Washington Turmoil, Minnesota Vigilance

 

Many have been touting a shift, a change, in popular sentiment, political response and even Chaos administration verbiage seemingly signaling a retreat, and have attributed this correctly to the stubborn and relentless bravery of Minneapolis residents (Rachel Maddow was among the most eloquent), in the wake of what is now regularly and openly being called the Alex Pretti murder by federal thugs.   Spontaneous or quickly planned protests brought thousands into the streets across the US over the weekend, even in places where a furious winter storm and frigid temperatures were descending on 80% of the nation's population this week.

But national and local reporters note that as of Tuesday night, Minneapolis was not celebrating, but remaining vigilant.  And there were over 300 sightings of ICE/Border Patrol actions there during the day, and another mother and her toddler caught up in violent attack.  It's not over.

There seems to be more resistance to the lies and cruelty and cowardice, in the country and reflected in words by politicians, if not yet in actions.  But we've seen these tactical pauses before in the inner sanctums of Chaos, lulling the perennially gullible and the legitimately exhausted. We are still, in the words of Senator Raphael Warnock, "witnessing the spiraling spiritual death of a nation, and it's the people who have to stand up and redeem the soul of our country."   

Apart from the Chaos administration slightly shuffling the deck of their fascist overseers, there was one notable action taken.  One of the top three Republican candidates for governor of Minnesota, Chris Madel, dropped out of the race because of the "unmitigated disaster" of the Chaos occupation.  Not only did he conclude that no Republican could win a statewide office because of it, he expressed his moral qualms at rampant racial profiling and the climate of fear instilled by federal thugs.

He did more that drop out of the race.  He seemed to signal that he's left the Republican party. "I cannot support the national Republicans' stated retribution on the citizens of our state.  Nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."

Meanwhile, news has begun to spread of something that happened a few days ago in the federal detention center in Dilley, Texas, where parents and their children caught in the Minnesota federal kidnappings are imprisoned.  They include Liam Conejo-Ramos, the five year old boy with the floppy blue cap and Spiderman backpack grabbed and hustled away with his father, who is becoming a national icon for these degenerate policies and actions.  

It seems that word of Friday's massive march in Minneapolis (latest estimate is 75,000 people marching in what was at that moment the coldest place in the world) had reached inside these walls, and on Saturday many inmates--particularly the children--staged their own demonstration, chanting "Let us go!" and "Let the children go!" 

Though a few lawyers who happened to be there were quickly moved away, images of the protest in an open area were caught by an Associated Press drone.  That's how Liam's mother reportedly caught her first sight of her boy.

Rachel Maddow referred to these immigration prisons as "black sites."  That term emerged in the post-9/11 fury, and during the Iraq war, as America bowed to the "new normal" of distant prisons in faraway countries built and maintained (but not acknowledged) by the United States, where suspected terrorists and others were sent without trial to be tortured and held indefinitely.  They went in and no information came out--they were "black sites," and in that sense the beginning of  brutalization contrary to law and American ideals, a deep spiral towards the spiritual death of this nation.

We became used to no longer being ashamed of being torturers.  Still, it was too shameful to have these black sites in our own country.  No longer.  They may not be water-boarding prisoners in Texas, but there's evidence that even there, in a prison for families, there is tainted food and water, and negligent medical care.  There are reports of relentless inhumane treatment in other US black sites, of what easily qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment--and this is without trial and therefore without a verdict, or a sentence.     

Liam and his father are in this prison despite being in the US legally.  The family's petition for asylum is active in the judicial system.

One of the lawyers who was present on the day of the demonstration was there to meet with clients that included a family with five children imprisoned with them, a 9 year old, a 16 year old, an 18 year old girl, and twins who turned five years old in the prison.  They've been there for eight months and counting.

The Dilley prison is a black site because there are no visitors, little if any oversight by media or even congressional representatives who are legally entitled to inspect at any time but have so far been denied entry.  Like everything the Chaos administration does regarding their so-called immigration actions, there is no accountability because there is no information.

Children, including at least one two year old, can find themselves in the routine of their Minnesota lives, suddenly kidnapped by heavily armed men in masks and combat gear, and six hours later imprisoned in this Texas black site.  These actions and these places shame this country, especially the powerful who remain silent and complicit, while some of them profit.     

