Another Branch Of The Military… But Not Military.

We have the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and Space Force but there is now another branch that is “non-military” but;

•     It looks like a military (tactical gear, high-end weaponry, mass transport).
•     It acts like a military (mass logistics, detention camps, "battlefield" rhetoric).
•     But stays "Civilian" on paper, allowing it to bypass the strict constitutional and statutory limits that keep the actual U.S. Army out of your neighborhood.

That branch is ICE.

It has become the "Third Branch" of the armed forces—one that operates domestically, is not bound by the traditional rules of war or policing, and circumvents the Posse Comitatus and the Insurrection Acts.

The budget for ICE, thanks to the recent "One Big Beautiful Bill," has ballooned to nearly $30 billion—nearly three times its 2024 levels and roughly two-thirds of the entire U.S. Marine Corps budget. Let that sink in for a minute. Their motto appears to have become: “One of Ours / All of Yours.”

As the saying goes, they are loose cannons—and they are acting like thugs in uniform.

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Peaceful protesters are being harassed and taken into custody while exercising their First Amendment rights of free speech and assembly. These agents are ignoring the very Constitution that guarantees the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

 … or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

They are ignoring the Constitution.

Gay Minneapolis pastor says ICE agent pointed gun at his face, blocks from Renee Good’s killing

“Are you afraid now?” Rev. Kenny Callaghan said the federal agent asked him before he was handcuffed and placed in a black SUV.

The Advocate

Christopher Wiggins

Jan 11, 2026

A gay Minneapolis pastor says federal immigration agents handcuffed him, pointed a gun at his face, and taunted him while he stood among nonviolent protesters just blocks from where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, a mother of three who also leaves behind a wife. The encounter has become a visceral symbol of fear, fury, and deepening mistrust between federal authorities and communities already scarred by violence.

The Rev. Kenny Callaghan, a gay senior pastor at All God’s Children Metropolitan Community Church whose congregation sits near Portland Avenue and East 31st Street, told The Advocate in an interview Friday that he went toward a commotion on Wednesday morning after hearing that a group of federal agents was surrounding and threatening what he perceived to be a Hispanic woman, not specifically in response to the earlier shooting.

When he stepped in and told ICE agents to take him and now woman the ICE agents the Advocate article goes on to write,

An agent immediately raised a firearm at his face, Callaghan said, and asked, “Are you afraid now?” He said he replied no, and moments later, he was handcuffed and placed in a black SUV. Inside the vehicle, Callaghan said, the same agent returned repeatedly to ask whether he was “afraid yet.” He remained there for about 30 minutes and was released without being arrested or charged, he said.

In Minnesota: it is Assault in the Second Degree (MN Statute 609.222) and is defined as an assault with a dangerous weapon. You do not have to pull the trigger for it to be an assault; "intent to cause fear of immediate bodily harm" is the legal threshold. And he words shows "intent to cause fear of immediate bodily harm"!

The final insult revealed the blatant racial targeting behind these tactics. Before letting him go, Callaghan said the agent told him:

Before letting him go, Callaghan said, the agent told him, “You’re white anyway. You wouldn’t be any fun,” a remark he said made plain what he experienced as racial targeting.