It is important for our society to have a respect for Law Enforcement and the “Rule of Law”.
That respect is being challenged by an administration in Washington that seems bent on challenging legal norms that have existed and been refined since the American Revolution.
When citizens and immigrants see videos of unmarked police cars and masked men kidnaping individuals off the streets of our country often without arrest warrants; raiding businesses and farms, and Home Depot parking lots; invading churches, schools, court hearings, graduation ceremonies; creating fear of the police. Then disappearing individuals to distant states, denying the right of habeas corpus, and denying the access to legal representation, even illegal deportation to other countries. There are now concentration camps created in our country holding individuals swept up and being held, with some already deported without “due process”. Being returned to our country only after the Supreme Court orders the return so “due process” may be granted.
Fortunately we have videos that record some of these events. Contrary to administrative explanations, we heard a United States Senator identify himself at a press conference trying to ask a question, then being physically forced out of a room he was allowed into by authorities, shown being thrown to the ground and handcuffed.
On June 13, 2025 Anthony L. Fisher, Senior Editor, MSNBC Daily stated ….. “ICE’s sadistic, haphazard raids in which undocumented immigrants with no criminal records, including women and children, and even legal immigrants and U.S. citizens have been ensnared in the name of protecting the homeland from a fictitious foreign invasion of terrorists and hardened gang members? Or is the secretary (Noem) speaking more literally and indicating the Trump administration intends to remove — or otherwise render moot — democratically elected state and local officials who oppose the federal government’s brutal incursion into their jurisdictions?”
When we lose respect for Law Enforcement and the “Rule of Law” we are closer to losing our democracy.
Sincerely yours,
David J. Neuendorff
Bowling Green,