Official Murder in Minneapolis--Again

 

He put his body between federal thugs and a woman they had assaulted and knocked down, then bent down to help her to her feet.  The thugs then ejected pepper spray into his face from inches away, forced him to the pavement and beat his head with the spray container.

He was prone on the pavement with seven federal thugs holding him down, his face being pressed to the ground, when federal thugs pumped ten bullets into his back and body, and fled.

Politicians by and large used their usual flat cliches in characterizing and criticizing this action.  It took an NBA player, Tyrese Haliburton, to say it plainly: "Alex Pretti was murdered."

It was an act of horrific, immense and cowardly brutality in Minneapolis, followed by the usual comprehensive lies by Chaos officials and their Republican enablers in Washington, that will echo through history, a stain on the name of the United States of America.  Its echo will remain loud this week, this year.

For relevant news on this as of Sunday, read Heather Cox Richardson's 1/25 post on Substack.

Minnesota Meets Chaos and Cruelty With Passion and Community

 

It was the coldest day of the year so far in a place that has very cold days.  Wind chill temperatures were around 30 below.  Nevertheless, they persisted. In early afternoon, tens of thousands (earliest estimate was 50,000) marched in Minneapolis against the federal armed invasion of their city and state.  

Towards evening thousands gathered in the Target Center for a rally. The New York Times quoted Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, praising the day's protests.  "We are meeting ICE violence with nonviolence," she said. "We are meeting their chaos and cruelty with passion and community."

There was a related protest earlier in the day at the Minneapolis airport which ended with an act of civil disobedience, as around 100 faith leaders were arrested by local police for briefly blocking car traffic (and later released.) 

The day began with a first in this wave of protests: a general strike that brought the Twin Cities to a virtual standstill on Friday morning.  Though first called by faith leaders and quickly supported by labor unions, this shutdown included hundreds of businesses that voluntarily closed for the day in support.

The action was statewide, so in addition to Al's Breakfast in Minneapolis and the Black Coffee and Waffle Bar in St. Paul, self-striking businesses included the Battleground Cafe in White Bear Lake, Cafe Meow in New Hope, Bliss Acai in St. Louis Park, and businesses in Duluth, Rochester, Edina, Richfield, Grand Marais, Excelsior, Two Harbors, Osseo, Prior Lake, Apple Valley, Stillwater, Shoreview, Crystal and other municipalities in every part of Minnesota.

A good many cafes and eateries in Minneapolis opened their doors in the afternoon to warm protestors and provide them with free coffee and soup.  One of these was The Lotus, run by Yoom Nguyen, quoted by CBS News. "This is not about money for us.  We've been here since 1984.  This community embraced our family when we were going through tough times, and we feel it's our turn to return the favor, bring some hope and some joy and some warmth to people."

Along the march route organizers passed out hand warmers and a kiosk gave out paper cups of Somali tea.

Commenting on the protest on MSNow, Nicole Wallace called it "an act of historic bravery."

MN: Day of Truth and Freedom

The havoc and horrific harm being caused by federal Gestapo across Minnesota is mobilizing the state's institutional leaders as well as the traumatized citizens.  The latest is a call by unions and others for what amounts to a general strike in the Twin Cities and throughout the state on Friday, January 23:

"Minnesota’s unions, progressive faith leaders and community activists are calling a general strike on Friday, encouraging Minnesotans to stay home from work, school and refrain from shopping — suspensions of normal orders of business to protest the presence of federal immigration agents in Minnesota.

Friday is “ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth & Freedom” — a statewide pause of daily activity to “stand together against the actions of the federal government against the state of Minnesota,” according to the website.

Demonstrators will march and rally in downtown Minneapolis Friday starting at 2 p.m."

So far over 100 businesses in the Twin Cities have announced they will close on Friday.

On Tuesday, the Minneapolis Chief of Police and other police officials held a press conference protesting ICE actions, which have included the harassment of off-duty local police officers, at gunpoint.  

Chief Mark Bruley cited "endless complaints" to the police about forcible stops and other "civil rights violations in our streets."  Several officers in his department and other nearby departments have been victims of aggressive and dangerous stops.  "Every one of these individuals is a person of color," he said.

