MCM speaking out in Foley Square, for all those Americans locked up after January 6 (and taking flak from certain True Believers)
That was quite a moment. It was very hot there, and I don't mean just the weather.
The occasion was a protest of the US government's grotesque violation of the rights of all those fellow-citizens imprisoned, on no formal charges, after that ridiculous "attempted coup" on January 6—Americans who've been in prison ever since, many of them held in solitary confinement, with no access to their lawyers, and with the sick not getting medical attention.
Those interested should watch the whole event, which featured some great speakers, including one of those locked up, and one of the lawyers trying to get some justice for those people.
My remarks begin at 1:46, and last for 20 minutes:
https://rumble.com/vj4dt5-nyc-protest-live-free-political-prisoners-now-citizensapp.us.html
Does anyone have thoughts on why it's this one group- of I guess you'd call them those who identify as democrats or liberal- who have been so taken over and react as KLS describes below? I've been thinking about this a lot (cause they used to be my friends and they are my adult children) and I don't have a satisfactory answer. I assume it's connected with the educated class and they're identification (and hence blind trust) in institutions. It's just that the left used to understand that institutions are not to be trusted and authority is to be resisted and now- well it's like kool aid was put in them long before they got vaccinated and I don't understand how it happened so quickly. I mean the likes of Amy Goodman used to know who Bill Gates was and now it's wear double masks as an act of love.
“If you’re afraid and angry, then you’re not thinking.” Bingo. When I try to have conversations, quaint though the concept of “conversation” may sound nowadays, I’m met with this anger, this fear and conversations are stopped in their tracks. It’s a wall so many people I know have built around themselves. Dissenting views are “conspiracy theories” or anti-Vax. When they defend their positions with phrases like “trust the experts” “trust the scientists,” I come back with work by scientists who disagree. But most people actually haven’t done the work to analyze all the data, only who their fave news sources say to believe. And of all of it, that’s the most frightening to me…that smart people aren’t thinking anymore.
We all have our favorite image of what’s happening right now. For me, it’s definitely “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”