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07 February What are we fighting for?The video I am referring to is called "Dissent", it is the second video listed on the site above.
For all those who say that free speech isn't dead yet, watch these videos. I recommend starting with "Dissent" for a wake-up call about the police state we live in. It's no wonder you don't ever see anything in the news about protests at presidential rallys. The protesters are cordoned off a mile away from the building behind a fence in a "free speech area". The whole country is a free speech area. Old men and housewives are being arrested for exercising their right to protest, their right to petition their government, their right to speak their mind. what kind of country suppresses dissent? Is it a free democracy when the government is scared of its citizens? Is it a free democracy when the president is surrounded by those who fawn over his every move and he shuts out all criticism for fear that it would injure his ego? Is it a free democracy when dissenters are shot with wooden bullets, cordoned off in nets and fences like animals, arrested for committing no crime, shut up in cages in a chemical filled condemned building for days, and left to wonder whether they will ever get out? Does a free democracy make its citizens feel like caged animals trapped behind a wall?
I thought we brought the wall down almost 20 years ago. I thought we were fighting for the right of every man, woman, and child to tear down their own walls. I never thought we would be fighting to bring down other people's walls while building one of our own. The Berlin wall of today is a steel cage in an adandoned bus depot. The iron curtain of today is orange netting with 300 peaceful protesters inside it while across town Our Leader uses the tragedy of the same city to further his political machine. The Gestapo of today wears riot gear and fires "less than lethal" ammo at a picket line, killing innocent people. The hammer and sickle have been replaced by the baton and the zip-tie cuffs. Mussolini's eagle has supplanted Washington's eagle.
What frightens me is that some people don't notice. What frightens me more is that some people don't care. They beg the government to save them from some ambiguous threat. At the same time, they beg the government to save them from the voices of dissent whose only purpose is to point out the cost of that salvation. Is it worth it? Do you feel safer? Do you care? Comments (12)
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