{"id":423,"date":"2026-09-27T11:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/?p=423"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T17:14:08","slug":"i-am-responsible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"I am responsible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I vote. I pay taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I bought the bullet that ICE used to kill or injure aliens and citizens alike, seemingly indiscreetly, illegally, and with impunity. I bought the gun that fired the bullet. I bought the body armor the agent used to protect his body without a name tag or badge. I bought the mask he uses to hide his identity. I bought the body camera he refuses to wear or to activate and from which ICE refuses to share footage that does not advance its image. I bought the unmarked SUV he used to drive the target\u2019s vehicle off the road. I pay the bills at the detention center that inhumanely houses the immigrants without due process or legal warrants, including infants, toddlers, and adolescents. I pay the salaries of Mullin, Homan, and Miller, and I elected Trump, the men who set the policies that create &#8211; and that they shroud in terms like nationalism, patriotism, Christianity, national security &#8211; this chaos, violence, hate, and death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I vote. I pay taxes. I bought the bullet that ICE used to kill or injure aliens and citizens alike, seemingly indiscreetly, illegally, and with impunity. I bought the gun that fired the bullet. I bought the body armor the agent used to protect his body without a name tag or badge. I bought the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelschester.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}