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Is this the last year we celebrate our freedom?
Is this the last year to celebrate our freedom?
So yesterday, everyone celebrated the 4th of July, which to us means freedom. But we need to really think about this freedom we have and what is going to happen to it if and when Project 2025 happens.
So if you've been living under a rock and don't know what this is: Project 2025 proposes that the entire federal bureaucracy, including independent agencies such as the Department of Justice, be placed under direct presidential control – a controversial idea known as “unitary executive theory”.
Even to put back in the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime provision dating back to 1798. Which will expand the footprint of federal law enforcement to police cities and shut down lawful protests.
The 1,000-page Project 2025 playbook calls for far-reaching changes in government, including rolling back protections for the LGBTQ community and infusing Christianity more deeply into society.
If you follow me, I spoke about this years ago, when I watched The Handmaid's Tale. This showed what happened when the extreme right took over the US government and took away all the rights of women, LGBTQ community, Blacks, and anyone else who went against them. It was too close to what could happen and looks a lot like what is happening now.
The problem started when too many people started to believe my vote didn't count and didn't vote. This left the door open for the extreme right to start to take over. We must speak out. We must stand up for others who are losing rights because if you don't, it could be your rights next. Personally, I will be speaking a lot on this subject as I am a believer in all rights for all people. No one is better than anyone else. No one has the power to judge another; only God has the final say on that. (Or whatever higher power you believe in)
If we are to truly have a free country, then we all need to be free. We all need to be on the same playing field.
We are no longer that county in which people came to Ellis Island and saw those words on the Statue of Liberty.
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
So today, my friends, I will leave you with these words that can happen to each and every one of us, just like it did in Germany and the Holocaust.
First, they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me.
Martin Niemöller
“Be the change you want to see”
@TreadmillTreats
© TreadmillTreats
So yesterday, everyone celebrated the 4th of July, which to us means freedom. But we need to really think about this freedom we have and what is going to happen to it if and when Project 2025 happens.
So if you've been living under a rock and don't know what this is: Project 2025 proposes that the entire federal bureaucracy, including independent agencies such as the Department of Justice, be placed under direct presidential control – a controversial idea known as “unitary executive theory”.
Even to put back in the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime provision dating back to 1798. Which will expand the footprint of federal law enforcement to police cities and shut down lawful protests.
The 1,000-page Project 2025 playbook calls for far-reaching changes in government, including rolling back protections for the LGBTQ community and infusing Christianity more deeply into society.
If you follow me, I spoke about this years ago, when I watched The Handmaid's Tale. This showed what happened when the extreme right took over the US government and took away all the rights of women, LGBTQ community, Blacks, and anyone else who went against them. It was too close to what could happen and looks a lot like what is happening now.
The problem started when too many people started to believe my vote didn't count and didn't vote. This left the door open for the extreme right to start to take over. We must speak out. We must stand up for others who are losing rights because if you don't, it could be your rights next. Personally, I will be speaking a lot on this subject as I am a believer in all rights for all people. No one is better than anyone else. No one has the power to judge another; only God has the final say on that. (Or whatever higher power you believe in)
If we are to truly have a free country, then we all need to be free. We all need to be on the same playing field.
We are no longer that county in which people came to Ellis Island and saw those words on the Statue of Liberty.
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
So today, my friends, I will leave you with these words that can happen to each and every one of us, just like it did in Germany and the Holocaust.
First, they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me.
Martin Niemöller
“Be the change you want to see”
@TreadmillTreats
© TreadmillTreats
