February 14, 2019

The lie that will not die



If you disagree with what they say, they can put you in jail, simple as that. One way or another, they’ll find a way. Because now there are laws that insist you may not defame the memory of the dead, you may not oppose sanctions against Israel, and you may not disagree with what government officials have told you is the truth. Even though you know what they say is not true, you must agree with it or they will put you in jail, after first ruining the rest of your life.

And all your neighbors, cringing from the same threat that darkens your own future, won’t lift a finger to help you, for fear of losing their own . . . well, they call it freedom, but as you are beginning to learn, it is something considerably less than that. After all, now you have to get government permission to even reproduce, and with that there is no guarantee that the government won’t steal your baby for reasons they make up in a program so gruesome you don’t even really want to think about it.

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