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Is This the Moment?
A lot of us no doubt have been wondering what act, by whom, will catalyze an uprising against the increasingly oppressive regime? I remember years ago an ABC program that demonstrated that good people will remain frozen in the face of wrongness until someone moves, someone acts, and then all of a sudden everyone moves to confront evil. So it is that many of us are watching and calculating and simply need to see the flow start and then we, too, will add out weight to the change that must come.
As many of you may recall I attended my first protests in 2020 in Sacramento against Covid restrictions that were trashing the livelihoods of small businesses, running over the rights to religious practice and assembly, and generally oppressing the people. The protests had little, if any, effect. Covid fear was high then, and as it waned in the latter part of the summer California calculatedly eased restrictions just enough to stave off dangerous discontent. When California started ramping oppression up again toward the end of the year is when I moved to East Tennessee.
And now our national oppression is in full force. Well, not actually full force if you have read Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago. But certainly at unprecedented levels in this country that for so long embraced individual rights and freedoms. As we have been watching this regime take control and promote destructive policies, we have wondered how long will the people stand for it? What will cause the people, whom the regime sees as an existential threat, to see the regime as an existential threat to them? When will they make demands for change that cannot be ignored?
Maybe, it is the agony of Shana Chapell. Chapell is the mother of slain Marine Kareem Nakoui. She was at Dover AFB with pResident Biden to observe the arrival of the caskets of her son and colleagues from Afghanistan. She took the opportunity to tell the pResident exactly how she felt about him and his role in her son’s death. She then went on social media to share with the nation. And what was the response of the powers that be? Facebook and Instagram suspended her accounts.
But Chapell is not going to be silenced. She says that after she buries her son in California she will be driving to DC to set up camp outside the White House until Biden resigns or is removed. Will others join her? Have enough Americans had a belly full in order to make her be a rallying point? Will we start a countdown on the days of Biden like we did with the Carter-Iran hostage crisis? Is this enough of a pan-partisan issue that we can take off the team jerseys and demand change together?
I know that if Biden resigns or is removed we get Kamala. And if not her, then Nancy. Ordinarily, this would be the best insurance for Joe Biden, but as Dan Bongino says: it doesn’t matter. It’s a start and a necessary start. There needs to be some movement. This needs to leave the punditry and get into the streets. And by streets, I mean streets. No entering federal buildings. But show up in numbers. And share in as many ways as possible to defeat censorship. Peaceful, but persistent.
The regime wants us to feel isolated, powerless, and irrelevant. Only the numbers will count. If we go into the streets in numbers the message will be clear. First to our fellow Americans: You are not alone. Next to the regime: Our numbers are too great to resist.
If this is not the moment, when will it come?
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At first, I thought this was a typo. Now I realize it’s an accurate descriptor for Biden . . .
they effing suspended her accounts!
I’m sure this will receive the same coverage that Cindy Sheehan did. <eyeroll> What was the term that was used? Moral authority. To Cindy’s credit she didn’t change when Obama took over. The media did though and stopped covering her.
Precisely. Cindy was media useful under Bush and not under Obama. Shana Chapell needs to be supported and publicized in whatever way possible and numbers need to join her to make censorship ineffective.
I think that the Marine Lt. Colonel, Sherrer (sp?) is also playing a role here. I think they speak for hundreds of thousands of military members and families that want some accountability.
How in the world do they expect to keep the armed forces all volunteer with this feckless disregard for our service personnel and their families? My son is in the WI Nat’l Guard – I only have moderate ‘skin in the game’ but am most concerned about the morons that are supposedly running things.
That is absolutely incredible. Oh my God. Hard to overstate how terrifying that is, when you think about it for a moment.
Antifa doesn’t recognize real fascism when it smacks them in the face. Or even when it cancels their Facebook account.
We may be slow, but we are moving. We are acting. We are protesting. We are standing up. We have been wrongly arrested. We have been subject to wrongful imprisonment. It is building up. It may be a while longer, but the blood is beginning to flow in the veins of Americans.
Stina:
“We may be slow, but we are moving. We are acting. We are protesting. We are standing up. We have been wrongly arrested. We have been subject to wrongful imprisonment. It is building up. It may be a while longer, but the blood is beginning to flow in the veins of Americans.”
I hope you are right, but it seems that many are cowered. If you notice all the posts that talk about Biden’s latest Afghan outrages or the latest censorship or worse by our Overlords, – these posts are not getting that many likes, like they should. I am shocked so few are not totally outraged. Yes, there are those like you and those who commented here who are unbelievably white hot angry outraged at what is going on, but many are quiet. Far too many. Why is that?
What a brave woman Shana Chapell is! We should support her protest in any way we can!
I see a Ricochet meetup outside the White House in our future.
Yes and I am all the more encouraged in my formulation by the silent “p” in the White House spokes-creature Jen pSaki.
They need to see the actions. And a lot of people are acting. I’ll be at my school board on Thursday fighting for something important to me. This woman will be at the White House protesting. Maybe I’ll send it to my sister with a Dunkin’ Donuts gift card and ask her to buy the woman a coffee when she can.
Comfortable wealth creates complacency. It is that simple. Which of us will leave the comfort of our homes, the security of our employment/career, and spend weeks or months camping on the outskirts of the White House? How many will forego the comfort of our morning coffee, with wife and dog at the table, to protest, and assume the significant risk of being attacked by Antifa, knowing the police will stand down and let them beat the crap out us?
Don’t forget about Kyle Rittenhouse, the 1/6 protestors, the school board challengers, the homeschoolers, and the vaccine mandate walk outs.
We are acting on convictions right now.
Oh, but the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are the problem. (sigh)
As I recall, the media stopped covering her when she filed to run against Pelosi (or was it Feinstein?). They only promoted her when she was a thorn in Pres. Bush’s side.
I’m beginning to have great affection for the British system: they all leave.
“Absolute moral authority”.
It is in fearful anticipation that might we reach such a moment that the Progs want to cast aside the 2nd Amendment.
Fear. I think some are fearful of their names being taken, because the collection by tptb of information is scary. The putting of protesters in solitary confinement and giving them long sentences is truly terrifying. I am told by someone who knows that lawyers are afraid to take these cases. Who is protesting for these political prisoners?
The best checks on tyranny are winnowing away and we are left with, well, fear. Mothers of dead soldiers, however, don’t care, God bless and keep them.
The saying, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”, is posted on a large sign of a carwash in Panama City, facing the main road, a heavily used road, so every motorist can read it. I think what Rodin talks about is brewing in everyone’s soul – how can it not? It’s not just here. I read about huge protests in France, Germany and elsewhere – protests against the mandates and oppression – everyone is feeling it.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-07-31/thousands-protest-against-covid-19-health-pass-in-france
It will all come out eventually about what is really going on in Afghanistan – how many still left,