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Grey Whiskers' linked article is a MUST READ for every FReeQ, every FReeper in general, and every American.

Don't let the title fool you.

Just some snips, but the whole thing rings out like a Patrick Henry speech designed to get Americans off their hind parts. If you aren't inspired by this article, you can't be inspired.

(excerpts)

This is what I see happening.

The American public has come to accept all the components of totalitarian states.

- We have come to accept a militarized police.
- We have come to accept ideological indoctrination in schools.
- We have come to accept mass surveillance.
- We have come to accept speech codes.
- We have come to accept the rewriting of history to serve the interests of the ruling party.
- We have come to accept the tarring of political dissidents as “terrorists”, “extremists”, and “White Supremacists.”
- We have come to accept the State telling us when and where we can meet.
- We have come to accept the State shutting down our places of worship.
- We have come to accept the idea that parents should have no special authority over their children.
- We have come to accept the manipulation of thought through the manipulation of language.
- We have come to accept the radical reordering of society by government in the name of crisis.

*snip*

If you have the courage to act where I do not, here is what I WILL do:

- If you speak out against them, I will listen.
- If you act against them, I will not stand in your way.
- If they portray you as uncool, cringey, old-fashioned, unintelligent, or low-class, I will not laugh at you or think less of you.
- If they call you a racist, sexist, xenophobe, homophobe, Nazi, granny killer, etc., I will not believe them, nor will I care.
- If they call you a terrorist or an extremist, I will not assume that you are in the wrong.
- When they ask me questions, I will lie, forget, or evade as I am able.
- When they tell me their version of history, I will smile and nod and know they are liars.
- If they dispossess you, I will share what I can.
- If they martyr you, my children will learn your name as that of a hero.
- If you have the courage to be shameless in opposing them, you will be honored in my house.

A+ for the day to Grey Whiskers for posting this gem.

Grey Whiskers’ linked article is a MUST READ for every FReeQ, every FReeper in general, and every American.

Open Letter from an American Coward

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This was posted the other day but only got 16 replies.

I missed it myself.

Open Letter from an American Coward
sarah-chamberlain ^ | 16 Dec 2020 | Sarah Chamberlain
Posted on 12/16/2020, 9:38:21 AM by Politically Correct

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3915993/posts

A few of the decent non Q follower Freepers replied, such as Cuban Leaf.

I think this piece is worth reposting, with perhaps a brief acknowledgment to the poster that we know its a repeat but thought it important enough to repeat.

(Perhaps pings as well to non Q thread posters we like and who have consistently had good comments on things???)

If one of you does repost it, let us know, so we can jump on it, although I am planning to go out and do errands here shortly and refuse to try to post from my phone.

The funny thing is that yesterday I posted something on the coward theme to ImpImp’s 12.18 Flubros thread in which he argued we should not wear a mask and say we are making a stand for freedom and not being selfish because it isn’t selfish to be for freedom and George Washington wasn’t being selfish when he fought for freedom.

I tried to argue that that’s all well and good but George Washington doesn’t inspire people today and freedom is too much of an abstraction for the sheep to understand and appreciate, but by the time I posted, due to work, the thread was a good ten hours stale.

Here is that thread for convenience:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3916662/posts