By Stewart Resmer
Yesterday in Memphis Tennessee a rabid ranting Stephen Miller took to the podium with the Secretary of War standing behind him to encourage sworn law enforcement to swarm streets and neighborhoods like the equivalent of unleashed attack dogs of war.
For chicken hawks like Miller it’s all theoretical chest thumping and bravado from the rear of the phalanx it is quite another thing to have the to actually take up the front line in the streets.
Streets where it is only the stalking horse pretense of the occupying force that is present to begin with.
Such is the paranoid venal state of affairs that exists in the troubled minds of the likes of Miller’s crusaders to purge the land of such, as he, and they, see it.
It began with the undocumented, it morphed in to the most dangerous among them, it became something far more different after children were separated from parents and corralled in cages.
It currently exists now to occupy American cities inhabited with millions of individuals by a few hundred heavily armed guardsmen and women instead here and there from Los Angeles to Chicago, Portland, and elsewhere including Memphis.
What Miller and the rest are missing of course is obvious to many of us who lived in an era that saw 123 US cities simultaneously in flames in the sixties, and that is the lessons of history.
Lessons that have a predictable habit of repeating throughout the ages, and among those is that here?
The People Rule.
A concept that seems to evade those like Miller who came to rule (by force) and not serve by the consent of the governed.
Stewart Resmer served in Vietnam with the United States Marine Corps, before embarking on a career as a Hollywood stuntman and limousine driver. He is retired and now lives in Wayne, New Jersey.