It’s too late– the leopards came for my face already.

It’s already too late to hide from retribution by the winning side. The winners have an active agenda of seeking out and punishing those who have opposed the new regime. The enemies list goes way, way back, to Hillary Clinton days and before.

Then there is the notional “Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party”, whose motto is, “I didn’t think they’d eat my face!” The idea is that a “limousine liberal” is all in for this party until the leopards come for her face.

Anyway, I was sixteen in 1970 when a pro-government South Vietnamese “intellectual” group visited Harvard College. They met, about four of them, on a stage in front of an audience of over a thousand young students who booed continuously, so loudly that no-one could be heard. Time magazine did a big story on it, with a photograph of the student audience. My room-mate was shown with his middle finger raised. I was sitting next to him, but I was just out of the frame. So they almost came for my face, or would have, if right-wing doxing had existed then. Surely facial recognition applied to the photo would have identified all the students and allowed them to be expelled.

Protests like that could never succeed at today’s Harvard. The pro-Palestinian encampments that did take place were roundly condemned and the protesters were involuntarily separated from the College. At another college, police withdrew and allowed pro-Israeli vigilantes to attack the encampment.

Watch out, the leopards will come for your face next.