I think about that quote a lot, because it so perfectly encapsulates a feeling that so many members of various ruling classes have experienced over the years.
In Portland yesterday, protesters marched past an ICE facility. They were scrupulously nonviolent and didn’t even stop in front of the building, but merely slowed down while passing in front of it.
ICE still responded by firing tear gas and flash bang grenades into the crowd, which included children.
ICE might as well be Richard II here. When ICE deploys torturous violence against children for merely being part of a peaceful protest, ostensibly (but not really) protected by the constitution, they are conveying a message:
We have a natural right to rule you, and publicly questioning that natural right warrants torture as a response until you and anyone watching remembers your place in that natural order.
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/01/31/labor-against-ice-portland-oregon-immigration-protest/
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