As much as I believe that the Americans are inching closer to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World than George Orwell’s 1984, the extrajudicial killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti and the legal observer Rene Good earlier this month demand a rereading of Orwell. Orwell warned us about the owning of language to describe the opposite. “Combating antisemitism” is an example of this. “Law enforcement” is another one. When ICE agents violate the law, the U.S. Constitution, and any sense of human decency, it is preposterous and grotesque to refer to them as members of law enforcement. They are clearly something else. Believe your eyes.