaucrats who believe the law is whatever they say it is today. No trial. No oversight. No consequences. Just state-sanctioned terror.

This is not an isolated incident. It is a metastasizing cancer. In the name of immigration enforcement and “law and order,” Trump’s regime has deputized a domestic secret police. They raid homes like idiot stormtroopers, now with the wrong address, the wrong family, the wrong everything—but with exactly the kind of authoritarian impunity we fought world wars to stop.

Where is the apology? Nowhere. Not a single comment from anyone responsible.

Where is the restitution? Still waiting.

Where is the statement from ICE? Silent.

Where is the accountability from the Trump administration? As always, hiding behind slogans and lies.

Our new Gestapo stole this family’s dignity and then walked away like it was nothing. This is the America we now live in, where being a citizen no longer guarantees safety from the state. The Constitution means nothing to these people. Due process is an ignored and ridiculed. This isn’t a war on “illegals”, this is a war on all of us.

They stole this family’s dignity and left them barefoot on their own lawn, like war refugees in their own goddamn country. This isn’t a policy failure, it’s a moral collapse engineered by men too small to wield power gracefully, but too cruel to give it up.

And what do we do? We write sternly worded essays and letters. We shake our heads. We protest by hashtag.

Enough.

Don’t tell me to vote harder. Don’t tell me to wait for a press release. Tell me what you’re going to do when agents with the wrong name and the wrong address and the wrong fucking values show up again. Because they will.

Tell me you’re ready to drag this rotting, bootlicking infrastructure of unaccountable power into the light and burn it clean.

Tell me you still give a damn about the words in the Constitution, or at least about the people it’s supposed to protect.

Because the federal government now makes ignorant and terrible mistakes and spins them as policy. If there’s no justice for Marisa, no consequences for these jackbooted thugs who shattered her family’s sense of safety, then this nation deserves every ounce of unrest that comes next.