{"id":2601,"date":"2020-07-24T02:45:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T08:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:08","slug":"a-summer-of-blood-and-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2020\/07\/24\/a-summer-of-blood-and-despair\/","title":{"rendered":"A summer of blood and despair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/valentin-salja-9kbaq1xoIr0-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/valentin-salja-9kbaq1xoIr0-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"965\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2602\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The government is willing<br \/>\nto do harm to your enemies<br \/>\none day<br \/>\nwhen your enemies are gone<br \/>\nit will come for you<\/p>\n<p>People beaten and disappeared<br \/>\nPinochet has come to Portland<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re the \u201cbad\u201d ones today<br \/>\nso you say it&#8217;s okay<\/p>\n<p>fabricated boogeymen<br \/>\nan American way of life<br \/>\nBlack, Italian, Irish, Jew, Hispanic<br \/>\ncommunists, socialists, gays, liberals<br \/>\nWho is next for your cage?<\/p>\n<p>You think it won&#8217;t be done to you<br \/>\nthey have yet to put you in their sights<br \/>\nEven Ernst R\u00f6hm thought he was safe<br \/>\nbut the long knives came for him anyway<\/p>\n<p>How long before you&#8217;re Philando Castile<br \/>\ncomplying<br \/>\ndying<br \/>\nbecause a pig smells weed<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s only tyranny when they come for you<br \/>\nbut you&#8217;re already on a list<br \/>\nyou just don&#8217;t know it yet<\/p>\n<p>unmarked, unidentified, unknown<br \/>\nin kevlar vests with automatic weapons<br \/>\nsnatching citizens<br \/>\nthey&#8217;ll make sure you&#8217;re dead<br \/>\nand legally they were never there <\/p>\n<p>the kakistocracy needs to be fed<br \/>\nrubber-stamping the whims of a would-be dictator<br \/>\nthe \u201cgood people\u201d cheer<br \/>\nas \u201cvery fine people\u201d are crushed by the throat<br \/>\nsilencing their voice<\/p>\n<p>Hate radio pulsates through the veins of the good people<br \/>\nOANN, RT, Washington Times<br \/>\nfull of supplicants to the infantile \u201cking\u201d<br \/>\nIgnorance prevails<br \/>\nas their sole desire is to destroy those very fine people<\/p>\n<p>Valery Legasov warned us<br \/>\nour lies incur a debt to the truth<br \/>\nthat debt now needs to be paid<\/p>\n<p>Dictators rarely die of old age<br \/>\nthe American Gestapo cannot prevail<br \/>\na wall of moms have started the call<br \/>\na naked woman performed a ballet<br \/>\nWhat song will you sing before the jackboots come to town?<\/p>\n<p>The summer isn&#8217;t even over<br \/>\nbut look at what we&#8217;ve endured<br \/>\nwhen will it end<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s time to jail the orange clown and his insane posse<br \/>\ntheir brutality has been embedded our souls<br \/>\nin the bloodied faces of the innocent<br \/>\nit will be remembered tomorrow<br \/>\nin the trauma of our memories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[139,179,258,285,377],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-fear","tag-history","tag-news","tag-poetry","tag-trauma"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3649,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions\/3649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}