Bob,
I appreciate your work in clarifying. ThankQ. I'm used to calls to 'water the tree of libery' tied with mentions of the Revolutionary War pushing for more than red-pilling, so my understanding of your arm icon was not personal. In tandem with Revolutionary War references, I get the impression that you feel information warfare doesn't really 'count' as doing anything in your frustration with public activity or lack thereof (i.e., NOTHING IS HAPPENING!).
Because you've been here with us for these years, I assumed you knew of my prior efforts to cultivate public response through protest, calling, writing, voting etc. so your objection to my record (i.e., your apparent belief that I am against advocacy or resistance efforts) made me think some clarification could be useful. If you're not interested, there's the gif of the 'operative in the bushes' is below (and it's cute). :D
Also, in my search through the attic for the posts below, I saw signs that you had been contending with serious illness back then, and I paused to be grateful for your continued presence on our threads.
I'm posting the following to clarify possible misunderstandings of what I do and do not advocate for, most of the content in the post below hasn't been seen in about 4 years so I have hopes it won't put you to sleep!
I pulled together information and comments about 2 events wherein I advocated for in-person protests despite personal risk. I feel there is a time and place and context to call for literally talking a stand, and that I have done so. I do find it odd that somehow my posts have been interpreted to mean I want to 'do nothing' and wait for other people to step in and handle it.
In each instance (below), there were people advocating for both sides (protest or 'avoid the trap'); I just want to clarify that 'sitting drinking coffee' versus 'taking a stand' are a false dichotomy, and deciding when/where to protest is based on judgement, available information and knowledge.
1 Richmond Virginia, 1/20/2024 2nd Ammendment Protests
The Q thread covering the time of the 2nd Ammendment Protests in Richmond, Virginia, scheduled to take place Jan 20, 2020 is linked below.
At that time I was advocating for MAGA/FREEQs/FREEPERS to attend the protest despite the risks. Others, either stood by monitoring the flow of information with concern, urged caution (avoidance) instead, supported protest or contributed more context (your post on that thread), and you all did so with good reason because we were trying to evaluate the context, weigh the options, detect and avoid traps that make (psyops) matters worse for America, and for Trump. I didn't think less of those urging us to avoid possible traps (e.g., lazy, sitting drinking coffee) because together we balance each other out and distill our insights into judgements we can use.
The day after I posted our Q thread, I took my concerns to the forum and posted the following thread, asking veteran FReeper protestors to contribute their experience to our protest strategies.
Excerpted:
FReeper Patriots, SHOW US HOW IT'S DONE
.....I will do my best but I want strategies to have the most impact from my efforts.
We have seasoned FReepers; we have new blood with new ideas, we have people of every level of experience in between. We have people with communications expertise, political savvy. We want our efforts to be strategic and have maximum impact.
IDEAS. We need your experience, your professional skills. Frankly, if we don't show the Deep State holdovers that we will flood their phone lines, stage Social Media campaigns, protest their presence, any legal public action needed to drive them from office, our states are next in line.
.....And any elected official either supporting or silent regarding the abuses going on now in Virginia shouldn't bother running for office again anywhere, ever.
We must act now - Virginians need us and the Deep State is WATCHING.
Note that post #49 on that forum thread (and #111 on the active Q thread), I elaborated on my reasons for urging protests, encouraged peeps to 'flood the zone', proposed a counter-strategy, and I asked people to accept personal risk. The following is an excerpt:
Attending the rally involves personal risk, as has every fight for our freedom since the founding of America. We must pray for to strength, fortitude, and protection of all who attend the even in VA as well as across the nation.
I linked that forum thread back to the Q thread, and sent that link as a ping to all those on the Q thread ping list.
I also moved my analysis of a psyop attempt (viral email) from my forum post to the Q thread here (#105). That viral email was designed to discourage attendance at the protest via an 'anonymous' warning and my analysis was intended to prove it was a psyop.
I then posted another forum thread exhorting FReepers to attend the rally, call, emal, tweet etc.
I made other threads asking FReepers to text, call, or vote a different times over the past 4 or 5 years. I do so more carefully now, because I believe that voter pressure works less as the Deep State increases its own pressure on the same Congress Critters - ignoring us helps them protect against DS blackmail/threats. I won't rule out such forum threads or post in the future, but I didn't feel particularly effective calling for phone campaigns etc. back then, likely also because the fix was in for the election(s).
I also tried to advocate for FReepers on FR to take a stand for President Trump at what was then described as impending George Flyod 'protests'. I posted a forum thread in an attempt to recruit protestors.
2. George Floyd Protests near Lafayette Park, May 30 - June 1, 2020
I don't think my thread was particularly useful in recruiting protestors - I posted it the day of the protest and FR is largely older people living in CA, many with physical limitations and this 'protest' devolved into steady violence. In hindsight, I believe my urging FReepers to attend the 'protest' was an incorrect over-reaction to protest unknowns which were later mentioned by Q in drop 4404. While the context was wrong, my words regarding taking a personal stand despite the risks were correct.
I am infuriated that the MSM described the riots as 'mostly peaceful', even though around 60 Secret Service members were injuried.
SIDE NOTE: Q linked to President Trump's (6/4/2020) post in which the President linked to an open letter from John M Dowd to Jim (Mattis). I link it because in the letter, Stoddard decried Mattis' silence on, among other things, "...the resistance movement to paralyze our courts and our government operations." These are an example of the kind of optics my instincts cautioned me about in my prior post to you - I said that the 'shutdown' of courts or Congress could be portrayed as insurrectionist.
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1268675068814659584
The actions of 'digital warriors' can seem unimportant to some, but WE SERVE OUR COUNTRY with our efforts in the information war, according to Q.
Q4509
OUR SERVICE is, in fact, some important that Q asked us to take the oath at the bottom of Q4510.
In Q4511 said this important Digital Battlefield is a unprecedented MIL-CIV alliance.
Those of us called to service on the Digital Battlefield do so to the best of our ability. Others are called to serve in other ways, to the best of their ability. Our skills and service complement one another.
Amen to your latest comment to me, Bob!"Let us continue to unite for freedom's fight and the righteousness of God."
