This is America

Land of the Occupied, Home of the Capitalists

They tell us we live in the land of the free. They declare, "we the people," and we assume they mean us when we were only ever defined -- designed -- to be the fodder to build their "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness."

On a Thursday, a 2-year-old girl returned home from the store with her father, Elvis Tipan-Echeverria, when unknown, masked agents trespassed onto their driveway and smashed the window in. In the name of defending the pursuit of happiness, she, with her father, was shoved into a car with no car seat and placed on a plane to Texas. This little girl was eventually returned to her mother in Minnesota; her father -- still imprisoned in the land of the free.