Dear Ms. Maddow (part two)

Dear Ms. Maddow,

I saw your show last night. I am not a regular. To be honest, I only watch your network when I think it might offer an opportunity for schadenfreude. Last night, however, I was genuinely curious about what you would say about the unraveling of the hoax I mentioned in my earlier letter. I was not expecting to be pleasantly surprised, but I harbored a small, fleeting spark of hope.

Alas, the unraveling of the Russia Russia Russia hoax was not a topic discussed on your show.

The topic of your long opening monologue was summarized by the graphic behind you as IT’S NOT COMING. IT’S HERE. The “it” being a fascist dictatorship taking over the USA.

The principal evidence of this dictatorship being, in your words, a secret police force and concentration camps.

I would like to make a couple of points.

First, ICE is not secret. Everyone knows ICE exists, and everyone knows what they do, and what they don’t do. Yes, they often wear masks, but they also wear uniforms that say ICE in big, bold letters. Anyone arrested knows exactly who is doing the arresting.

You never defined the term “secret police.” If I may, I would suggest a couple features. One, they would be outside the established legal system. There would be no legal authority for their actions. There would be no judicial review of their actions. Ms. Maddow, there is nothing illegal about ICE. Their mandate is found in statutes passed by Congress. Everything they do is subject to judicial review.

Two, my notion of a secret police force is that they would act against the political enemies of the dictator. Illegal immigrants are not political enemies of anyone. Ms. Maddow, you are a proud political enemy of President Trump, as is everyone who works for your employer. Do you fear ICE? Really?

Ms. Maddow, I don’t wish to alarm you, but my personal test for knowing “IT’S HERE” would be your own sudden disappearance. Please be at ease, I place the odds of that happening at zero.

As for concentration camps, well, they all have one thing in common. Once in, you don’t get to leave. Without exception, anyone in ICE detention can leave whenever they want. The only requirement is that they agree to return to their home country. I know that sounds harsh to you. But, either that is the rule, or we have open borders. There is no other choice. That is what having a border means.

In violation of federal law, the Biden administration admitted roughly ten million unvetted immigrants into the country. The Trump administration’s effort to remedy Biden’s malfeasance by deporting these illegal migrants is not contrary to the law. It is pursuant to law. When it comes to immigration policy, “IT” (being lawlessness) was here under Biden. IT has left town.

The central event of your monologue was the apprehension of a Purdue undergrad here legally on a long-term visa. As told by you, it was indeed upsetting. (You even got emotional a couple times. It was touching.) And, if this were a widespread pattern of misconduct, and if this particular mistake is not soon rectified, then a case can be made for some ICE employees to be disciplined. Fortunately for the young lady in question, you disclosed at the very end of your show that she had already been released. You made it seem like you just learned of this development during the 40 minutes from the end of your monologue to the end of the show.

The other two topics of the show were the brave democracy defenders fleeing Texas to prevent the legal democratic process from functioning, and an interview with a lawyer seeking to get a couple DOJ lawyers disbarred for lying to a federal judge.

Ms. Maddow, I have no first-hand, nor even second-hand, relevant knowledge; but, I am willing to bet you a modest sum that one, you knew full well that the star victim of your monologue was safely home before you went on the air; and two, that the legal pleadings of your intrepid lawyer hero contain more falsehoods than the legal pleadings of the DOJ lawyers he is seeking to disbar.

In the future, unless I get advance assurance that the Russia hoax is on your agenda, I will not be watching. As a senior citizen, no one can make me eat broccoli, and no one can make me watch your show.

Sincerely,

G-Pub