After describing the violent stop of one of his officers, Bruley added, "I wish I could tell you that this was an isolated incident. In fact, many of the chiefs standing behind me have similar incidents with their off-duty officers," Bruley said. "This isn't just important because it happened to off-duty officers, but what it did do is we know that our officers know what the Constitution is, they know what right and wrong is, and they know when people are being targeted. And that's what they were."

Another press conference was held by representatives of major physician organizations in various specialties describing the lawless actions of ICE agents invading hospitals and clinics, and more generally citing the harm being caused both directly and indirectly (by causing such fear that people are afraid to seek needed medical care).

The doctor representing pediatricians called ICE interventions "atrocities."  She spoke of children being traumatized by sudden invasion into their homes by heavily armed thugs, as well as children handcuffed face down in front of their school.  "Horrific trauma," lifelong trauma, is one result.

One incident described was a mother with her child attacked in a clinic parking lot where she was going to fill a prescription for anti-seizure medicine.  The attack caused the child to have a seizure on the spot, while the mother was carried off to be transported to a detention prison in Texas. ICE is "traumatizing an entire generation" of children.

They also said that half of their regular hospital staff is afraid to show up for work, because they are Latin and Somali.  These are the people who braved the pandemic to save lives in these hospitals.

When asked if there are laws in the works to apply to these situations, one spokesperson said, "We can pass 110 laws but ICE is already acting outside the law."  The doctors, almost all of them women, were from across Minnesota, and those who didn't speak stood with tears in their eyes.

They promised that they were organizing ways to bring medical care to people too fearful to leave their homes.  "Minnesota doctors will stand in solidarity with our patients."

A Minneapolis resident provided her unofficial testimony on Facebook, which was then included in a daily meditation by Matthew Fox.  The situation, she confirmed, "is FAR WORSE than anything the mainstream media is presenting."  The number of videos, accounts of ICE raids, "beatings, abductions and other crimes" are too many to even count.  "Everyone I know here is shaken to the core."

The raids are "nonstop, day or night."  The sweeps in every public or semi-public place where people normally have the expectation of privacy, the violence to people driving in their cars, has been joined by door to door attacks--"kicking in the door armed to the teeth, entering illegally without a warrant and without batting an eye."

"These agents aren't out for any particular person.  Don't believe the LIES about picking up criminals.  They just grab whoever they deem non-white. Native Americans have been taken, and many are still missing. They are also abducting white legal observers, including those who offer no confrontation whatsoever."

"Yesterday, they violently abducted an autistic woman who was just trying to get to a doctor's appointment on a street they were occupying."  

In her Wednesday letter, Heather Cox Richardson passes this on: "ICE agents are hanging around schools, threatening children. Reg Chapman of CBS News in Minnesota reported today that ICE has detained a five-year-old preschooler after using him as bait to get someone in his house to open their door. Then ICE transferred him and his father from Minnesota to detention in Texas. His family has an active asylum case and it does not have an order of deportation, meaning they are in the U.S. legally."

The feds use of tear gas, mace and pepper balls against lawful protesters led to sanctions by a federal judge, though it was later countermanded at least temporarily by a Court of Appeals in a one sentence unexplained ruling.

The above witness echoes one of the doctors when she said, "I get so tired of hearing people lecture about what ICE can and cannot do legally.  Yes, we all know.  The problem is that ICE agents don't care, and do what they want."

On Wednesday AP revealed the existence of a memo within ICE asserting their thugs have a right to forcibly enter anyone's home without a judge's warrant, with only their own administrative warrant, in direct violation of law interpreting the fourth amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Also Wednesday, results of a YouGuv/Economist poll showed that 71% of Americans surveyed agreed that the United States "is out of control."

Dreaming Up Daily Quote

 "We cannot fan the flames of chaos.  That's what he wants."

Governor Tim Walz, appealing to Minnesotans to protest but peacefully.

Standing Together in Minnesota

 I have many fond memories of my visits to Minnesota and its Twin Cities.  Once I was there for a week or so during the winter.  From observation and my friends who lived there I learned two things: Minnesota people aren't afraid of the cold and the snow, and a primary reason they aren't is because mutual aid is ingrained in the culture.  If your car gets stuck in the snow, you won't wait long for passers-by or people who see you from their homes to come with shovels and big smiles, to dig you out.

