ICE IN THE SOUL

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ICE IN THE SOUL

Wearing masks to keep themselves hid

So no one can blame them for the things that they did.

Harassment and terror the tools of the trade

Deployed by the state to shake down and raid.

Sent to the blue states to stir everything up

Trump’s own militia – with the devil they sup

Recruits from the Proud Boys, purveyors of hate

Under the pretext of making America great

Blood on the seat, blood on the snow

Lies in the air from those in the know

First it was Good, then it was Pretti

Executions in the heart of the city

Life ended with bullets from the hands of a goon

Lies from the White House but soon changed their tune

The truth was recorded on many a phone

Lies seen through cutting straight to the bone

Faceless and mindless full of great hate

Zombies of fascism deployed by the state

Executioners, killers let off the halter

Eager and obedient, they never falter

Heartless and cruel as a glacial device

The thumbscrews of Nazis, the workings of ICE.

Opher – 29.1.2026

I felt I had to write something. I really could not believe what I was witnessing on the streets of what is supposedly a free democratic country.

Trump has divided the country and whipped it up into such hatred that it teeters on the edge of civil war. The battle lines are drawn. His rhetoric is accusatory and divisive. He is free with his labels and hateful with his language – quick to blame others and laud himself.

ICE has become his private militia deployed to wreak revenge upon those who did not support him or his brand of extreme fascism.

This conman is piling billions into his vaults while giving more power to the wealthy and religious fanatics.

It’s like watching a child play with immense power that he doesn’t understand – tariffs, threats, war.

He thrives on chaos, undermining experts, science, the media and the world order. He shits on allies and cosies up to enemies. Out of the fear and chaos he can gain wealth, power and satisfaction – gloating and preening on a stage, not seeing that others see him as a disgustingly bad smell.

Never have we witnessed such crass behaviour, such bad taste, such odious behaviour. He is destroying the glue that held us together for personal gain or emotional catharsis – like a child destroying his own toys.

He pardons murderers and crooks and has set loose an army of mindless, rabid goons to upset and enrage his ‘enemies’.

But life is precious. We should cherish every moment. I detect that he and his sycophantic extremists actually enjoyed the executions of Renee and Alex and the fury it unleashed.

Dictators and despots are all held in place by the cruel sadists that masquerade in uniforms. Whether it’s the Stasi, Gestapo, Morality police or ICE. They’ve propped up totalitarian regimes in Germany, Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, South America and now the USA.

A curse for the torturers and executioners who enable evil. A curse upon the despots.

Who would have believed that the USA could get so bad!

Murder is condoned by evil people.

Soon – There will be Justice!

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It may take a year or two, but Trump will be gone and the GOP will pay the price for allowing fascism and totalitarianism to blossom and flourish in the USA. Trump, with the sycophantic, opportunistic, cooperation of the GOP has empowered all the most obnoxious elements of American society from the KKK and a multitude of previously marginalised white supremacist groups to the conspiracy theorists, flat earthers and religious fanatics of the hard right and the Neo-Nazis and fascists of Project 2025. This unholy bunch of QAnon lunatics coalesced as MAGA and were united by their hatred of blacks, browns and liberals.

Trump has reached the heights through division and chaos. He deliberately undermined the established order, experts, science, institutions, media and law and order in order to project himself as the only truth and saviour of the world. He personally prospered enormously (wealth and power) out of this unholy alliance.

But he is an old ailing man. He never was either intelligent or learned. He doesn’t read or understand. And he is rapidly declining. His power is waning with his abilities. Soon he will die, be impeached, be locked up for his multitude of crimes, or simply ousted. Soon MAGA will rupture and the GOP will be unelectable for decades. Soon sanity will return.

When Trump is gone and MAGA becomes the rump of illiterate scum it is based around, sanity will return, science and experts will once again be seen as the basis of reason, the media will be freed, institutions (though imperfect) will be valued and stability brought back. Law and order will ensue.

Then there will be a period of accountability. Those in charge, like Kristi Noem and JD Vance, will be brought before the courts. The thugs and goons of ICE and MAGA will be dragged before the courts and tried for their crimes against humanity.

This new swamp will be drained.

Soon Renee Good and Alex Pretti and many more will receive justice and be lauded as the heroes they are!

