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Tyrants and Plutocrats Should Worry About Their Chefs and Drivers and Bodyguards
The protesters don’t kill but disgruntled servants — worried about abuse, impoverishment and brutality— could shorten lives.
The American people are rising up and we will end tyranny in the 21st century just as we did in the 18th. This time, we will do it with nonviolent noncooperation.
Peacefully, we will oust dictatorship and reclaim our inalienable rights.
We pose no physical threat whatsoever to the people who hold and abuse power. But that doesn’t mean they are safe.
It would be wise for them to NOT wait for us to remove them from their unearned offices, and to voluntarily relinquish their illegitimate powers. Because although The People’s movement is a peaceful one, others have a different approach.
Some heavily armed Americans are fearful and angry and want revenge. Many of these people are right-wingers who feel betrayed. We’ve seen how they can behave on January 6, 2021. They want blood. They are ready to gun down plutocrats. We are not with them. We abhor violence and consider it an abomination. But we cannot control those people, or protect our foolish (temporary) rulers from them.
Our movement’s members—both secular and religious—consider human life and human dignity to…
