"You're as cold as ice."
Is it mere coincidence that these are lyrics by a band named Foreigner?
This past week's tear gassing was a statement of contempt and disdain, of cruel calculation from a government, from a President, who has chosen brutal mistreatment as this country's response to those seeking fulfillment of the promise our country once offered to those in desperate straits.
And the release of the canisters brought forth tears of sadness and anger here as well as in Tijuana.
The world is a place of grave disorder with myriad factors creating instability in regions around the globe. And the mandate for us is to open our minds to the possibilities of what need be done, what we can do, to quiet the chaos and stop the bleeding. But we have made a decision to close our emotional borders, our vision ever more myopic, until we are near blind to the sights and sounds of the dismay and distress of others.
A heart turned cold as I.C.E.
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