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ICE is made up of the same unemployed, security guards who showed up in many cities across America to defend Kellie-Jay Keen. They dress the same with gaiter face masks, urban aka “fashion” camo, bulletproof vests, and lethal weapons, mostly guns but some other as well. Those same security guards were nowhere to be seen when activists tried to jump & attack women at the end of the protest. They literally just left. 

Violent actors did not distinguish between women who did & did come from the fences, where they had been caged in like chattel by the police, while protesting. It was the National Guard members who protect the Liberty Bell & Philadelphia’s own police officers who protected women from being beaten down in the street that day.  

I took a photo of a man in my family’s deli in September wearing a “U.S. Customs & Border Protection” shirt which was a 🚩 to me that a round up was coming because he has never been in before & I felt like we were being canvassed by someone ordering food. To see if we employ any noticeable immigrants in our kitchen (we don’t, but I know of many local places that do). I noticed him because I was sitting at a little two seater table & he was standing at the counter wearing camo pants that I immediately recognized as “fashion camo” of some sort because my ex husband was in ROTC as a teen & remained very interested & educated in various differences between different branches of the military even though he abandoned that plan as a teen & decided not to join. I am always glad because he wouldn’t have been around or my type if he stayed a war lover instead of becoming a peace lover & we wouldn’t have had my son & those 10 really fun good years of raising him together. 

So I asked a current former Navy friend Which camo it is because he is a good guy who reminds me of my ex husband but who Actually did go through with signing up & having to live on a submarine & handle nuclear technology as a young man. He knew it was Dessert Storm Chocolate Chip. I then used my photo to find the “uniform store” where I could easily buy those today online for cheap even though the military stopped using it around 1992-1993. 

My love of military history & study comes from my dad & our love of Orson Scott Card the problematic closeted Mormon author who introduced me to the world of men as a child but who also introduced me to a lot of concepts around philosophy & culture I wouldn’t be as interested in otherwise. Other than getting me obsessed with Ender’s Game my dad also had me watching things like The Last Starfighter. It is incredible to watch his worst fears come to life. Where Call of Duty & Battlefield Modern Warfare were actually used to train an entire segment of the young population to cheer for war & sometimes to participate in it. Where even my dad has become the evil DT supporter cheering for the deaths of innocent civilians. Even though he was ringing the alarm bells before anyone else. Through drugs & television he’s living in his own version of Fahrenheit 451. Another sci-fi book/movie that should have made him immune to what is happening but didn’t. 

I googled why the CBP agents are here. We don’t have a “border” other than the Atlantic Ocean & I’ve never heard of people being dropped by boats into NJ from other countries for illegal immigration before in my life. It turns out that in July of 2025 the Lakehurst Naval base started housing 1000-3000 immigrant detainees. There was a minimal backlash online in local news orgs but then it seems something else distracting must have happened in the news because nothing came of that & it seems it just happened without anyone really noticing or doing anything about it. 

I also read about the places in New Jersey where ICE & CBP members have eaten a full lunch at an establishment like my own & then arrested all the people who work there & served them. 

The men who are getting off their jollies from finally being able to put on a makeshift “uniform”, while probably being kept out of every other sector of the military or militarized amerikan police force because of their glaring 🚩 s, are now assassinating civilians in the street for peacefully resisting their illegal tactics that go against our the Constitution which is what makes these States in any way United. 

The same type of goonish imps that are doing the killing in Putin’s name in the Ukraine 🇺🇦 & who are murdering civilians & starving children in Gaza 🇵🇸 in Netanyahu’s name are the ones here who are fine with brandishing weapons & acting like this is some HBO show or video game where people aren’t actually hurt by gunfire instead of real life. 

The answer is not to manufacture more guns. It is not 3D printing guns. Guns will never free humanity. Humanity can only be freed when we stop worshipping violence as an end to any means. It isn’t. 

Destruction can never build the society we all want. Destruction can never give us the future humanity is capable of & that we deserve. 

We will survive without oil. Humanity will survive if it gets hotter. We will never survive without others. Humanity only achieves through collaboration. 

Love,

Jackie Lane 

We all would have voted for Robin Williams

But the man hung himself with a belt. 

Donald Trump tried to enact a coup in 2020 that was unsuccessful. In 2024 he successfully enacted a coup by using billionaire technocratic oligarchs to buy the election & install new digital  & more easily hack-able voting machines. 

I have been thinking a lot about the movie Man of the Year. How right now we have someone who was elected purely on reality TV popularity alone. Our very own Zaphod Beeblebrox to hide the actions of the paper pushing Vogon war generals. 

The thing I hate most about Elon Musk is how he’s clearly one of those bros who pretends he’s read certain books to seem smart or “one of the group” when you know at most he read the google summary & watched the movie. 

I dislike Tolkien because he’s such a narcissist that he wanted to “create” a fantasy history for “white” people because to be white is to be divorced from your culture’s actual lineage of myth. Whiteness (and blackness for that matter) basically means you have been successfully turned into a cog, a part, an extension of a type of person instead of actually knowing who you are & where you came from. It’s a lot easier to control people when you teach them that their families & histories were nothing but “abusive”. Instead of trying to understand & reveal the past in the modern era, many are trying to control the past & shoehorn it into a box it is never going to fit into. 

