And make money. Don't forget that part of it.

You are right. That is the direction this is going.

Yes, I agree. It was what they did to AP that got up journalists' dander.

I don't think any U.S. troops would fire on American civilians, armed or otherwise.

Good point.

I think they would care if the news media really did make an effort to report on this, accurately and objectively. But they really aren't. They're reporting on it as though there's nothing, really, to see here, and the latest effort by Republicans in Congress to find out what happened is simply Republicans playing politics.

Evidently not.

What I want to know is this: When is someone going to sue the ACLU on the grounds that the ACLU is violating the U.S. Constitution with its legal threats, bullying and intimidation of Christians with its ongoing effort to deprive them of their rights under the Constitution? Does anyone ever counter-sue the ACLU when they're sued? Just wondering. I don't recall ever having heard of anyone doing that.

My goodness. I didn't even know about this plot. And we have boulevards in major American cities named after Che Guevara.

... now, they're just immigrants ... and maybe the story will add, at some point, that they're not in the country legally, or that they don't have permission to be in the country. You are absolutely right. Controlling the language, controlling the terms used in the discussion frame the discussion and marginalizes anyone who holds a different viewpoint or tries to use a different term. And it is deliberate.