I had a whole separate essay to share with you tonight. As I was finishing up the final touches on it, I just couldn’t bring myself to publish it. All day today, I’ve been carrying heartbreak for someone I don’t even know. A video of ICE agents arresting a young man, and a mom screaming and crying in pain keeps playing over and over again in my mind, and in my heart. And then I made the mistake of reading the comments.
Please someone explain how the child can be an illegal if the mother is not.
Also how can all those ice agents with their faces covered hiding from all, be so desensitised that they forget how their mothers and children would be so horrified to know what revolting bullies their family member had become.
One of the agents pointed a gun - a lethal weapon at the mother to keep her away.
There was no checking paperwork, discussion as to whether they had the right person it was just a bunch of bully boys subduing a single man.
It literally sickens me to my core that Americans in power can stand back and agree with this and allow it to happen.
Please please someone take charge and get the man out of power.
Thanks, Heather. Those of us who have empathy are awake in the middle of the night reading what you write and worrying about tomorrow. But there are more of us than there are them. Keep marching.
Yes! So we are all onboard. But nothing happens until we call out and start eliminating the enablers. None of this would be possible without the GOP Congress carrying out his psychopathic agenda. And so far the only time one finally comes around and takes a stand is when they are thrown out of Congress or resign.
Th e nearly same scenario happened in my community today. On a pleasant little downtown village street where people stroll to have lunch or coffee at a sidewalk cafe or walk their dog. And a video was posted on Next Door and some neighbors were aghast and also warned others that ICE was present in our neighborhood and others cheered and expressed their gratitude that ICE was ridding our fine community of these unwanted criminals. Yes we are, I believe, hopelessly divided now.
I have a young girl who helps me as needed… she is white but has children of mixed color as her partner was black. She is starting to see black boys and men in her neighborhood be picked up by ICE for no reason except their skin color. She is scared to death. The brother of a friend was returning home after driving someone home from the hospital. As he got closer to his home he stopped at a local store to pick up a cold drink and after returning to his car was “arrested” as he “looked like a suspect in a recent crime”…. They threw him on the ground and beat him up. They fractured his eye socket and punched his face and head, fractured two ribs and then took him to the police station and arrested him. For what? I say for being black, in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was born in this country by American parents. He was an athlete so never drank or did he drugs or even smoked cigarettes. What is this country coming to? The agents had turned off cameras if they had any. The girl who helps me is scared to death for her teenage son even though he has never had any arrests or run ins with the law. If the reason this poor young man was beaten up was because of his color, no one is safe.
Heather I found your latest post quite appalling. These ICE agents are behaving just like Hitler's blackshirts. Surely there are enough Senators and Congressmen and women to impeach the orange buffoon, as it's quite clear he's grossly incompetent to be the leader of the Western world. We in Europe can only look on in mounting disbelief. The wise words of Edmund Burke come to mind.
Heather, we have to do more to stop this before we can’t. Your post are like fingernails on my heart. I can’t stay quiet any longer. How do we organize and let our voices be heard in mass? I’ve attended the No Kings rallies but I think we need to be even bigger. I don’t think it’s too late but we are getting very close. Please help us stop this madness.
Dear Heather, I understand how upsetting those images are for you and how baffling the comments as well. Here in Australia I get the same disappointing reactions to anything posted about aboriginal welfare or climate change. I despair at the underlying racism that respondents post whenever something about First Nation people is posted. My hope is that they are a minority who make the loudest noise - I hope so but I’m not sure.
Again, as you have on a daily basis, along with the other Heather and Kareem and many other journalists/truthtellers, again you have shone a clear light of intelligence, rationality and empathy on the dark virus infecting our spirit. As with every disease, the cancer begins small and then expands geometrically. With no guarantee of a cure.
The hope here is that the tipping point has not been reached and that you and the other doctors of the spirit have created the vaccine that will help push back the dark tide that threatens all of us.
Yes, this infection, this “syndrome” hurts me, too.
Yet, still we rise. And hear this little bird, hope, even in the chill of morning on the strangest seas, singing. Courage, my friend. We fall down, scrape and hurt, then get up.
Heather, thank you. What you have described is the beginnings of a civil war. You are a music interpreter, a musical coda for what is happening is civil war by Guns N’ Roses. “What’s so civil ‘bout war anyway ?” “Do you wear a black armband when they shot the man?” Buckle up everyone 🔥😡
Please someone explain how the child can be an illegal if the mother is not.
