Understand that by just posting to FR, you are doing something functionally similar. When the left’s death squads (read: Antifa) start their Kristallnacht (they’ve already used this very term), they’ll use boards like FR and Parler for lists of people to doxx, terrorize, and murder. In a way, by continuing to post here, we’re already marked as enemies.
I understand, and have understood from day one that to be the case.
That is one of the things I admire most about our forebears who put their signature on that piece of paper. That was equivalent to putting their head into a noose, especially when you look at the odds they faced going against the mightiest military power in the world at the time.
If or when that time comes when I am called on to stand by things I’ve said, I hope that I have the courage to do so. One never knows for sure how one will react, but I hope that I will be able to stand by what I believe to be right.
That is not to say that I have not said things that are wrong, or have not said things that are stupid or deliberately inflammatory, because I have.
But if push comes to shove I am put on the spot with my liberty or my life on the line, that I can stand by things that I have said about this country I love, and the principles behind it.
And if that means but I have to stand behind even the stupid or inflammatory things I have said as a principle and in doing that support the Constitution as it was envisioned by the founders, I can be stood up against the wall for that.
I’m getting closer to the end of my life from the beginning that’s for sure, and I don’t have as much skin in the game right now as someone with a family dependent on him and who has his whole life in front of him.
And again, I think there are few of us who know exactly how we would react in that situation, but I hope against hope that it never comes to that, and even more than that, I hope I can do what is right if it does.