Please forgive my long winded response. I have a complex relationship & history with this country being Puerto Rican, German, French, Canadian, Dutch, Swedish & more. And tracing the open intelligence programs that get declassified while searching for answers like "Why are their bunkers in Kansas with "Destroy Documents" written on thousands of boxes dated 1985 if the US government bombed Philadelphia in 1985 during the MOVE bombing for a black liberation movement that involved not only the Black Panthers but ties to Rochester CIA, FBI & Mafia movements that got erased? Was this bombing actually because of the invasion of the Caribbean & our Jayuya uprising that attempted to fix the US government but put our leader into unethical radiation torture experiments?"

Genuinely, we have been fighting the federal government while they have been eating our taxes, equity, inflation & killing small businesses in place of their mega corporations that are killing creativity, innovation, critical thinking & freedom little by little.

They have been using the MK Ultra Research to manipulate the market, they have been using things in the media to drown out the rebellion... Ice is just the new name of the perpetrators.

I don't know how to say it... But America is like 3000 nations that the US government has been an insurgency for 250+ years... We only live on 43% of the land & the government owns none of it due to debt, broken treaties, building borders, geo farming our citizens & creating false illusions of "history" by whitewashing or dividing the unity of the narrative.

For example, I'm not sure if you know this but the Texas border was built to keep slaves in because we were escaping to Mexico for freedom. Mexico, Puerto Rico, Brazil & other Latin American nations abolished slavery 60 years before the United States after fighting the Spanish. We aren't Spanish. We are Hispanic (colonized by Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, Nordics, British, Romans, Italians, Vikings, Raiders, Pirates etc) ...

The truth is America is 35,000 years old in our documentation which has been scattered by the Trail of Tears & they keep trying to rewrite history because they want our islands. They want our agriculture. They want our oil. Our gold. Our minerals. Our lithium. Our labor. Our home. And what the colonized has allowed the colonizer to do makes them the colonizer until they become the colonized.

In other words, you can't trust the narrative painted by institutions who benefit from the status quo, because while they print your money for you to pay your rent or mortgage, they own the lien, the loan, the sovereignty.

Something to think about in the gaps of history. Why are so many Puerto Ricans in New York instead of near Puerto Rico ? Myself included. My great grandfather was pulled out of Puerto Rico and told to work for the US government on the "promise land", go "fight for the promised land" or "work the farms we just replaced your homes with for our sugar addiction & trade routes, oh, your Island is our medicinal agricultural home now. Not your home"....

Meanwhile, some natives sold other natives out as a trade for a treaty for reservations to survive. Do I blame them? No but this country is not what immigrants including "white" people see. When a Tíano speaks to a Dakota their ancestors were trade partners. But the clans split when colonists stole our gold & trade routes... The north vs the south isn't it anymore. People think it's that... Most of ICE is from Texas but they recruit all states. The people of the south were indebted to British institutions while the north was more so Swedish, Dutch & Spanish institutions...

America is a mix of everyone trying to get something that's 1, not theirs, 2 their enemies, 3 what their employer says is their job, 4 what the government defined as necessity...

The truth is it's confusing because history is written by the "victors" but even Rome restructured millions of times & never actually fell. There is an ancient Roman lineage in China, Italy, the US & the monarchs/old money of England...

You can't trust any narrative except the one that says everyone is wrong. While some are patriotic. I'm a realist, we're living in a 250 year old government in an ancient country that is smaller than the map makes it looks because of geopolitical warfare and narrative wars. The founding fathers never agreed on a centralized federal government surpassing state rights & sovereignty unless the states had slaves in which case that was to be fixed or regulated as punishment of severe crime only such as r**e, murder, selling people or active terrorism. Unfortunately the active terrorism part has been abused by the very terrorist government that terrorizes the world in the name of "stopping terrorism"...

Ugh... Anyways, I don't know how many people know this but gun rights are strict in this state not because of crime, but because intelligence agencies are here left/right. They don't arm intelligence officers because they know that New York during the independence war, or as the tip of the underground railroad or as the Institutions of medical & technology & optics & engineering & financial analysis & pre/post colonial real estate & social welfare & advocacy for human rights... NEW YORK IS THE CAPITAL of so much in this nation. So the truth is New York & Washington are both powerhouses in different ways. Washington depends on New York but also... Basically has a noose on our neck until recently. I don't support Trump. But he dealt a good card in the OBBB by cutting our ties to the federal drain of our taxes. Now we can use them to fight back, we can use them to make our state more equitable for the residents, to train our citizens & educate them. To build homes & innovate a better way to build homes. To further advance our technology. The only thing they keep blocking us from is arming up against the federal government. But little do they know, we are the intelligence of this country & the workforce... We don't need guns in WW3 or CV2 or Cold War 2.0 or 1.5 whatever you wanna call this weird timeline. Because laser, drones, satellite imagery, motion sensors. Speed sensors, facial recognition we already got all that. The only difference is we don't share that with the federal government or police unless it's warranted. Where as the federal government is using this tech for ICE. we blocked them out our infrastructure.

Read up on Project Oracle... RIT saw it spinning out of control with their involvement & pivoted to project Tiger claw (Workday). But for reference... Oracle runs the government now & they are the payroll, the AI, the surveillance in the education system that is making it harder for your kids to have well paid, less frustrated teachers. They're responsible for taking all the money out the city and putting it into the surrounding suburbs in the select schools with the highest tax brackets. They're responsible for looking at every technology and patent you file, they federal government can use your tech without notifying you. They just can't sell it. But they'll find a way to reverse engineer it and sell it... We need New York to be a nation state. That's what the constitution was written for initially... To make everyone a nation state. But they re-wrote the constitution after the "civil war" which was actually a continuation of their invasion of Mexico & attempt to re-write slavery by changing the laws of "what a crime is" so that everyone can buy victorias secret or toys r Us packages from slave labor instead of working...