The obedient ones
The cold isn't meteorological. That it's cold in January is good news, especially for those of us who are constantly anxious about climate change and are lucky enough to have a warm roof over our heads. The cold isn't low temperatures or collapse: it's the snow falling on an old Europe. The cold and the collapse are those democratic dictators who parade their evil openly and with complete impunity because they're armed to the teeth. But, in reality, this cold doesn't freeze, because it's neither new nor do they mount secret operations trying to disguise invasions, depose presidents, and install puppets. Now it's done openly. A bit like the Louvre robbery. As if the whole world has given up on protecting itself. The world no longer hides behind a few... curtains And it shouldn't surprise us. It should only overwhelm us.
What's truly cold, what's freezing, isn't a Trump hungry for oil and greed, but those who carry out his orders and those of all these global despots. How The immigration agent who shot and killed a woman in MinneapolisA man who chose to succumb to barbarity and end the life of a person who had committed no crime and who, as seen in the video that subsequently circulated, did not justify any self-defense on the part of the officer. But since everything is absurd, the Department of Homeland Security justified it by saying that the woman was trying to run over the officers and that it was a case of "domestic terrorism." The video proves that there was no attempt to run anyone over and that the woman was murdered in cold blood by a 21st-century Eichmann who was "doing his job." Arendt again and again. Her banality of evil more present and painful than ever. New jailers of concentration camps, new "normal" people turned into murderers who are "doing their job." The enforcers of criminal ideologies that no longer create a dystopia but paint a chilling reality.
The victim, Renee Nicole Good, was a white woman observing the raids that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is conducting in various US cities. People who voluntarily monitor the behavior of these agents and witness human rights abuses. Testimonies and victims. Renee Nicole Good was a white woman. With her murder, Trump and his cronies warn that any defense of human rights, whoever carries it out, can be punished with death. There are no curtains. There are no euphemisms. There are guns loaded with bullets. There is much evil and much banality of evil. It's freezing cold.
Indignation and protests have filled some US cities with hundreds of people. However few they may be, it is these people who warm us all. They warm our skepticism and combat cynicism. They will say it's useless. But they make a difference against absolute silence. And they remind us that, just as there are jailers, there are people who continue to defend freedom. Human rights are not trampled on by all humans. Nor can one judge those who are afraid. We are all afraid of freezing to death in the face of barbarity. And it is that fear that helps us move forward. It is easy to generate fear when they spend the day threatening. Because Minneapolis is today a city covered in snow and state violence. And the only thing we know for sure is that winter will end and that, nevertheless, we will have to continue bundling up.
