For better or worse, [NB: for the “worse”] in an era where the quest for efficiency far overshadows the salutory medium of conventional communication, the ubiquitous use of abbreviation has become notably compelling, in our daily lexicon. It appears to be deemed tiresomely passé to currently use conventionally descriptive vocabulary or an officially designated title when a facile abbreviation will suffice. The predictable use of emblematic abbreviations appears to be perceived as an indication of modernity and a sophisticated comprehension of the relevant subject.
Thus, known organizational entities are referred to as the U.S.A., NLRB, NATO, NBC, NRA, AFL-CIO, NASA, E.U., SCOTUS, SLA, NAACP, the UN, IRS, and the like. Personal status and relationships have likewise been signified by such terse descriptions as BFF, LL, LGPTQ, ASAP, SRO, CPA, ATTY, SECY, FBI, H.O., and B.W.
In addition, and by stark contrast to the plethora of abbreviated benevolent entities, exemplified by the existence of benevolent and humanistic organizations, such as, WHO, USAID, UJA, CARE, UNICEF, OXFAM, are the sadly instructive examples of Man’s perverse capability for inhumanity and evil behavior, represented by two reprehensibly perverse and un -American, abbreviated entities which shall eternally constitute eradicable blemishes on the record of America’s traditional aspirations for liberty and equality. The notoriously evil and nightmarish Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and the contemporaneous, Gestapo-like Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (“ICE”).
The KKK (Ku Klux Klan) has been recognized as the first “Terrorist Organization” in the Nation’s history. It was (and perhaps still may be) a violent and homicidal extremist group of Protestant, White citizens that programmatically terrorized and killed American black citizens, Jews, and Catholics. The shameful record of these religiously bigoted monsters will forever be an ugly blemish on the historical record of the avowed aspiration of our Democratic Republic for ultimate, universal equality.
Analogously contradictory to the Nation’s constitution, laws, and historical aspirations, an abbreviated organizational travesty, the handiwork of the would-be dictator, Donald J. Trump, with the perverse approval of his abbreviated lemmings, the large, populist horde of “MAGA” sycophants, has created a functioning nightmarish treplication of the horrors of the KKK, by his use of the abbreviated Importation and Customs Department, (“ICE”) to the m asked terrorizing, arrest, prosecution and atavistic banishment of tan-colored (Hisopanic) American residents to extra-punitive foreign incarceration, without just cause or the very rudiments of American “due process.” This modern-day, Trump-inspired, despotic travesty may conceivably be seen, because of its empirical metastasis and governmental encouragement, to exceed the nightmarish toxicity of the mounted and hooded KKK.
The abbreviation “ICE” is humanistically and legally incomparable with the far more significant abbreviation, “USA,” and must immediately be relegated to its overflowing dumpster of discarded historical garbage.
-p.
plinyblogdotcom 