This was meant to be a piece comparing America’s ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) with the Gestapo. It was an article that would have expressed surprise that in a country awash with the guns, the reaction, the push-back to such a violent body has not been more, violent. It was not meant to advocate violence but more an expression of amazement that the reaction to fight Fire with Fire has not been prominent.
‘Even when only one side is firing it can still be a civil war’. (Ian Frederick Harris).
The question was, where are the American people?
Anyway, I thought Shakespeare might help.
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Trump…
‘Your breath first kindled the dead coal of wars
And brought in matter that should feed this fire;
And now ’tis far too huge to be blown out
With that same weak wind which enkindled it.’
King John
‘The bay-trees in our country all are wither’d
And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven;
The pale-fac’d moon looks bloody on the earth
And lean-look’d prophets whisper fearful change;
Rich men look sad and ruffians dance and leap,
The one in fear to lose what they enjoy,
The other to enjoy by rage and war.’
Richard III
‘War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.’
Julius Caesar
‘Sound trumpets! let our bloody colours wave!
And either victory, or else a grave.’
Henry VI Part 3
The arms are fair,
When the intent of bearing them is just.’
Henry IV Part 1
‘And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.’
Julius Caesar
