For some, a mask mandate is seen as tyranny or some weird form of communism, even though we are in the midst of a deadly pandemic. Yet, many of them see unidentified paramilitary being deployed on our streets to teargas, beat, abduct and shoot people exercising their First Amendment Rights of free speech and assembly as something to cheer about. Some Facebook anti-mask people also advocate running protesters over with vehicles. What has become of this nation?
The authoritarian bent of the President is on full display with his deployment of camo wearing unidentified paramilitary troops into cities where the officials don’t want them. Protecting the federal building is fine, but there’s no need to abduct people off the street, no need to shoot people with “less lethal” rounds, no need to deploy teargas on American citizens that are exercising their First Amendment rights. To do so, is to violate their Constitutional rights. Collective punishment is not only immoral and illegal, it incites further protest, it escalates the very issue they are pretending to address. And to label protesters as a whole, as “violent” (a technique despots use) to justify their actions and scapegoat people is unacceptable.
The President is performing fascism to orchestrate chaos, something that “can’t happen here”….well, it’s happening, it’s a sign we’re losing our Republic, that our democracy is dying.
WE MUST STAND AGAINST THIS.
We must not go down that road, we must remember that we fought a World War against fascism, let us remember the lessons of history.
Sanda Oslin,
Grand Marais
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