Meanwhile, the oblivious majority are comfortable in their velvet gulag while too many of their January 6th, 2021, citizen brothers and sisters languish as political prisoners in more traditional gulags. America has the most egregious example of government persecuting one of its political rivals in the unending lawfare against presidential candidate Donald Trump. If the government can so blatantly use government agencies against the political threat of Donald Trump, what chance does the average citizen have who might choose to oppose the sitting regime. Allow me to paraphrase Pastor Martin Niemöller when he spoke about what happened in Germany during WWII.
First they came for the January 6th demonstrators, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a January 6th demonstrator.
Then they came for Donald Trump, and I did not speak out—
Because Trump was not my problem.
Then they came for the activist patriots, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not an activist patriot.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
That is how the velvet gulag will morph into a gulag of a different nature, and then it will be game over and too late to fix what’s broken. America, Canada, and the free world will die by suicide as a result of the individual criminals in our governments who betrayed the Constitution and the citizens who mistakenly put them in their positions of power and then failed to hold them accountable.
“This is the way the world will end.
This is the way the world will end.
This is the way the world will end.
Not with a bang, but a whimper.” ~ T.S. Eliot