When conversation and the use of simple, everyday speech becomes threatened? Because you and those like you, have become targeted, isolated, marginalized and polarized?
Sound familiar?
Perhaps the best that can be done, is to simply be quiet. And I know many who have become quiet. Or is silenced a better descriptor.
And having been sufficiently attacked and labeled by vitriolic scarlet letters, as followers, believers or members of the "cult of Trump?" That is the precise response of the large majority of Americans.
Americans that here to fore, have never done anything illegal or insurrectionist. Americans who abhor the mere thoughts of terrorism, much less, being branded as one.
Yet they have now been branded with these scarlet letters and it frightens them. In all truth? It scares hell out of them. And the media and their leftist tormentors know this.. And so they are pressing their advantages in the media. Furthering these fears and by doing so? Furthering compliance of the masses, with the acceptance of loss of their freedom and ultimately, totalitarianism.
In the final analysis, no one wants to be "that guy." You know the one. The one that loses their job, or worse? They are "perp walked" across their lawn at dawn Arrested by federal agents, for some heinous misrepresentation of law and the collusion of the state, to silence them.
That all happened to a man in southern Florida last week. And many legal scholars and those far wiser than I, have noted that in their observations, this was a clear abuse of legal authority and and abuse of federal law. US Title 18 section 241 specifically.
And what were this man's crimes? Well according to information released so far, he had several twitter and FB accounts. With an individual or collective following of over 80,000 people. And what was his crime? He was/is is a trickster. Someone who maliciously and "illegally" tricked people by his postings and memes. And therefore, created the atmosphere where his actions manipulated the opinions of voters, which resulted in more votes for Donald Trump, than Hillary Clinton.
I mean? Who would do something so sinister? As to actually attempt to interfere in our election process, by manipulating information, caricaturing information? Or outright hiding information from the public.
I don't know? But can anyone say Hunter's computer?
So the charges against this so called political revolutionary in Florida? Are that in 2016? He made unflattering memes against Hillary Clinton. And he made parody memes alleging that democrats could vote on line. And he spread this disinformation to the extent of criminal acts apparently. By simply producing them for comic consumption.
I don't know who was responsible for memes like those? But I do remember memes from 2016, that suggested that a special voting day for democrats had been created for the Wednesday after the general election on Tuesday of that year.
Now, I may not be the sharpest spoon in the drawer? But I do know a few of the basics about civics and our election processes. Firstly, I know that general elections occur every four years and that midterm elections occur every two years. But regardless, these elections are always held on Tuesdays.
Therefore, to suggest anything differently, but especially via sarcastic humor? Is an insane assumption. Especially if the representation and association being made, is being done, so as to infer that massive injury to the election process has occurred because of it.
Or that significant numbers of the electorate were fooled and tricked into thinking they could vote the day after the election, because they were special.
But I guess we shall see, as this Florida man's case is brought before the court and the trier of facts and evidence is laid out to supposedly justify his arrest and prosecution.
Here again, I am not a lawyer, but I am a lifetime observer of life and many legal processes and precedents. And based upon my experiences and observations, I truthfully cannot see how this man can be convicted of anything. But especially not the caricaturization, of the political process, or of any candidate involved in that process.
But the obvious is overlooked once again in my observation. It is not about whether this man is convicted of anything or not. And I am betting he won't be. And when that determination is finally made in a court of law? The news of it will be barely a whisper.
Because the greater reality will have become how his arrest and the media publicity of that? Led to a wider fear and a greater fear among others. To just sit down and be quiet. Silence is golden they say. And I would assume it is ever much so greater, when the fear that creates it, insulates the muted, from the horrors of being that guy.
So as always, it is not the truth that is damning. It is the accusation and the ability of others, to sell the notion, and not the truth. That their sale of their misleading and misrepresented momentary reality, in the end result, is what will become the lasting truth in the minds of most. Regardless, of what the truth ever really was.
Now? I am curious to see? What will become of the Babylon Bee. Surely there must be plans afoot to raid that pit of nefarious disinformation and the evil caricatures being made of the righteous ones now occupying the halls of piety.
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