Nourishing Liberty With Blood

A HIGH SCHOOL CLASSMATE of mine, whom I consider a lifeling friend, said to me, paraphrazed: "Who would have thought that violent barbarians would ever attack law enforcement officers for doing their job,upholding the contitution." I instantly volunteered myself as an example of someone who indeed would have thought it, and did. Anybody who knows history and understands people would have to, but I didn't say this to my friend. Instead I pointed out that we the American people have a long history of violent opposition to perceived government tyranny, going all the way back to the Boston Tea Party, if not earlier.I mentioned several instances, inclluding the draft riots of 1862, the Bonus marchers of 1932, and eh Viet Nam War protestors, among others. In a democratic country where people know they have tp assembly and peacefully protest, they asssemble and peacefully protest. Problem is, there are bad apples in every basket, including protestors and police. After all, the event which created the United States of America was a violent revolutionay rebellion by the American people against their government. It merits mention that, in the grand scheme of things, by comparison with most overseas colonies owned by European nations, that the British colonial rule over the American colonies was relatively lenient, somewhat hands off, not entirely repressive. Of course, the rebels themselves, all ginned up on propaganda from rabble rousers like Thomas Paine, were for the most part, ready to go to the mat by April 1775, when the war actually began, and were in full uprising mode after January 1776, by which time Paine's mini book "Common Sense", ahd sold half a million copies throughout the colonies, ginning up the folks. According to my dear friend's criteria, most of America's liberty loving heroes were violent barbarians. I have two complaints about my beloved Christian conservative Trump loving, and I mean "loving" full cult member high school classmate: When we were in high school, teh only thing he talked about with me was how many of our female classmates he had had sex with. Ever since, at every class reunion, he talks to me about all of our classmates with whom he allegedly used to have sex. Whether its all true, part true, or complete B. S., I don't know and I don't care. TMI, either way. The main tehing I have against hi is that he is a far right wing Trump loving Christian conservative. I don't like thsoe people generally, but many of my good friends are among them, and rather than end friendships, I choose to give them a pass, a "Pardon" if you will,and to avoid all talk about politics with them. Sometimes, this strategy works, sometimes, not so much. Well, and then, at least I try. I'm glad I didn't all my buddy a fascist or anything like that. If an American president signs an executive order on his first day in office anouncing a change to the constitution, I complain about it. If he keeps stealing powers he does not legally have, I turn it up a notch,the complaining. I consider anyone who claims that the election of 2020 was stolen from Trump a liar and a traitor. Period. If our Christian conservative Republican countrymen want the military and federal police in the streets of American cities, knock yourself out. Go ahead and try running for office on that fascist agenda. In fact, in during this administration, there has not been a single reason, anywhere, to activate and call out either the National Guard or the I.C.E officers and deploy them in large numbers on main street. Not one single reason. Trump and his MAGA supporters offer only nonsensical excuses which make their fascist proclivites eminently transparent,invented, fabricated, imaginary emergencies, phantom, invisible mobs of radical liberal anti-Trumpers attacking good Christian conservative Americans and destroying the country. Fascist propaganda, fully supported by Trump's fascist leaning cult. It is vital to call out and aggressively fact check every utterance by our temporary fascist masters. even more vital is to resist Trump's fascist leaning adminstration, and get out in the streets in huge numbers, peacefully but asserively protesting,as often and for as long as it takes. Like Jefferson said: "The tree of liberty will from time to time require the nourishment of the blood of patriots and tyrants".