That's why I am not surprised when I hear over and over the refrain from Minnesota people about why they're out there every time the federal thugs show up: I'm looking out for my neighbors.

Minnesota at the moment is the land of American heroes.  Facing at least 2800 heavily armed thugs who they now know will use violence against them, including lethal force, with impunity and without consequences, they continue to come out to face them in the streets, in even greater numbers.

After Renee Good was killed and the forces of Chaos spoke to support her killer and demonize her, I read a NYT column quoting MN Attorney General Keith Ellison suggesting that the only reason for this was to make Americans so afraid that they would cower in their homes, and look away.

Not in Minnesota, as it is turning out.  It's very volatile and dangerous, but thousands of federal thugs wreaking havoc, breaking laws with every breath and causing trauma, while trampling on the human rights of everyone now, disappearing children off to imprisonment--they can't make a move unobserved and unopposed.   

The besieged people of Minneapolis can now take heart from the six top federal prosecutors in Minnesota who resigned rather than be used in a smear campaign, and the four Civil Rights division prosecutors in Washington who resigned rather than accede to the Chaos orders to not perform the standard investigation of a fatal shooting by federal law enforcement.  These resignations reveal that Chaos is not even going through the motions of investigating this homicide, but is intent on smearing protesters, specifically the partner of Renee Good.  But they aren't getting away with it unnoticed or unopposed.

By looking out for their neighbors, regardless of where they came from, these Minnesotans are doubly expressing the best hope for America, both in what they are doing in the face of volatile thugs with military weapons, and in why they are doing it.  I can only express my vigilant support, and especially my admiration for their courage, as they up the game established in Chicago, pioneered in Portland and southern CA and wherever else in America the Chaos SS has brought violence and tears. 

No Good

 Let us return for a moment to sanity.  In Minneapolis a woman in a car was shot at three times at very close range and killed by an ICE agent standing next to the car.  Federal officials claim the officer was in fear of his life because she was attempting to run him over, and so the killing was justified.

Since pretty much the invention of the automobile, there have been no circumstances in America in which this homicide would be justified.  The driver was unarmed, and both hands were visible.  The officer provided no warning that he was threatening lethal force.  There was no outstanding warrant for the driver.  If the driver was blocking law enforcement, then she could have been ordered to move her vehicle, which she was in the process of doing when she was shot.  And the federal vehicles were unmarked.

A different officer shouted to her to get out of the car.  Even if she heard him (though it was noisy, and it doesn't seem he had properly identified himself), the penalty for fleeing is not death.  There is no police force in the country which would claim that attempting to slowly drive away from masked armed agents justifies lethal force, or even the discharge of a gun.

The claim on behalf of the officer that Renee Good was attempting to run him over is not credible given the copious video evidence.  But even if she were (the federal press release language is "weaponize a car"), the car was barely moving (and the video evidence shows her wheels were turned away from the agent), and all an agent in fear of his life had to do was to take two steps away from the car.  Besides, how could anyone expect to stop a car that close to him by shooting the driver?  

As the driver told the agent, they now had her car license number.  Even if she had successfully fled the scene, they could have arrested her later.  I don't know what the penalty for failing to obey a federal officer's order to get out of a car, or of fleeing the scene, but I'm pretty sure it is not death.

But the officer fired three shots into the car, apparently hitting Renee Good in the face and killing her.  The officer (or another officer) was caught on his own phone saying afterwards, "Fucking bitch."

The normal procedure then would be for federal and state officials to open an investigation into the incident.  Officials would express regret at the loss of life, the public would be assured that the officer would be off the streets pending results of the investigation, and would call for calm.

Instead, the FBI has frozen state law enforcement out of the investigation. Instead, before any investigation had at best gone beyond the beginning of on-site evidence gathering, federal officials from the head of Homeland Security to the Vice-President of the United States asserted as known truth that the officer's gunfire was justified,  and moreover that Renee Good was a radical leftist and a "domestic terrorist." No evidence was offered for either charge.  Being a radical leftist is not against the law (even if it were true, which apparently it is not), let alone a capital offence.  It is a political position in a political democracy.