Donald Trump has us so focused on whether or not we’re going to “win”. He got us to completely ignore that some of us are just excited to play the game. Those of us who just want to be included and be a participatory member of society.  

The civil war of public shootings which have been enacted by a loud majority, upon a minority who is focused on peace, has been going on for quite some time. That is why we’re involved in the 3rd global war now. With russia, china, & amerika taking stake in their respective territories. I worry about the strength of the EU. The first blow by Britain was strong but came to be such a public mistake. I hope the continent where the people have actively chosen not to forget the 2 world wars, & are still very close generationally to the loss felt, will shield us from the worst of what is to come. And of course Canada has always stood up to amerika. The real North of the Civil War, where formerly enslaved people had to actually escape to, to be free. 

Right now we’re in the Wizard of Oz & the projector, the flame thrower & the hot air balloon are unfortunately how you’re reading this right now. Whether on your “phone”, “computer” or “tablet” I guarantee you’re on your favorite screen right now to read this. 

It’s the only way. 

We cannot throw away the baby with the bath water. We need incremental change to a world where we acknowledge, accept & understand the risks of these new technologies. Whether it be brain tumors & cancers from phone radiation & cell towers, poisoning everyone’s food & water with “data center” vampires to satiate our craving for content, or the unspoken mental health crisis gripping most of human society inflicted upon us by the technoligarchs who love to sell us addictive behaviors. 

The Sphere in Las Vegas is a great example of what I mean. The Sphere was obviously built by very wealthy people to be an attraction & make “profit for investors”. But somewhere out there are the (probably) young artists who got to work on the remaking of the Wizard of Oz. Some actual person embraced the idea of AI infecting the art world so early on that they were willing to take individual things on the screen & pull them out of the original 1938 film to make them feel immersive & as if they had come to life. Like the trees in the forest outside of Oz. 

A team of people invested a lot of energy into all that man made magic.

It’s no mistake that the Sphere & one of the most popular musicals of our time, Wicked, which is much more socially beloved than anyone previously thought a theater musical turned movie could become in this overly produced era, are both based on the political underpinnings of the Wizard of Oz which was written directly in between the amerikan civil war & the establishment of social services in the United States.

The artists who helped make the version of the Wizard of Oz for the Sphere & who worked on the movie version of Wicked understand that they can only do so much to effect change in this very anti-art, anti-history world the technoligarchs have created. That if they are to make any change at all, it will be with the help of their art loving friends & by using the powerfuls' resources against them, right under their noses, to tell meaningful stories. Stories that people who were given A’s for just being “who they are” will never be able to comprehend the depth of. So they can be hidden right in front of their eyes. They’re so zoomed in they can only see it as an invisible dot on an invisible dot. When those of us who know we’re part of a collective cannot help but have a macro view. 

My mom always says, “sometimes there’s only one person between you & the thing you want in life so you have to get along & negotiate with them.” My spin of that to my son was, “I don’t make the rules, we all collectively make the rules. If you want to have a say in who makes the rules you need to know what they are & how to play the game.” 

We are all in a gamified existence. We have limited choices. But for now we still Have Choices. We still have art. They are destroying the NASA library. But some wiley librarian out there has hoarded copies. I know it.  

We need to realize that we may be stuck in another man’s game but it is our choice whether or not to work together for the incremental changes & understanding that is needed right now, or to sit out & not play at all.  

Every gamer should know that most good games have a collective element & all the hardest games had a manual to learn from & later, a message board. Some of us are too focused on winning & have lost the love of the game. I’ve seen enough high school & college football games, to see my son play baritone saxophone & march on the field, to know that no one enjoys watching a massacre. Where one team is clearly stronger than the other & kids on the weaker team just keep getting dragged off the field hurt.

We saw during the 2024 US presidential campaign & when Luigi Mangione shot healthcare CEO Brian Thompson that the people who thought they were immune from war have been targeted. I am sure all people at that level have hired “private security guards” aka soldiers now & created another “billion dollar industry” so the bourgeoisie won’t get that chance again likely any time soon. Even the dogmatically pro-gun nuts, like Charlie Kirk was, must have hired “private security” soldiers now. Because nothing can stop a bad guy with a gun but another bad guy with a gun. 

Or so I am told. 

When will the violent majority stop being allowed to trample over our right to peace? 

I don’t know 

but I do know it will start with incremental change. With painfully convincing one person at a time out of their “us & them” mindset so we can start solving all these problems the technoligarchs are creating. 

Until Next Time… 

Love, 

Jackie Lane 

P.S. - Usually one, or at most, two people inspire a thing I am writing & this one came with many muses. I never name people directly but I know whomever it is would notice which part of what I wrote came from them. 

 PPS - This was written on January 6th, 2026 & never pressed the post button. I should have because I now find this entire piece irrelevant or at least missing a huge part because of the murder of Renee Good in Minneapolis. I am writing another piece about that but it does not belong here & may take me a few days to edit as I have a lot to say. Or at least I want what I say about it to be very specific. Anyway I hope this is in some way relevant or enjoyable to anyone. Love and revolution be with you all.