Soon – justice will be done and we’ll emerge from the dark days of this fascist nightmare. Soon. Soon. Soon.

What is utterly inexcusable is:

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Not just the execution of good people – Renee Good and Alex Pretti – which is disgusting and unjustifiable –

But the administrations condoning of these murders. That puts them on a par with Putin and Iran.

You cannot flood cities with armed masked men who violently bully and shoot people with impunity. That is Gestapo tactics. That is what happens in a police state. It is not acceptable in a democratic, free country.

You cannot have those in charge immediately accusing good citizens who are peacefully using their democratic rights to protest being labelled as domestic terrorists. That is diabolical.

You cannot have government goons killing people – firing three shots into a woman’s face from close range – firing ten shots into a nurse shielding two abused women who had been violently shoved over by government thugs – gloatingly saying ‘You Fucking Bitch’ after shooting Renee dead or pumping ten bullets into Alex Pretti and saying ‘Boo Hoo’. That is inexcusable.

You cannot have Trump and Noem lying about the incidents. Renee Good was NOT driving at Jonathan Ross. She was clearly steering away. Alex Pretti had a legally allowable handgun in a holster with no intention of using it. It was taken off him before he was murdered. For Trump and Noem to blatantly lie and justify the murders by saying these two good citizens were domestic terrorists, that Renee was using her car as a weapon, that Alex was armed and dangerous, is a travesty of justice, law and order.

We cannot have the sheer hypocrisy of Trump and his administration. It is alright in their eyes for armed thugs to attack the Capitol and kill police guards while hunting down politicians. It is alright for Kyle Rittenhouse to take to the streets with an assault rifle and kill two people. But it’s not alrght for a law-abiding citizen to have a holstered handgun while filming the violence of masked ICE goons and protecting women from their violence. Talk about dual standards. This administration openly supports extreme right-wing groups like the Oath Takers and Proud Boys (actively recruiting them into ICE) and labels anybody filming ICE activities on their phones as far-left agitators and domestic terrorists. This is fascism in action.

What should have happened is obvious to any civilised person:

Each incident should be fully investigated by unbiased law enforcement and courts and those involved, Jonathan Ross and the nameless masked goons, made to try to justify their actions and be held accountable in a court of law – like any law enforcer.

Fortunately, we have the bravery of bystanders who are prepared to peacefully monitor and record the thuggery. Without them we would only have Trump and Noem’s lying accounts of what is going on. We can see. We have the evidence! Thank you all the brave people of Minnesota!

What is happening in the USA is an outrage – a stain on civilisation. The sooner these incompetent Nazis are out of power the better!

Trump’s Board of Peace looks like a group of extreme right-wing Tyrants and Despots!!

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Trump says:

It’s made up of ‘people he likes’.

It includes: Netanyahu (war criminal and genocide merchant), Putin (war criminal, holocaust threatener, invader of Ukraine and scourge of his own people) and then there’s talk of other right-wing nutcase fascists like Orban.

Does that look like a Board of Peace – or a Board of Criminals and War Lords.

Is TRump’s vision of the future a world run by force from fascist dictators?

Is he seriously proposing we replace the UN with a bunch of violent despots?

Right now it feels as if the world is being run by an imbecilic teenager with an IQ of 50, a short fuse, violent tantrums and the whole power of the USA at his disposal. He doesn’t think laws apply to him. He can blow up boats in international water, send in ICE to harass democrats, take over democratic cities, ignore congressional directive to release ALL the Epstein documents, invade other countries, kidnap Heads of State he doesn’t agree with and threaten allies!

It’s like dealing with an all-powerful child with Nazi aspirations.

Trump is trying to be judge, jury, warlord and King of the World.

The whole system of diplomacy, law and order and liaison has toppled. The whole universal system of trade and alliances has been weaponised.

The world has suddenly become a lot more dangerous and expensive. We live in the age where might rules, everything is transactional and greed is the order of the day.

Roy Harper and Renee Good

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I was reeling from the murder of Renee Good and the response by Trump, Vance and MAGA. I found it disgusting. A mother was callously shot three times in the face. She was described as a lesbian and called a domestic terrorist (as if her sexuality had anything to do with anything). I was shocked by the mocking and gloating that subsequently took place. She deserved it. She was peacefully protesting the lawful operations of ICE – as if that deserved to be shot three times in the face. What is going on in this horrendous tribal division where all humanity is lost. In the heated cauldron we seem to have lost all compassion, humanity and truth.

