how safe is safe?
when this is the state of affairs, when our president is hanging on to power by taking as much of it as she can at the expense of the constitution, the rule of law, the protected rights of the citizen which have always been balanced with those of the state's.
dissenters left and right are being arrested. students are massing at gathering places in their schools. professors are cancelling class in protest. nuns and priests are praying.
how safe is safe? if to be safe means to not say a word or do a thing which could in some way be construed as subversive or rebellious or seditious, if it means choosing the people you talk to and being afraid to give your name when giving a comment to the media, if it means there are prior restraints not only on freedom to speak and to peaceably assemble and to get information, if it means that soldiers will be walking around in plain clothes waiting, just waiting, for a slip of the tongue, is it worth it?
to not be free to move and talk and think the way you have a right to? is that life even?
i've never been an activist. edsa one-as a baby on the shoulders of my uncle, and dos-as a high school student i went to, but nothing else since then. i've always thought that rallyists devote much of their time to shouting at the rain and getting shit for it. i've always thought that maybe, just maybe, i WILL rally again. when it's worth it.
i think this is that time.
now if i could only figure out a way to do it without my dad grounding me for life. (of course i'll still stand up for my beliefs, but i'd rather have an allowance while doing so)
leaving you with a quote:
it is not the critic who counts:not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose faced is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again...who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly.- theodore roosevelt.
dissenters left and right are being arrested. students are massing at gathering places in their schools. professors are cancelling class in protest. nuns and priests are praying.
how safe is safe? if to be safe means to not say a word or do a thing which could in some way be construed as subversive or rebellious or seditious, if it means choosing the people you talk to and being afraid to give your name when giving a comment to the media, if it means there are prior restraints not only on freedom to speak and to peaceably assemble and to get information, if it means that soldiers will be walking around in plain clothes waiting, just waiting, for a slip of the tongue, is it worth it?
to not be free to move and talk and think the way you have a right to? is that life even?
i've never been an activist. edsa one-as a baby on the shoulders of my uncle, and dos-as a high school student i went to, but nothing else since then. i've always thought that rallyists devote much of their time to shouting at the rain and getting shit for it. i've always thought that maybe, just maybe, i WILL rally again. when it's worth it.
i think this is that time.
now if i could only figure out a way to do it without my dad grounding me for life. (of course i'll still stand up for my beliefs, but i'd rather have an allowance while doing so)
leaving you with a quote:
it is not the critic who counts:not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose faced is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again...who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly.- theodore roosevelt.
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