Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight
- Bob Marley 1973
A nationalist will say “it can’t happen here,” which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says it could happen here but that we will stop it.
-Timothy Snyder On Tyranny 2017
*Hitler democratically elected as Chancellor of Germany in 1932. In March, 1933, Dauchau concentration camp, outside of Munich, was built. It was in operation for 12 years. Eventually 1.1 million people (including Jews, Poles, gays, Catholic priests, Communists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Romani) are estimated to have died there. en.wikipedia.org/...
*tRump was elected in 2016. Mandatory detention (“zero tolerance”) policy implemented in 2018. Children detained, families separated and sexual and physical abuse of migrant women and children occurs. In June 2019 the US Senate approved the appropriation of $4.6 billion for US Customs and Border Protection (CPB) to fund migrant detention centers (concentration camps) maintained by private corporations such as GEO Group geogroup.com and Corecivic www.corecivic.com Detention info: en.wikipedia.org From 2017-2019, 5.8 million people have been detained in over 200 US detention centers. www.freedomforimmigrants.org/...
*Members of the Department of Homeland Security, the US Department of Justice, Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), US Marshals Service, and the US Customs and Border Protection service were ordered to Portland in July by the tRump administration. The executive order claimed they were needed to in response to “violent anarchists [who would help] destroy our Country as we know it.” Other cities such as Chicago, Seattle, Washington DC, Atlanta, Kansas City have been threatened with armed federal forces. These were termed “Rapid Deployment Teams” by the tRump administration. Wearing no identification, in camouflage gear, and without the permission of local Mayors, Governors , and elected Federal Representatives they proceeded to capture civilians and take them away in un-marked cars to unknown destinations where some are arrested. www.snopes.com/...
Nothing is Something (a poem)
If we do nothing when undocumented people are put into concentration camps because’ they’ are not like ‘us’,
If we do nothing when our black and brown brothers and sisters are brutalized because ‘they’ are not like ‘us’,
If we do nothing while protesters are abused, criminalized, beaten, and arrested because ‘they’ are not like ‘us’,
Then we are willing participants,
Because doing nothing is doing something.
So, fight back:
-don’t forget the past
-stand up for your rights
-vote
-be a Patriot