I was pleasantly shocked this morning when the remaining living Israeli hostages were released, I really didn’t expect it to happen. I won’t be shocked if the bodies of the dead ones don’t come back but I’ll be delighted to be wrong.
I was not shocked when the Palestinians in Gaza started slaughtering each other (the ones in areas not still held by Israel of course) that was no surprise.
But if you want to see what is the least surprising thing of all, it’s this:
BREAKING: Live look at Columbia University after they learned that Hamas is mass-slaughtering Palestinians in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/swcn5iMmcY
Not a protestor in sight over the murder of Palestinians by other Palestinians, because in the end the “protestors” don’t care about Arab lives, they simply want Jews dead.
I suspect you will see this lack of reaction from all those who loudly demanded a cease fire because the only people they wanted to cease firing were the Jews.
While I was a child at the time, I don’t recall much during the politically turbulent 1960s and early 1970s in regard to protests of July 4th, that is, America’s Independence Day.
But of course, 21st-century leftists will take things too far. And the progressives never seem to be at a loss for anger. The most egregious attack on the 4th, and to be fair, America, comes from Tucson, Arizona and in a since-deleted Tweet, captured by Libs of Tik Tok, the Pima County Democratic Party wrote, “F*ck the Fourth,” along with a graphic that included this message for the Tucson Women’s Network, “Bring comfortable shoes, water, lawn chairs, posters, and your anger.” The other group’s graphic, as you can see, doesn’t use an asterisk in the F-word.
The “F*ck the 4th” protest is in response to last month’s US Supreme Court decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson case, in an expected ruling–courtesy of a leaked draft opinion–which overruled Roe v. Wade and returns the abortion ruling to the states.
And in those states, besides Arizona, there are pro-abortion protests planned in conjunction with Independence Day. There’s a call to wear black, instead of red, white, and blue on July 4th, which is not a particularly wise idea if you plan to be outdoors a lot on the holiday. The high temperature where I live is expected to be 91 degrees on the 4th.
Bans Off Our Bodies Florida is now in the middle of a weekend boycott on retail spending to protest Dobbs v. Jackson. Also in Florida, on the Space Coast, there’s a pro-abortion protest there, Gannett’s Florida Today reports. Here’s some irony: To reach the story I had to click through a July 4th subscription special pop-up ad, as I did for another Gannett publication, the MetroWest Daily News, to learn about a Framingham, Massachusetts anti-Dobbs protest. “Fourth of July is cancelled,” one of the organizers says.
I don’t feel compelled to mention each protest, you get the point. But here’s one more. Leave it to my state, goofy Illinois, to take thing a step farther. The owner of a Chicago children’s boutique is organizing, along with the Chicago Abortion Fund, a “Families for Abortion Access” march.
Of course, the right to free speech, which of course includes unpopular speech, doesn’t go away on July 4th, once again the far-left is being offensive and angering the persuadable center by calling for “F*ck the Fourth” and more.
John Ruberry regularly blogs at Marathon Pundit. He plans to spend part of the 4th at the Morton Grove Days festival, watching fireworks there, wearing red, white, and blue.
Three weeks ago I was hopeful that I was seeing the first signs that people around the world were finally ready to fight back against the freedom crushing Coronavirus restrictions. I was so hopeful that I wrote this article People around the world are beginning to rise up against Coronavirus restrictions and vaccine mandates. My hopes that I was seeing the beginnings of a wave of mass protests that would ultimately result in the end to all of the lockdowns, mask mandates and vaccine mandates that have plagued the world for the past eighteen months, have since been extinguished.
In the two weeks leading up to that previous article, I encountered numerous articles chronicling mass protests where tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of individuals were taking to the streets to demand an end to all liberty destroying Coronavirus restrictions and mandates. These mass protests were happening all around the globe and seemed to be gaining in both the numbers of protests each day and the number of individuals at each protest. It really seemed to me that a momentum was beginning that would feed on itself, and over time, escalate to a point where governments around the world would have no choice but to end all mandates and restrictions.
Unfortunately, these protests petered out soon after I published my article. The momentum stopped and the protests quickly diminished in both size and frequency, without any meaningful easing of restrictions and mandates. None of the conservative and libertarian websites I get my news from are posting stories about new or continuing mass protests now, even those in Australia, which appeared to be on the verge of exploding into mass riots. These mass protests might be continuing, and all sites, even Breitbart is ignoring them, which I doubt.
Right now I am so disheartened by the fact that these mass protests have diminished rather that escalated. I am sickened by the fact so few around the world seem to value their freedom enough to stand up and say, in a firm voice, enough is enough. I am most saddened that so few here in the United States seem to value their freedom and liberty at all. This is most shocking to me considering that the United States used to be the freest and most prosperous nation that ever existed.
I am not going to give up the fight, even though it now seems to be a hopeless cause. I’m actually going to redouble my efforts to bring about a mass nonviolent uprising against all of these mandates and restrictions, and I encourage everyone to do the same. I’ve always been a rabble rouser who enjoys a good fight, even if it is a hopeless cause.
Except under the most dire circumstances nonviolent resistance to any form government tyranny and overreach is far more effective than violent engagement. That is most definitely the case when it comes to the government imposed nightmare most of the world has been living under for the past eighteen months. Violence should always be the absolute last resort. Conditions in all but one nation have not been serious enough to warrant violent resistance. The one possible exception I believe might be Australia where the Tyranny imposed by that government is now most extreme.
Noncompliance is the first step in ending the lockdowns and mandates. Unfortunately the spirit of noncompliance has been very weak here in the United States, thanks to many decades of progressive indoctrination in all levels of American schools. When outdoor mask mandates were instituted here in Massachusetts I simply ignored them. Every day I did my walk without a mask and got away with it. It was not so easy with indoor mask mandates. In this state store owners called the police on individuals not wearing masks. The miscreants were fined and the strore owners then trespassed them so they could not shop there again. That is a heavy price for individuals to face alone. The only way to fight this is organized groups entering stores without masks who, do nothing except peacefully shop. Because of the nationwide surge in individuals testing positive for the Delta Variant, cities and states are reimposing mask mandates. This is being met with far more resistance this time around. I believe the time is right for these unmasking parties. All we need is for individuals in different communities to organize them and make them stick.
In last week’s article I chronicled how mass protests to Coronavirus restrictions are beginning to pop up worldwide. For these restrictions and mandates to end once and for all here in the United States mass protests need to be organized in as many communities as possible, as often as possible. We need to step out of our comfort zones and step up and organize these mass protests through social, media as often as possible until social media shuts us down. Then we need to seek alternate methods to organize.
So few are stepping up and saying enough because they are living in fear, thanks to all of the propaganda being spread by the mainstream media, politicians, government agencies, social media, and so called scientific experts. We need to flood social media with the truth about the true nature of Coronavirus, which is far less harmful to the vast majority of the population than is reported by all of the phony experts and fear mongering media. We need to spread the truth about how ineffective mask mandates and lockdowns are in stopping the spread of any virus. I have been doing this nonstop for well over a year and so have many of my friends. This has cost me a lot of friends on Facebook but that has not stopped me and I don’t care if I go to Facebook jail.
Organized mass protests and individuals willing to coordinate them is the key to ending these lockdowns and mandates.
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