Attorney General Pam Bondi asserted Antifa was “no different” from the MS-13 drugs gang, citing the experiences of MAGA influencers to support her claims.
She accused Antifa of being responsible for the “chaos” in Portland and other cities, where crowds have protested the deployment of federal agents. “They’re at all of these events, they’re encouraging violence, they’re calling everyone fascist, but it’s more than that. It’s hurting the American people. They’re no different than MS-13 or any gang out there.”
She added: “Talk to all the influencers who have been threatened and beat up and their lives threatened from Antifa members. It’s going to stop under Donald Trump.”
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
There was a dream that was the United States of America. A dream that any man, that anyone, could seek out their fortune and happiness. Being free to succeed, free to fail. But free above all else to seek happiness and liberty. This dream has never really been realised, but there was always hope that one day it could be. That The United States of America could be a place of hope, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness for all. That hope, that most fragile of things, is under attack. A dark cloud of control and censorship that seeks to stamp out that hope of freedom. If there was ever a line, it has surely been crossed now that theres masked men lifting people off the streets for the crime of “looking brown”. At some point this has to stop being a battle in ones and zeroes, and needs to be taken to the very streets of those who would take away freedom and hope of the masses for their own gain. At some point, the line has to be drawn that the will of the people will not tolerate it being broken.
There are many tools to challenge tyranny in The United States of America. Legal, and otherwise. And it is, or should be, the duty of every citizen to use those tools to protect liberty, freedom, happiness and most of all, hope. To paraphrase the famous words of Jean Luc Picard,
“I will not sacrifice these United States. We’ve made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They kidnap people in broad daylight under the guise of law, and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they’ve done!”.