Free Palestine Protest in Pensacola, November 29, 2025
Who are these people protesting on Palestine’s behalf when a radicalized Muslim just killed an American soldier two days before?
I spent some time in Pensacola visiting my son and his family. When there are three kids ages three and under, there isn’t much time for scrolling through social media or reading favorite news sites, but one would have to be a hermit not to have heard the tragic news of the two National Guardsmen shot in D.C. by a radicalized Afghan brought over in the 2021 disorganized exit from Afghanistan. One of the guardsmen has senselessly lost her life, and the other one is clinging to life.
The attack was planned for at least weeks. The killer drove across the country, leaving his wife and five children behind in Washington state, so that he could murder Americans he did not know, randomly selected because they were an easy target and a symbol of American power and our military.
In the wake of it all, President Trump said he “will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover.”
Refugees from 19 countries will be affected. The Hill reports that:
The administration placed immigration from Afghanistan on an indefinite pause “pending further review of security and vetting protocols,” according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Trump also ordered a review the cases of Afghans who entered the country under “Operation Allies Welcome” and following the withdrawal and the State Department halted all visas for the nation.
“We must now reexamine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden,” Trump said Wednesday from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. “And we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here or add benefit to our country.”
USCIS has also been instructed to reexamine green cards linked to 19 countries following the shooting.
Americans are getting an education, again, on yet another topic they had little information on before. Usual and standard procedures for allowing those seeking asylum or refugee status, or who are considered for a “Special Immigrant VISA” (SIV) were abandoned under the Biden administration.
It was only a matter of time before a tragedy like this occurred. Republican leaders recognized the lack of vetting, and an Inspector General report said so just a year ago.
On October 29, 2024, Senator Chuck Grassley wrote a memo to Biden’s DHS Secretary Mayorkas referencing an OIG report stating:
On June 7, 2024, the DHS OIG issued a report entitled, DHS Needs to Improve Its Screening and Vetting of Asylum Seekers and Noncitizens Applying for Admission into the United States. DHS OIG found DHS technology and procedures “were not fully effective to screen and vet” noncitizens and asylum seekers applying for admission into the United States. Without any change, DHS OIG stated DHS is at “risk of admitting dangerous persons into the country or enabling asylum seekers who may pose significant threats to public safety and national security.”
It typically takes years to properly investigate the backgrounds of people granted asylum, refugee status, or SIV status, and that process usually happens in a foreign country. While the alleged DC killer apparently worked with US forces in Afghanistan, it doesn’t mean he was or should have been eligible to come to America.
In response, every American should be asking just what the hell is going on in our government.
Numerous examples of government incompetence should be a tipping point in who voters elect and what demands we make of those in charge.
Some recent big failures include:
- Over 10 million unvetted illegal aliens from nearly every country in the world have been let into the U.S., and hundreds of billions have been spent to support them
- Horrific random crimes, including the stabbing of Iryna Zarutska in North Carolina and the setting on fire of Bethany Magee in Chicago, both done on public transit systems by habitual violent criminals.
- In January of this year, the fire burned homes in California due to a multitude of government missteps, from failure to clear underbrush to failure to have fire protection systems ready.
- Illegal commercial truck drivers are endangering and killing Americans on roads because corrupt people give them driver’s licenses. The cartels are in on it, too.
- Somali Muslims are ripping off American taxpayers through Medicaid and NGO fraud
Then there are the normal, everyday incompetence, malfeasance, un-American, and just plain stupid actions by the government that Americans tolerate.
Those would be items like schools that don’t educate the majority of students, outrageously expensive higher education, the renewal of the Cook County basic income program that gives $500 stipends to thousands to spend on whatever they want, and millions for wind and solar that can’t deliver reliable power.
What else these examples tell you is that the social compact among citizens and those who reside in the freest, most generous country in the world is broken.
The social compact between citizens stretches back to the Mayflower Compact, a brief agreement on governance among those who landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620 to ensure they could survive the struggles of building a life in a new world with only themselves to depend on. Each of them would have to work together just to survive.
The heart of the Mayflower Compact states.
Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith, and the honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia; do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another; covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
There’s no similar shared compact today in America. It was broken a long time ago, beginning with FDR’s New Deal.
Meanwhile, the Afghan national who murdered the West Virginia National Guardsman and wounded another is now thought to have become radicalized in the U.S., Newsmax reported today that:
“U.S. authorities believe the Afghan immigrant accused of ambushing National Guard members in Washington, D.C., was not radicalized until after he came to the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Sunday.
Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and ABC’s “This Week,” Noem said authorities think that alleged shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal was already living in Washington state when he became radicalized. Investigators are seeking more information from family members and others, Noem said.”
Again, it’s easy to come and survive in America without having to assimilate or worry about providing basic needs for your family.
It is easy to be a miscreant, deviant, or moron in America. The very large safety net and the lack of oversight by government officials allow terrible public policy to persist. And even when rational rules are put in place, government officials get away with ignoring those rules, just like they did with all the immigration rules that were violated under Biden.
We’ve become a very soft society.
The protests against ICE, the liberal outrage when commonsense rule changes are made to SNAP benefits, and the repeal of COVID-era Obamacare subsidies that shut down the government show how far we’ve come from our founding.
It may seem small compared to the list above, but Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s change to Christkindlmarket capacity is another example of irrational government policy.
Travel and Leisure magazine points out that Chicago’s Christmas market is one of the best in America,
“You don’t have to fly halfway around the world to experience an authentic European Christmas market. Just head to Chicago for a festive holiday escape to Bavaria, complete with warm pretzels, delicious bratwurst, and steaming mugs of mulled wine. Chicago is home to Christkindlmarket, one of the most authentic European-style Christmas markets in North America.”
Instead of capitalizing on the success of the Market by expanding the space, Chicago officials decreased the capacity limit of the market by 50%.
FOX 32 noted, Chicago’s popular holiday market will now be capped at 1,553 visitors at a time — less than half the COVID-19 pandemic limit of 3,494 people permitted in 2021 with social distancing, according to organizers.
From CBS News:
Wolfgang Poennighaus has been a vendor for 22 years.
Poenninghaus said business is down 40% so far this year at Christkindl market, because of new capacity limits at Daley Plaza.
Christkindlmarket organizers said the city capped capacity to just over 1,500 people.
Organizers claimed the city made the change based on a new interpretation of Chicago’s municipal code, informing vendors just 12 hours before opening day of the new capacity limit.
“Even with social distancing during COVID, our capacity limits were more than double what they are now, as of last week,” Tomkins said.
Instead of capitalizing on the success of the Market by expanding the space, Chicago officials decreased the capacity limit of the market by 50%.
FOX 32 noted, Chicago’s popular holiday market will now be capped at 1,553 visitors at a time — less than half the COVID-19 pandemic limit of 3,494 people permitted in 2021 with social distancing, according to organizers.
From CBS News:
Wolfgang Poennighaus has been a vendor for 22 years.
Poenninghaus said business is down 40% so far this year at Christkindl market, because of new capacity limits at Daley Plaza.
Christkindlmarket organizers said the city capped capacity to just over 1,500 people.
Organizers claimed the city made the change based on a new interpretation of Chicago’s municipal code, informing vendors just 12 hours before opening day of the new capacity limit.
“Even with social distancing during COVID, our capacity limits were more than double what they are now, as of last week,” Tomkins said.