As Oregon state Rep. Janelle Bynum was canvassing voters for the next election, someone called the thug department, assuming she was a thief.

Therese Patricia Okoumou climbed up the outside of the Statue of Liberty as a protest against imprisonment of refugees.

Thugs responded by forcing all visitors off the island.

I think this is an example of intentional overreaction. Ordinary overreaction is based on misunderstanding — for instance, mistaking a phone for a gun and shooting the "armed suspect". Intentional overreaction is an act of propaganda — an taking actions that are clearly unwarranted with the aim of convincing people that such actions are warranted.

Ms Okoumou is now threatened with a year's imprisonment, which demonstrates how many ways thugs have developed to construe a peaceful and harmless protest as a crime.

A six-year-old Salvadorean girl was deported to El Salvador (where her father was) after a month of imprisonment by herself in the US.

She is physically well, but psychologically harmed.

The engines of ships in the Mediterranean produce lots of air pollution. This is especially dangerous when they run their engines at a dock in a city, right next to where people live.

Americans have set up protest camps near ICE offices in several cities demanding to abolish the ICE (the deportation thug agency).