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Garland Just Tipped Over the Dominos : American Greatness

The one positive note in all of this is the possibility that enough people are angry enough to confront their would-be masters. General Mark Milley bragged that he, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, represented the guys with the guns. That was the same sentiment Joe Biden expressed when he said that if you wanted to challenge the government, you would need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons.  

In fact you don t need fighter jets or nukes, just steadfastness and commitment, both of which are contagious. Nicole Solas, a mother who has complained about her school board, has been harassed and even sued by the authorities. Go ahead, arrest me, she said on Twitter. They wanted to publicly humiliate me, she said. They paid a PR firm to call me a racist in the national media. So they really wanted to ostracize me from my community.

Garland is having multilevel law enforcement meetings as if parents truly are domestic terrorists, like the National School Boards Association said we were. And it s scary because you re starting to see how this fits into this broader political narrative where the federal government is really trying to purge ideological opponents . . . 

So [in] this crazy time that we re living in . . . you really learn who s willing to put their boots on your neck, given the opportunity . . . 

If they re trying to chill our speech, then we need to talk louder and we need to talk more and we can t let them chill our speech.

Which brings me to dominos. I think parents need to be assured that you re going to have more support than you think, Solas remarked, because it s like a domino effect. When one parent speaks out, another parent feels like it s safe for them to speak out. And you just need one person to start that.

The sound you hear is the sound of the dominos beginning to fall, one after the next. I hope that their cascading collapse is coming soon enough and will be widespread enough to head off the larger, more devastating collapse that would likely ensue in the absence of that movement of catharsis.

via amgreatness.com