All the world is a protest stage for the agitprop airhead
Since the first Chicago Contrarian article about her was posted, we have learned much about social contagion and carpetbagger Kat Abughazaleh. A 26-year-old Texas-born social media influencer and former Media Matters paid snitch who, until a year ago lived in Washington DC., Abughazaleh now resides in Illinois’ 7th congressional district, yet she is running for the Democratic nomination for the open U.S. House seat in the 9th district.
Lately this performative idiot, this agitprop airhead, this Wonder Woman of the Woke, has been making a national name for herself many miles from the 9th district by regularly protesting at an ICE detainee processing center in west suburban Broadview.
Two weeks ago, in Abughazaleh’s words, while she was ensconced with other protesters on a street attempting to block a van, a PPE-masked Abughazaleh was confronted by ICE agents. “When we tried to get in the way of the van, they picked us up or dragged us away, for some people, shoved people,” she told Newsweek. “I was picked up and thrown.”
On-duty federal agents participating in Operation Midway Blitz were passengers in that van.
Ever the drama queen, Abughazaleh, as you will see if you watch video of that encounter, was merely dropped — she landed on her hind quarters, easily the best place to fall onto when greeting asphalt. She probably was bruised a bit from the drop, but Abughazaleh was limber enough the following week for a social media encore in Broadview. This time, probably to increase her recognizability, she didn't wear a PPE mask — she can clearly be seen blocking an SUV with federal agents inside.
“At the Broadview ICE facility,” Abughazaleh posted on X, “an ICE agent tried to run dozens of protesters over with an SUV as we walked on a public crosswalk.”
That is a lie, the ICE agent did no such thing. And the First Amendment does not protect purposely blocking a motor vehicle on a street. Nor does it protect driveway and sidewalk sitters.
But it was a mission accomplished moment for the internet diva; there have been over nine million views of Kat’s leftist political performance art on X.
Daniel Biss, the far-left mayor of Evanston, who is also running for Congress in the 9th, was at the earlier protest, and he admitted on X that he attempted to block an ICE SUV.
Biss, a mathematician, clearly knows numbers and he’s probably painfully aware that Abughazaleh is fundraising off of her agitprop.
But casting a wide net has its downside.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), while quoting her second Broadview pratfall on X, remarked, “Why are Democrat candidates for office filming themselves committing felonies?”
While it’s unlikely that senior federal law enforcement officials, such as US attorney general Pam Bondi, subscribe to Abughazaleh’s social media feeds, they probably keep an eye on what Cruz says on X. The senator is an accomplished attorney who has argued cases in front of the US Supreme Court nine times.
Felony? Yes. It appears that Abughazaleh, as well as Biss, violated 18 U.S. Code § 111:
(a) In General.—Whoever— (1) forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person designated in section 1114 of this title while engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties; or (2) forcibly assaults or intimidates any person who formerly served as a person designated in section 1114 on account of the performance of official duties during such person’s term of service, shall, where the acts in violation of this section constitute only simple assault, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, and where such acts involve physical contact with the victim of that assault or the intent to commit another felony, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both.
18 U.S. Code § 1114 covers protection of officers and employees of the federal government.
FAFO, as President Trump loves to say.
Although I am thinking that Abughazaleh will not be indicted for obstructing federal officials. Criminal charges against her would give the social contagion even more of the attention that she so desperately craves. However, if she is indicted, of course Kat will blame Trump, as she did after the indictment of former FBI director Jim Comey.
“In his latest classic authoritarian playbook move, Donald Trump just indicted James Comey despite absolutely no evidence of crimes or wrongdoing,” Abughazaleh mused on X
Clearly Abughazaleh didn’t learn much at George Washington University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in international studies. On the state and federal levels, grand juries, not individuals — and that includes governors and presidents — indict people who are suspected of committing crimes.
If Abughazaleh is elected to Congress, let’s hope she is not assigned, ever, to the House Judiciary Committee.
In that first Contrarian exposé about Abughazaleh, this writer remarked that her apparent goal in Congress would be to serve as Chicago’s answer to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the leftist Squad in the House of Representatives.
Yet, in consideration of her recent agitprop antics, it appears that she is more likely to end up as an Illinois version of the clownish congresswoman from Texas, Jasmine Crockett, another person addicted to social media.
Both Democrats share one talent — attracting attention to themselves.
Media reports of shortcomings, including overcrowding and the lack of hot meals for detainees at the Broadview center, are unsubstantiated. But if these accusations are true, then opening a larger ICE detainee facility is in order. But Abughazaleh wants to abolish ICE, which will mean no detention facilities at all.
And she has a dangerous opinion of ICE.
This week, while she was a guest on the Ben Joravsky Show podcast, Abughazaleh denigrated ICE agents absurdly:
“Most of the violence that ICE seems to commit on camera, especially the most aggressive and egregious instances, are against unarmed women. And it’s because these men are weak, they feel incompetent, they’re angry because they’re not as big and strong as they’d like to be.”
They sure look big and strong to me, and her sob stories about enduring pepper balls and being teargassed by ICE deserve no sympathy. If you don’t want such a reaction, then don’t resist federal law enforcement officers.
On Javorsky's podcast, Abughazaleh admitted to the host that she openly mocks ICE agents at the Broadview protests with jeers such as this one.
“Did you get your outfit at Spirit Halloween?”
That childish remark is something Crockett would utter.
Those ICE officers are putting their lives on the line every day they report to work. Last week, two migrants were shot to death in Dallas by a maniac who appears to have been aiming for ICE agents.
Two weeks before the murders, a grinning Kat posted a photo of herself on X holding a “Warning: Target ICE” sign adjacent to a “Warning: Target Rats” sign.
What does this tell you about Kat and how she would conduct herself as a legislator?
