I Support The Protests
from the and-you-should-too dept
I support the protests.
I want to say this out loud. I support them.
If you support the protests, you should tell everyone you know that you support them.
Some of us have jobs, commitments, health conditions, or other circumstances that prevent us from marching with our fellow citizens in the streets. But for those of us who cannot march out of love for our country and to protect our fellow citizens from the criminal bullies who have stolen our federal government, we must feel free to tell everyone that we support the marchers.
Tell your boss at work. Tell your coworkers. Tell your neighbors. Tell your family. Let everyone know you support the marchers.
This does not make you a radical. It makes you part of the human race.
The marchers are defending constitutional government. They’re defending the rule of law. They’re defending your rights and mine. They’re standing up to criminals who wage unconstitutional war, who shoot citizens in the streets, who violate every principle this country was founded on.
Supporting them isn’t extreme. Silence is extreme. Silence is collaboration. Silence is choosing the side of the criminals.
You don’t have to march to matter. You don’t have to risk arrest to resist. You just have to stop pretending neutrality is an option when your government is killing people.
Say it: I support the protests.
Say it to everyone. Say it at work. Say it at home. Say it to strangers.
This is how majorities recognize they’re majorities. This is how isolated people realize they’re not alone. This is how the criminals learn there are more of us than there are of them.
I support the protests. So should you. And you should say so.
Out loud. To everyone.
That’s not radicalism. That’s citizenship.
Mike Brock is a former tech exec who was on the leadership team at Block. Originally published at his Notes From the Circus.
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Comments on “I Support The Protests”
Lex Iniusta Non Est Lex
I’ll take it a step further: I fully support nonviolent resistance to Trump’s tyranny, regardless of legality. Those who marched against racial segregation in the 20th Century were perfectly willing to break the law in order to call attention to the injustice of racial segregation and the cruelty of those seeking to enforce it. Protesters are blocking a road? Good for them! Making noise near a hotel hosting ICE agents? Yes, please! King and Parks did not care if they were arrested, for they knew that they were in the right.
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More to the point, King and Parks were prepared to be arrested for what they did. They were willing to put themselves on the front lines and take the heat so others wouldn’t necessarily have to do that. It also helped turn them into symbols of the Civil Rights Movement, since their arrests came by protesting unjust laws. As someone else put it here a few months back: People talk, martyrs scream.
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Protests over what? A crazy lady tried to run over a LEO (which she did successfully hit) and got shot in self defense.
The cop was completely in the right. That was a legal shooting in every state.
Don’t drive at cops. You will die.
I support ICE. We have another 20 million people to deport. They all gotta go home.
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I’d suggest you need to go back to where you came from, you’d just cause a space-time paradox trying to crawl back into your own ass.
What if I don’t? Should I say it too, or should I stay silent? (Asking for a friend)
If it was good enough for the founders of the US...
The US started with protests against what the colonists perceived as unjust laws and unjust treatment by the government ruling over them, even if that treatment might have been legal.
Given that arguably there are few things more american and patriotic that following in their footsteps when it comes to protesting abuses of the law and violations of the rights and lives of the public, no matter how desperately the regime might want people to believe otherwise.
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Really? I thought the US started with a HUGE LAND GRAB.
“Patriotic”? YA-TA-HEY…
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Just because somebody landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn’t mean they have any claim to it now.
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That too, which now that I think about it could serve as an amusing(for how much it would trigger certain people/groups) argument for undocumented immigrants also following in the footsteps of the founding of the US…
If you see ICE
breaking the law, call the police
Truly sad that the times we live in necessitate us to clearly state our support for the right to peaceful protest which should be a foundational part of any functioning democracy. It is not radicalism, it is not extremism; it is simple democratic participation and anyone labelling it as radicalism or extremism is voicing their true agenda for the world to hear.