tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post2944673538181067987..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Ruled By CriminalsFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-44381926470460541822020-04-29T11:28:15.480-04:002020-04-29T11:28:15.480-04:00I'm in a particularly grim mood this morning, ...I'm in a particularly grim mood this morning, and not adequately coffee'd up so I don't know if this is even going to be a well thought out post. <br /><br />Imagine yourself sitting in the middle of a very crowded indoor venue, say a concert. Some guy three rows in front of you takes out a cigarette, and lights up. Everyone seated near the smoker begins yelling and raising hell because they truly believe that the smoker has put them all in danger, threatened to kill them with second hand smoke. The smoker is a big guy. No one's going to mess with him one on one. But the yelling continues, and he smokes away. Someone next to you gets a better idea of how to stop the threat. She screams FIRE, FIRE, and the entire auditorium erupts in panic. Everyone charges the exits; there is a massive crush going on all around you.<br />Does it matter much that you are aware that there was no threat to begin with? Can you reason with the people charging for the exit?<br /><br />I look around my little corner of LA County here in So Cal. Everywhere I go I see people walking alone on the street. No one around them for hundreds of yards. And yet they walk around masked up like plague doctors. Many wear rubber gloves as well. They are masked up and gloved alone in the car with all the windows rolled up tight. They've been indoor doing nothing but watching television for weeks. They believe everything their TV tells them, and they do just what the concerned voices on TV tell them to do. They will not leave the house without a mask, and gloves. They cross the street if a stranger approaches. Woe betide the rebel who will not wear the gloves of security, and the mask of safety. Can you reason with the people who hear the cry of FIRE, FIRE! and are charging for the exit? <br />Here's the quick answer: no.<br /><br />JWMJWMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564732483476859555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-62342744661529798252020-04-29T08:46:49.306-04:002020-04-29T08:46:49.306-04:00The funny thing is, the process is taking place am...The funny thing is, the process is taking place amid relative political peace - no open warfare, no crowds in the streets rioting (well, not many, and not large). The state is taking over through appeals to fear of death, and SEEMING to be concerned only with the health and well-being of their citizen-subjects. The breath-taking abuse of power - forcing sovereign people to stay confined to their homes, not for crimes they were convicted of, but "for the good of others" - is not being resisted - except by a few lone, brave souls.<br /><br />The pushback from many is hard. On FB, if you suggest that it's time to lift restrictions on business operation - why, they immediately accuse you of wanting dead people, and of valuing MONEY (yuck, spit!) over PEOPLE.<br /><br />"If it saves just ONE person"<br /><br />Yeah, right. Those same people have not distinguished themselves in the past in protecting lives. On the contrary, they cheered the widespread unemployment of the Rust Belt, make jokes about deaths from Hillbilly Heroin (and, yet, surprisingly, NOT actual heroin), and deride resisters as "snaggle-toothed morons, clinging to their guns and religion".<br /><br />Oh, and H8rs. ALL of those not promoting the Progressive Way of Life are H8rs.<br /><br />All we can do:<br />- keep the pressure on the state level to toss out those measures that promote stealing elections - No ID at polling places, harvesting ballots, same-day registration, bloated voter lists, loose accounting for ballots/absentee ballots.<br />- Post/comment on blogs<br />- Pass on the dissident information via social media<br />- Talk to people - it's cheering to do so, as many who seem to be supportive of the Progressive agenda have some reservations. Do it gently, calmly, and - for God's sake - don't take the opportunity to SPEW all that you know. For those on the fence, it comes across badly. Stick to ONE issue at a time.<br />- Vote. Register others (have some voter registrations with you always). Follow up with neighbors and friends, and take voting day off work to ferry people to the polls. Make it a community event. Network.<br />- Pray.Linda Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15024201252345608291noreply@blogger.com