"Domestic terrorist" is the more potent charge, given what basic rights have been violated in the name of fighting terrorism.  But in more normal times such a charge is accompanied by lots of evidence, of criminal activity or at least intent to engage in a terrorist act.  It is a very serious charge, reduced this time to shameless inflammatory and prejudicial rhetoric.  

There is no overt suggestion that Renee Good might be a terrorist, or even an illegal immigrant fleeing capture (though again, that wouldn't justify lethal force).  She was a a native-born American, a white woman and a mother of three, who lived blocks away.  Her dog was in the back seat.

But even a known domestic terrorist, sitting in a car unarmed, may be subject to arrest.  Not to being executed on the spot.  Not even in the Soviet Union would state agents have committed such an act in broad daylight in a public place.

The public response to this shooting has so far been more than a thousand protest demonstrations across the country. Tens of thousands rallied in Minneapolis. Protesters have already spanned racial and ethnic lines.  Further incidences of federal agents threatening lethal violence, including against protesters, were reported. The Renee Good homicide has provoked anger, which makes for volatile public situations.  It has provoked fear.

The fear is that the masked secret police can kill anyone and federal officials will encourage it.  This is identifiable fascism, and the half dozen other names that apply.   But there is another fear, perhaps even more basic.

The shooter's video--which he shot with his phone held in one hand while he shot Renee Good dead with his gun in his other hand--demonstrates that he was not in danger, that she was not threatening him in any way. Other video evidence so far suggests that his actions were at best reckless and at worst deliberate.  Which would make this what some prominent people have called it: murder.

That video was essentially released by the Vice-President, because he and Chaos in Chief say that it proves their version of events is correct. In other times this video might have been suppressed or altered, or otherwise claimed to be deceptive or doctored, because it clearly does not show what they say it shows.  But now--as in so much else said by this government of Chaos--the evidence is not disproven, it is just misrepresented--and not subtly or at the margins, but completely.  Often the Chaos assertions are wildly opposite to the realities demonstrated in various ways, including pictures and video that everyone can see.

This has been their practice since at least the first Homeland Hitler inauguration, but most importantly concerning the events of and in response to January 6, 2021 at the US Capitol.  There are hours and hours of video of what happened there.  There are witnesses, depositions, and mountains of evidence that convinced scores of juries to convict participants.  And yet, Chaos and his minions assert that it never happened.  And they were doing so before the 2024 election, but apparently enough voters chose to ignore this.

Now it must be clear to everyone that in this administration, the truth is solely what they say it is.  This puts us not only in the realm of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, but of  his Animal Farm, and in particular of Kafka.  In a Kafkaesque country, there is no recourse to reality.  Reality is what those in power say it is, at any given moment.  Even when few believe anything this government says.

It is time then to look at the resistance to totalitarianism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, particularly in the 1960s and afterward.  It was led often by writers as well as political figures who insisted, at great personal cost, on rigorously telling the truth.  They told the truth about their own incarcerations, about how officials claimed they were mentally ill and subjected them to drug treatments and horrific conditions.  Some even catalogued the drugs used on them.  They were scrupulous and relentless.  And eventually they prevailed.

Our fascist government is not yet a year old.  It is not yet deeply entrenched.  Some countervailing institutions still exist, and Americans are used to living in something like a democracy. This incident must be thoroughly and objectively investigated. The truth about Renee Good must be asserted against the lies, over and over.  The truth about this regime must be relentlessly exposed. They may fight harder with their backs against the wall.  But if this battle for truth is not won, the world that is coming with AI will be worse.

Let us return to sanity.  Let us return to at least trying to enact the good.

New World Chaos

What America used to be, to do--the Marshall Plan 1947

"We live in a world, "proclaimed psycho Stephen Miller, the most powerful voice in the Chaos White House, to interviewer Jake Tapper, "in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power.  These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time."

The United States has used force, particularly against countries much weaker militarily, from time to time over the past half century.  But no American policy maker would ever have used these words as justification. They are the words of many past despots, conspicuously reflecting the Nazi point of view. Is it just the end of hypocrisy for at least some political leaders, or the end of something else?

By kidnapping the head of state of Venezuela, however evil and illegitimate, the United States blatantly violated the UN Charter and the basis in international law that has limited global violence and kept us from constant chaos and fear.  These laws were enforced by the restraint of the major world powers.  

