It must be stopped.
There is a “they” out there, somewhere.
And there is a you and me and together are us — and we are going to stop them
The White Rose Resistance fought Nazi Germany hand-to-hand with words, with writing, to save their countrymen, their nation.
“I’M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE INVOLVED IN THIS”
Most of us do not have inside information, have not had the privilege of sitting close-by and smelling the cigar smoke of the actual plotters, but once in a while we catch a hint of a loose whiff on the wind.
“They” are able to put the lie everywhere immediately. And they keep it going, everywhere, all the time.
That is power.
The cover story dives deep. Roots are planted.
First the event happens, the play is staged, the media takes its cue, the public is engaged, and then the detailed fake back-story is added and then it can finally be said: this indeed happened as we said, please go about your day, move along. The dissidents are laughed at, sneered at, corralled into a corner.
Why can’t people just live.
Why can’t we all just be good to each other, take what we need and give
some to somebody else.
Why do some people have to be Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, George Bush,
Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama.
Why?
That’s a hard question, the why
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---Mike Palecek