It’s a charade rooted in fearmongering, cloaked in the rhetoric of “law and order” but animated by the same authoritarian impulse that called troops to Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. and cages to the border for immigrants. Memphians who think this military presence will only criminalize “the worst of us” need only look at the ICE detention center in nearby Mason, built on a former prison site and now holding undocumented immigrants caught in the dragnet of “tough on crime” posturing. Let this be our charge on the night shift: to shine light, speak truth, and refuse to be silent in the face of spectacle.
Author: Rev. Earle J. Fisher, Tennessee Lookout
Published at: 2025-09-16 21:00:34
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