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Issue: 31 March 2026
A Tale of Two Cities: Las Vegas and Minneapolis
The Iceman Cometh: Tom Homan, and the vile, ignorant, and obese homosexual, Ernst Röhm
(With apologies to Charles Dickens and Eugene O’Neill)
by Joseph Warren, Editor
copyright 2026
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“It was the worst of times; It is the worst of times.”
It is difficult to make a majority of Americans happy today. In fact, it may well be impossible, unless happiness comes from distributing (or promising to distribute) billions of dollars to offset the alleged pain speciously associated with COVID, or as a “dividend” for obeisance, such as supporting the many schemes regarding wealth distribution owing to a (or some) federal program’s reduction (DOGE) through layoff or termination. None of which has actually occurred.
But we are in a war, now, and the Epstein Files will never really be made public. While I’m thinking about it, what the hell happened to Maduro (not that I really care)? Our president pardoned who last week? Of course there’s no Global Warming: I’ve always worn only a tank top in January and no pants, and tell me again about Iran begging to negotiate a conclusion to the war? (Is Trump clandestinely communicating with a very deferential Persian Sock Puppet?) What the hell is happening...
Our elections testify to our unhappiness, serving chiefly to bring to office those who are perceived by a majority of our crippled electorate the least offensive of candidates. Something must be broken, or maybe as so many have said from the days of its first formulation in Greece, Democracy will never work as it is idealized (from a realist perspective).
“Why aren’t you registered Democrats?” a long-term associate asked us a few weeks ago, seeking to recruit us to her Arizona Leftist cause. As sentient Independents, how may one respond to such an insipid question?
Whether Left or Right, misery, to some extent, prevails in some aspect of our society. Today, the issue is Immigration - legal and illegal - at the fore of which are the actions of ICE, specifically, the ERO (Enforcement and Removal Operations) and for very good reasons.
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Governor Tim Walz
It’s not often that I’m stunned by a news report wherein someone who is absolutely innocent of doing any evident wrong classified traditionally as a Capital Offense, is extrajudicially executed by US authorities: such was the case in Minnesota - twice - very few weeks ago, although it seems like years past in psychotic Trump World. Yet I, like many, was shocked, appalled and ashamed, but you don’t remember the events to which I am referring, do you? Too long ago, just like Bush’s Iraq-Afghan conflict in 2003… Trump’s redux 2026.
In the past I have always tended to pass off misdirected violence as: It wasn’t me, so… or, he must have done something… or, an unfortunate series of events of no one’s fault, all of which is negated by video evidence to the contrary in both Minnesota tragedies.
Startlingly so, in the case of young Ms. Good. I confess I swooned as I watched the first released unadulterated bystander video, and at 76 years of age I’ve lived through much violence and brutality and death, first-hand and otherwise. I thought I saw it all in all possible forms of blood and treachery. But in that video clip, the ICE officer thrust himself in harm’s way at the front of her car (very quickly) as she was about to drive away, leaving no doubt he was fully intent on shooting the woman at the wheel and only needed to construct the fallacy of provocation. (Why are you not outraged?) And he did so without trepidation baiting her into a controlled-uncontrollable scenario and result.
It was his intent. He wanted to kill her. I saw all I needed to in his eyes to reach that judgement. I knew that the claim would be that she had Weaponized her car. Of course, that was the official statement.
The agent will likely remain free of any legal guilt under our administration. And that is societally cataclysmic for our country representing a shift not unlike Berlin in the 1930s. (If our President Trump hasn’t pardoned the ICE agent at this writing, I know he will.)
The “Horst Wessel (Song)”
(Horst Wessel Song: A song that glorified the death of one of Hitler’s Brownshirts)
Any high school student knows that Hitler came to power at a difficult time in Germany’s history following the first of modern epic European conflicts and after the country was severely rebuked and punished via Versailles. At that time - the early 1920s - Germany was devastated; its People were emotionally crushed; its institutions of Law were ravaged; its Industry was usurped and eliminated; and Debt of astounding proportion promised nothing but misery for decades to come.
Enter Ernst Röhm, a vile, despicable misanthropic overweight homosexual who gravitated to leadership of the Sturmabteilung (SA), better known as Stormtroopers, or commonly, Brownshirts.
The SA grew to be a vast and formidable force who operated far beyond the reach of the people and those responsible for society’s governance, very much like ICE today. They were very often a Death Squad operating in advance of, and alongside the Nazi party’s SS (Gestapo), and far more influential than the much smaller, and less enthusiastic Reichswehr under President Paul von Hindenburg.
Most importantly the SA’s recruits were, prior to their affiliation as Stormtroopers, uneducated, lower-class laborers or out-of-work tradesmen, much like ICE today, who found themselves unemployable in Germany’s mired and virtually non-existent job market. They were sometimes criminals, sexual deviants, or just plainly Thugs. Others were just angry. Very angry.
They needed to Hate and to Inflict Injury and, whenever remotely justifiable, Death. They found the perfect vehicle in Röhm’s SA.
There are certainly similarities of somewhat lessened extremes in Röhm’s counterpart in our country, Thomas Homan, our Border Czar, (not to characterize him as an ignorant, overweight, depraved, aging homosexual - I have no insight into his sexuality).
So, Mr. Homan under direction of President Trump, like Röhm under Hitler, took it upon his organization to rid Minneapolis of Illegal Aliens, much the way the Hitler regime sought to counter the growing influences and effects of the burgeoning and vocally troublesome Jewish and Communist and otherwise Disagreeable populations in Germany, redirecting a nation’s frustration at having lost the war to a handy defenseless diversionary element while viable solutions to Germany’s countless problems were obfuscated.
To preserve Hitler’s leadership, procedures and laws were promulgated governing elections, and extreme penalties aligned with achieving the desired result were introduced and enforced, at any cost. Much as we’re heading today.
Las Vegas, Nevada: Governor Joe Lombardo
Governor Lombardo said, “I know better than to draw conclusions related to law enforcement action without having all the facts at my disposal and I encourage all Americans to attempt to do the same…” Wise words uttered at a difficult time.
Nevada, particularly Las Vegas, is a state heavily dependent on workers whose efforts serve the needs of tourists, construction trades, and myriad other critical tasks, and since white people are not really motivated enough to perform this type of work with a sense of reliability and commitment, Las Vegas tends to rely on immigrant labor, who are, conversely, motivated by necessity and presumably spend far less time either smoking dope or texting or posting ignorant or useless videos.
In 2025 the number of Nevada ICE deportations totaled about one-thousand, few of which were the result of orchestrated raids by ICE. Rather, their intake occurred as a product of the existing system in-place whereby someone who commits a crime is caught, arrested, background-checked, and if he/she is illegally here in our country, he or she will likely be deported following procedural denouement because they were arrested for committing a crime, thus meeting President Trump’s originally stated objective of deporting dangerous criminals, as opposed to some guy named Enrique who maintains your yard, or washes your car, or stocks shelves in your local store, or pours your concrete patio, or… whatever, to feed his wife (who probably also works) and their children, and provide them with shelter and buy the products you make and sell, and gladly take on the household tasks you either can’t or won’t do.
No one is shot. Bystanders are not maimed. Homan’s ICE Stormtroopers are not roaming the streets with drawn loaded weapons. Instead, our Police Officers who are trained professionals, act as qualified, capable conduits through which those who meet certain criteria are dealt with in a manner consistent with an evolved society.
No more roving bands of masked marauding misfits lobbing Riot gas into crowds of those who shouldn’t be imputing themselves into volatile situations exacerbating an already tense and dubious ill-conceived gathering.
Our country must adopt the Nevada model before we implode.
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