Maybe ICE Will Go The Way Of The Martians

I was 11 years old, sitting in that movie theatre, scared out of my wits.

It was 1953, so that probably contributed to my terror.

We were told daily at school that we could avoid thermonuclear incineration by crouching under our desks.

I thought that to be a shaky premise.

But I went to a Catholic school, so I did what the nuns told me to do.

But, of course, terror is just a fungible word.

With the right emphasis that could be a Bob Dylan song.

Move things magically, quantumly forward.

Tonight I was watching PBS Newshour.

Measles cases are skyrocketing.

Across America.

Especially in immigrant enclaves, who are scared shitless by ICE so they don't go out, even for groceries.

They especially don't go out for vaccinations.

In fact, they have never done that.

ICE and all that.

For years and years and years and years.

The movie, all those years ago was the really good version of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds.

As fate, and H. G. Wells would have it, these guys - above - toward movie's end, began to fall to the ground like unvaccinated Americans.

And that, as this paraphrase of the audio of the movie's ending summarizes, and what all of us can hope is beginning to happen here and now, God willing, in Minneapolis, but spreading like a cleansing plague across the land is what we can all hope for: "Those invaders, armored in their machines and armed with powers beyond human imagining, found themselves undone not by our strength but by the smallest life native to this world — the unseen microbes that had shaped us over ages. In the quiet balance of creation, it was these minute organisms, placed here in God’s wisdom, that proved the final and decisive defense of Earth."

Those microbes are our life, our liberty and our pursuit of happiness; they are also our right to resist oppression; they are also our right to not go quietly into the night; they - really, are our founding documents.

So, one could well hope: that all the ICE targets, all those black, brown, yellow and red Americans, all those others who donnie has turned into the most profitable grift in history, have a lack of immunity to a deadly disease that ICE probably eliminates ICE candidates for being vaccinated against.

ENDGAME.