Quick Note: Colonialist Violence, July 3 2025
This morning, while waiting to see if Republicans strip the life from millions of Americans, I watched news coverage from Al Jazeera revealing video of U.S. contractors firing on Palestinians seeking food.
Tariq Mehmood
There is such a clear and strong link between the genocide in Gaza, the concentration camp in Florida, the massive expansion of ICE, and the colonialist death machine of the Israeli Occupation Force. I hope everyone I know can see this.
I've observed people whistling in the graveyard to the following tune: "even if (when) the Big Bill passes and ICE gets funding for 10,000 more agents, who would they hire? Surely there can't be that many more people willing to be ICE agents!" To that I say: look at this "Operator"-cultural complex in the U.S.
The ghoulish contractors gleefully taking potshots at starving Palestinians are cut from the same cloth as the wannabe Operator types who will apply for and be employed by ICE. The suburban dream of violence, personified and calcified into a brittle little crystal of death and hate.
None of this is possible without Abu Ghraib, without Guantanamo, without the illegal annihilation of hundreds of thousands of Afghani and Iraqi civilians; and none of that is possible without the western fascist brotherhoods that arose after World War II; and none of that is possible without the legacy of eugenics as a cultural and political project innovated by the United States; and none of that is possible without the institution of slavery underpinning the colonial enterprise.
A world that runs on the extraction of value from other human beings will always result in some people being deemed value-less. Expendable. And this same world will continue to produce morally destitute freaks eager to silence their screaming souls by torturing and murdering those they find expendable.
A better world is possible. I thought I'd live to see it; I'm less sure now. Someone will get there someday.
