At first I thought the piece by Josina Manu Maltzman ("all pronouns" per its bio) at the Literary Hub, "Letter From Minnesota: Echoes of the Other Occupation," to be just another example of liberal double-speak by comparing illegal alien invaders in the United States to the Palestinians in the West Bank who are being displaced by Jewish settlers. The more appropriate analogy would have been comparing the illegals to the Jewish settlers, but Maltzman was not going to let logic or facts get in the way of it equating ICE to the IDF. Besides, as they say, inversion is the only version liberals know.
But as I read on, I quickly realized that besides showcasing its creative writing skills, what its article reveals is the high level of organization and coordination amongst illegals and traitors. For instance, intermixing its tale of moving from one house to another with the resistance against ICE, it writes:
... We talk about our experiences doing protective presence in Palestine, and how it’s the same work here. “Protective presence” is a tactic utilized by a targeted group of people in which they get untargeted people to be a buffer so that they can go along with trying to resist their occupation and live a normal life. In Palestine this looks like recording settler violence, accompanying shepherds in their orchards and kids to school. It looks like staying up all night and keeping watch, it means going back home and telling people about what you’ve witnessed.
Here in Minneapolis, because I’m not living in the crosshairs, the mandate is the same: protective presence. Here in Minneapolis it looks like giving rides to and from work to people who are taking the gamble to leave their homes. Delivering groceries to families sheltering in place. It looks like the elaborate networks called sanctuary schools, helping get kids fed and to/from school as safe as possible. It looks like the rapid response network. It’s the people in the streets planning rallies or just spontaneously [hah!] showing up to combat an ICE presence, people maintaining vigil sites in negative twenty degrees. It’s the care network of healers doing bodywork for those targeted and those doing frontline response, it’s the street medics and their dispatchers, the people researching hotels and car rentals that do business with ICE and staging relentless noise demos and call-ins to ruin those businesses, it’s the people holding a presence at the Whipple building where detainees are caged, it’s being stationed at stores, at mosques, at schools. It’s the tow truck drivers moving vehicles abandoned when their drivers are snatched in the street. It’s the distribution sites and businesses donating all their meals, and the elaborate mutual aid infrastructure getting supplies and money in the hands of people who need it. It’s the people giving and taking know-your-rights and observer trainings. It’s the safety and security teams, the vets and doctors doing house calls, the journalists documenting all of it and getting arrested for doing so, and the artists and culture workers trying to make meaning out of all of this. And it’s everyone, targeted and not, who are living into this mandate.
What it is describing are communication and intelligence networks, smuggler networks, underground medical networks, and protestors and harassers (and, presumably, security) that can quickly be mobilized. This is a parallel government and guerilla force mostly financed, as we are only beginning to fathom, by tens and probably hundreds of billions of stolen tax dollars. And the thing is, we see this all over the country. When things go hot, it may well be less like the outbreak of the Civil War in 1860 and more like the Tet Offensive.
- Related: This is the type of evil we are facing: "'She’s so pretty… why don’t we just let her get r[**]ed?' says an angry leftist while threatening a young Christian woman."
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