But there is no other real enforcement mechanism other than the mutual benefits that restraint brings.  For example, in freedom from maintaining a highly militarized society, almost always a dictatorship, and the economic freedoms associated with free trade.  These are apart from the manifold benefits for so many, of living in a relatively peaceful world--and a peacefully and effectively interrelated world.

Such an action is also against United States law, meant to support these international norms.  But a comatose Congress is the supposed enforcement mechanism.

In his Substack column, normally about the Supreme Court, Steve Vladeck concludes: "And so, as has been true in so many other contexts in recent years, a blatantly unlawful use of military force overseas will go un-remedied—because there’s no viable legal pathway to challenge it; and because the one branch of government historically in a position to hold the executive accountable in these cases (you might remember it—Congress) has become completely feckless not just in general, but in pushing back against unlawful unilateral uses of military force, specifically."

But "unilateral force" doesn't fully describe it.  There was no public discussion, no legislative involvement. The "nation" wasn't remotely behind it. Nobody voted for anything remotely like it.  At least three-fourths of Americans as reflected in polls are against it. Instead this is the use of  overwhelming military force by a small group of people, several of whom are clearly unstable. And apparently no way to stop them.

 Since the kidnapping and killing , there have been threats from the Chaos against Columbia, Mexico and Cuba (though Boss Chaos said Cuba's economy will collapse because of the Venezuela oil spigot being turned off, not requiring American bombs.)  But Steven Miller's comment was addressing not the situation in Venezuela (in which, according to one media report, Miller may take a more active role) but Sunday and Monday's increasing drumbeats of threats against Greenland.

Miller points out the mostly undisputed fact that no one is going to attempt a military defense of Greenland once the the United States moves to take it over. But if actual military occupation occurs, the Prime Minister of Denmark said it would be the end of NATO, because all its member nations are required to come to the defense of any member nation attacked militarily.  Denmark is a member nation, and Greenland belongs to Denmark.  Europe isn't going to send forces against the US, so NATO would dissolve.

Founding of NATO

The ramifications of a collapse of NATO would be immense.  After the conflagrations of two world wars, the United States led a new global world order, not only with the United Nations, but by fostering the unification of Europe and its close ties with the US.  Along with the Marshall Plan, that revived the economies of western European nations, and the economic intertwinings that it materially encouraged (leading eventually to the European Common Market and then the European Union), the mutual defense pact of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was essential.

The immediate effect of NATO dissolving would be chaotic.  What would happen to all the US military bases in Europe under NATO command?  Without NATO, would European nations expel American forces?  How would it affect Europe's ongoing fears of Russian aggression?  Inevitably, the presence of nuclear weapons would become a very real and active factor.  

The Chaos administration may rely on other forms of intimidation short of military invasion of Greenland. (One also wonders whether the US military, so far utterly compliant with the dictator in chief, would go so far as to attack a defenseless outpost of a European ally for no military or legal reason.)   But NATO, the United Nations and restraint of at least overt bullying as foreign policy have made the world what it is since World War II.  Which among other things is a world that could work together to address climate distortion, including its effects--even if those efforts so far have been been way too weak.  

So it is no wonder that in examining the economic as well as political future of the world, the Eurasia Group--a top political risk research group headquartered in New York-- has changed its emphasis on China as the greatest risk to the world.  It is the United States of Chaos, as a result of nothing other than its own choices.

"The United States is itself unwinding its own global order," said Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group's president and founder.  "The world's most powerful country is in the throes of a political revolution."

Vladeck writes of the Venezuela action within a larger framework that in addition to other concerns, has guided the United States in the world. He adds later: "But my own view is that the United States crossed a very dangerous line last night—not just legally, but morally...One can only wonder the price we’ll pay in the long term for stooping to that level."

It is the moral basis for restraint, and for the values it represented to the world (self-determination, non-aggression, compassion, rule of law, etc.) that has defined America to the world, and to itself.  What happens when that goes away, and we are just the world's biggest bully?  Two world wars taught our 20th century forebearers the answer.  

Poetry Monday: January First

  

                                Tomorrow, 

we shall have to think up signs,

 sketch a landscape, fabricate a plan

 on the double page

 of day and paper.

 Tomorrow, we shall have to invent,

once more,

 the reality of this world.

 Octavio Paz 

"January First"