Also how can all those ice agents with their faces covered hiding from all, be so desensitised that they forget how their mothers and children would be so horrified to know what revolting bullies their family member had become.
One of the agents pointed a gun - a lethal weapon at the mother to keep her away.
There was no checking paperwork, discussion as to whether they had the right person it was just a bunch of bully boys subduing a single man.
It literally sickens me to my core that Americans in power can stand back and agree with this and allow it to happen.
Please please someone take charge and get the man out of power.
Thanks, Heather. Those of us who have empathy are awake in the middle of the night reading what you write and worrying about tomorrow. But there are more of us than there are them. Keep marching.
Yes! So we are all onboard. But nothing happens until we call out and start eliminating the enablers. None of this would be possible without the GOP Congress carrying out his psychopathic agenda. And so far the only time one finally comes around and takes a stand is when they are thrown out of Congress or resign.
That’s where the focus needs to be, IMHO.
Th e nearly same scenario happened in my community today. On a pleasant little downtown village street where people stroll to have lunch or coffee at a sidewalk cafe or walk their dog. And a video was posted on Next Door and some neighbors were aghast and also warned others that ICE was present in our neighborhood and others cheered and expressed their gratitude that ICE was ridding our fine community of these unwanted criminals. Yes we are, I believe, hopelessly divided now.
I have a young girl who helps me as needed… she is white but has children of mixed color as her partner was black. She is starting to see black boys and men in her neighborhood be picked up by ICE for no reason except their skin color. She is scared to death. The brother of a friend was returning home after driving someone home from the hospital. As he got closer to his home he stopped at a local store to pick up a cold drink and after returning to his car was “arrested” as he “looked like a suspect in a recent crime”…. They threw him on the ground and beat him up. They fractured his eye socket and punched his face and head, fractured two ribs and then took him to the police station and arrested him. For what? I say for being black, in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was born in this country by American parents. He was an athlete so never drank or did he drugs or even smoked cigarettes. What is this country coming to? The agents had turned off cameras if they had any. The girl who helps me is scared to death for her teenage son even though he has never had any arrests or run ins with the law. If the reason this poor young man was beaten up was because of his color, no one is safe.
Heather I found your latest post quite appalling. These ICE agents are behaving just like Hitler's blackshirts. Surely there are enough Senators and Congressmen and women to impeach the orange buffoon, as it's quite clear he's grossly incompetent to be the leader of the Western world. We in Europe can only look on in mounting disbelief. The wise words of Edmund Burke come to mind.
I have to admit that as an outsider watching from Europe, I find these approval ratings still shockingly high.
Heather, we have to do more to stop this before we can’t. Your post are like fingernails on my heart. I can’t stay quiet any longer. How do we organize and let our voices be heard in mass? I’ve attended the No Kings rallies but I think we need to be even bigger. I don’t think it’s too late but we are getting very close. Please help us stop this madness.
Once again you put my very chaotic thoughts into words. Thank you so much for everything you do.
Dear Heather, I understand how upsetting those images are for you and how baffling the comments as well. Here in Australia I get the same disappointing reactions to anything posted about aboriginal welfare or climate change. I despair at the underlying racism that respondents post whenever something about First Nation people is posted. My hope is that they are a minority who make the loudest noise - I hope so but I’m not sure.
I’m in Australia, too, Roger. I agree. It’s the underlying racism that is so ugly. I’d hoped we were beyond that but it keeps rearing its ugly head.
Again, as you have on a daily basis, along with the other Heather and Kareem and many other journalists/truthtellers, again you have shone a clear light of intelligence, rationality and empathy on the dark virus infecting our spirit. As with every disease, the cancer begins small and then expands geometrically. With no guarantee of a cure.
The hope here is that the tipping point has not been reached and that you and the other doctors of the spirit have created the vaccine that will help push back the dark tide that threatens all of us.
Yes, this infection, this “syndrome” hurts me, too.
Yet, still we rise. And hear this little bird, hope, even in the chill of morning on the strangest seas, singing. Courage, my friend. We fall down, scrape and hurt, then get up.
Heather, thank you. What you have described is the beginnings of a civil war. You are a music interpreter, a musical coda for what is happening is civil war by Guns N’ Roses. “What’s so civil ‘bout war anyway ?” “Do you wear a black armband when they shot the man?” Buckle up everyone 🔥😡
You are absolutely right, Heather. The cruelty and lack of empathy for another who only may look different, is stunning.
Their domination fetish will lead to thier doom