And who shall I say is calling?

So, they came in the night and arrested Mahmoud Khalil. I am a Jew and a Zionist. My Zionism, according to some, puts me "to the right of Attila the Hun." I won't contest it. Mahmoud Khalil is someone whom I regard with enmity. He is someone who, I suspect, wants me dead. Or if not me personally, then the 8 million or so of my coreligionists who reside in Israel.

None of this is salient. What is salient that they came in the night and arrested Mahmoud Khalil. The person going about his daily life was "disappeared" by the United States Government. The Destroyer has been loosed in our nation, and just because it destroys your enemy does not make it your friend. With the Destroyer loosed, no one is safe. It does not discern. Its power is arbitrary.

The salient thing is that they came in the night and arrested Mahmoud Khalil for his dissent. I do not agree with his particular dissent, but I too am a dissenter. As unsafe as protests like the ones he led made me feel, I feel far more unsafe because they came in the night and arrested Mahmoud Khalil. For his dissent.

And for whom else might they come, and for what matters of dissent?