War & Peace Quote by Tom Metzger

The line lands like a recruitment pitch disguised as street wisdom: if the police are “as much an enemy as the others,” then every conflict becomes a single, seamless war. That framing is the point. Tom Metzger, best known not as a mainstream “celebrity” but as a prominent white supremacist organizer, talks here in the language of siege and betrayal, the two emotional accelerants of extremist politics. “Almost all cases now” is a strategic vagueness; it invites the listener to fill in the blanks with whatever grievance is already burning hot, while insulating the speaker from specifics that could be challenged.

The subtext is permission. If law enforcement is redefined as indistinguishable from other perceived opponents, then cooperation is treason and restraint is naïveté. It collapses moral categories: the institution that claims to enforce order is recast as just another gang, which makes counter-violence feel like self-defense. “Enemy” isn’t descriptive; it’s operational. It tells an audience how to sort the world: us versus everyone with a badge, a uniform, or institutional authority.

Context matters because this isn’t an abstract critique of policing; it’s the classic extremist move of weaponizing distrust in the state while also courting it when useful. By implying the police have flipped sides “now,” Metzger smuggles in a story of national decline and dispossession, a familiar narrative in far-right propaganda. The rhetorical efficiency is brutal: it takes complicated social friction and turns it into a clean target list.