“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” — President Harry S. Truman
Militarized police. Riot squads. Camouflage gear. Black uniforms. Armored vehicles. Mass arrests. Pepper spray. Tear gas. Batons. Strip searches. Surveillance cameras. Kevlar vests. Drones. Lethal weapons. Less-than-lethal weapons unleashed with deadly force. Rubber bullets. Water cannons. Stun grenades. Arrests of journalists. Crowd control tactics. Intimidation tactics. Brutality. Lockdowns.
This is not the language of freedom. This is not even the language of law and order.
This is the language of force.
This is how the government at all levels—federal, state and local—now responds to those who speak out against government corruption, misconduct and abuse.
These overreaching, heavy-handed lessons in how to rule by force have become standard operating procedure for a government that communicates with its citizenry primarily through the language of brutality, intimidation and fear.
We didn’t know it then, but what happened five years ago in Charlottesville, Va., was a foretaste of what was to come.
At the time, Charlottesville was at the center of a growing struggle over how to reconcile the right to think and speak freely, especially about controversial ideas, with the push to sanitize the environment of anything—words and images—that might cause offense. That fear of offense prompted the Charlottesville City Council to get rid of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had graced one of its public parks for 82 years.
In attempting to err on the side of political correctness by placating one group while muzzling critics of the city’s actions, Charlottesville attracted the unwanted attention of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and the alt-Right, all of whom descended on the little college town with the intention of exercising their First Amendment right to be disagreeable, to assemble, and to protest.
That’s when everything went haywire.
When put to the test, Charlottesville did not handle things well at all.
England with King George tried that too once
There were several decades of grumbling, protests, letters to the King, meetings in dimly lit taverns and farmhouses and talk of revolution BEFORE Americans rose up and defeated the greatest military power on Earth. Farmers. Shopkeepers. Craftsmen.
The British burned down houses, churches, newspaper offices, and killed men right in front of their families, then used their houses for their own soldiers.
Even though the British were all-powerful and ruthless, the desire to be free from the yolk of an oppressive and deadly government was MUCH GREATER than the British could withstand.
Today, cheerleaders (and don’t forget biden saying he has nuclear weapons — in case “We, the People” get too uppity) say “We, the People” could never stand against the government and the military. Total BS.
Today, America has went from “grumbling” above power-crazy politicians to storming the White House and showing up at FBI offices with real weapons. You know, “assault rifles” and such.
People in power are starting to sweat. I’ll feel better when they start to bleed.
It’s coming, sure as night follows day.
Civil order is breaking down EVERYWHERE and not just in this country. You won’t hear about it on CNN, but citizens in Europe are also going hard against their “leaders”. You were never told about the hundreds of thousands of French citizens marching in the streets over their covid BS.
A new wave of revolutionary actions are simmering. No one knows the trigger to make them boil.
Maybe it will be IRS agents killing Americans over $1000. Maybe extreme food shortages. Maybe some more draconian “lockdowns” over a cold virus. Maybe energy prices that force people to live in freezing houses.
Maybe a combination of those things and others.
But there WILL be one.
Then, the King George’s, the Hitler’s, the Mussolini’s, the Mao’s, the Macron’s, the bidens, (the list is quite long) and ALL of their boot clicking admirers will, again, be consigned to the dustbin of history.
That’s how history works. And they know it , too.
Buy guns and ammo.
Americans WILL arise to the occassion when necessary !!!! Wait & see !!!!