Then I found myself typing out a section written by Roy back in the late 80s and thought it pertinent:

This attitude manifested itself to me whilst shopping in the supermarket yesterday. Upon seeing a woman who was about to load up with ‘Cape’ apples, the lady I was with said to her ‘those are from South Africa, you know’. The woman smiled and put the apple she had hold of down, but I watched her because I was naturally interested in someone who would buy an apple with South African written all over it (Nb. the anti-apartheid boycott of South African goods was at its height in the late 80s). As soon as she thought that the lady I was with wasn’t looking, she went back and picked some up and continued on. I wasn’t surprised but I was annoyed and said to my consort ‘she bought them you know’. We passed her later on and I guess my friend couldn’t stop herself. ‘So, you bought them then?’ she said. The woman just said ‘Yes’ and walked away completely unconcerned, a statement in favour of apartheid, of absolute complacency. Careless in the extreme of how other men and women on the planet are being made to suffer. Just another partygoer.

This little true story is perhaps generally indicative of the manner in which humans treat each other and the world they live in at the moment. While I’m not a very public-spirited person myself, I’m of the opinion that the majority of my ‘leaders’ leave me standing when it comes to aloofness, greed, selfishness, vanity, megalomania, cowardice, pomposity, pretention, improbity and the like. I’m not in the same race. The stable door has been bolted ……… etc.

To my mind, permanently electing these kind of people to public office is tantamount to social suicide.

Toxic St George – the flag of Fascism!

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It’s all bollocks!

St George – the patron saint of England! renowned for killing a dragon! Supposed to epitomise the English and their spirit.

All bollocks!

To start with the guy was Turkish!

He was hardly a saint – being a bloodthirsty soldier who killed people!

There are no dragons!

So we venerate a complete nasty fiction!

Is this what we are meant to be proud of?

I see twerps going off to foreign countries dressed as medieval crusader knights as if this something we should be proud of too – as if these morons represent us – the English – a bunch of religious nutters who went off to the ‘Holy Land’ raping, torturing and slaughtering everyone they encountered! Thugs with armour. The sort of murdering psychopaths who should have been locked up! These days they dress up in order to provoke and inflame!

I see fascist chavs and morons wearing balaclavas, like the criminals they are, putting up flags of St George and illegally painting roundabouts and kerbs. They are vandals who should be arrested and locked up. It’s all a political craze instigated by Farage to scapegoat immigrants.

Immigrants are a problem but NOT the problem!

Britain is the 5th biggest economy but the British people are not rich. That’s NOT because of immigrants!! It’s because of inequality! It’s because we live in a system created by people like Farage where the wealth is channelled up to a tiny minority at the top. Most of Britain’s wealth is going to millionaires and billionaires not immigrants! Farage and Tice (like Trump) are creaming it in! These populists stir up trouble in order to profit from the fall-out!

The flag is meant to be the emblem of English unity and patriotism. It lost that years ago. That and the Union Jack were taken on by the fascists in a show of racist nationalism by such obnoxious Nazi groups like the National Front and British Movement and various football hooligans – all of which used to prowl the streets searching out minorities to beat up. The sort of company that Tommy Robinson kept!

When I see those flags I think of racist thugs and Nazis – the type of people my more socially minded, compassionate and informed ancestors fought off in Cable Street; the type of people we fought the 2nd World War to stop setting up a global authoritarian fascist state.

In my opinion the descendants of those thugs were the core of idiots who gave us Brexit, divided and broke Britain. They’re at it again with the same self-serving creeps in charge – Farage and Tice – looking to stir up, scapegoat, divide and conquer with all the hypocritical fervour (manufactured by greed) of Poundland Trumps.

Make Britain Great Again = Let’s beat the crap out of foreigners!!

Authoritarian Control

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First rule – control the media!

This is a Concentration Camp!

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No human being should be kept in these conditions:

We thought we’d put this kind of cruelty behind us with the Holocaust. It’s back!

Civilisation or Tyranny??

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Trump’s Parade strikes Terror into the hearts of Putin and Xi!!

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