08/25/2017
This is where I stand. Period. AND I will NOT make ANY apologies for the following words or statements.
I am aware that there are those who are tired of political postings and rants. For me, Facebook is a vehicle/platform, a way to use my voice...in support of many different things. As a passionate person, I have many interests, as seen by my posts.
It is also a way for me to engage against the current administration in the White House, DT's power hungry cronies and their positions of authority-ALL of whom pose a real and active threat to me, my way of life, my family, friends, the people I love and MANY others.
So unless you are in a good financial place (think billionaire) they are a threat to you and your life as well. I will continue to be a part of the resistance, and proud of it. It is a gift to me - my heart, to others and my Children and grandchildren. When they are my age, I want them to remember what I stood for, not what I silently looked away from.
I refuse to "play nice" in the face of what these people are doing. Our country's well-being demands that we stand and resist.
Some people are saying that we should give #45 a chance, that we should "work together" with him because he won the election and he is "everyone's president."
This is my response:
• I will not forget how badly he and so many others treated former President Barack Obama for EIGHT YEARS...
• I will not "work together" to privatize Medicare, cut Social Security and Medicaid.
• I will not "work together" to remove civil rights from ANYONE.
• I will not "work together" to destroy marriage equality and make it a states right to deny love between two people.
• I will not "work together" to allow men to make choices about a woman's own body, or to restrict health care for women.
• I will not "work together" to deny health care to people who need it.
• I will not "work together" to increase the profits of the insurance companies.
• I will not "work together" to deny medical coverage to people on the basis of an alleged or actual "pre-existing condition."
• I will not "work together" to build a wall.
• I will not "work together" to persecute Muslims.
• I will not "work together" to shut out refugees from countries where we destabilized their governments, so that we could have something more agreeable to our oligarchy.
• I will not "work together" to lower taxes on the 1%.
• I will not "work together" to increase taxes on the middle class and poor.
• I will not "work together" to help #45 use the Presidency to line his pockets and those of his cronies.
• I will not "work together" to weaken and demolish environmental protection.
• I will not "work together" to sell American lands, especially National Parks, to companies which then despoil those lands.
• I will not "work together" to enable the killing in any way of whole species of animals just because they are predators, or inconvenient for a few, or because some people want to get their thrills killing them.
• I will not "work together" to waste trillions more on our military when we already have the strongest in the world.
• I will not "work together" to alienate countries that have been our allies for as long as I have been alive.
• I will not "work together" to slash funding for education.
· I will not "work together" to eliminate the arts or the institutions that support them.
• I will not "work together" to take basic assistance from people who are at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.
• I will not "work together" to allow torture and "black op" prison sites.
• I will not "work together" to "take their oil."
• I will not "work together" to get rid of common sense regulations on guns.
• I will not "work together" to eliminate the minimum wage.
• I will not "work together" to support so-called "Right To Work" laws, or undermine, weaken or destroy Unions in any way.
• I will not "work together" to suppress scientific research, be it on climate change, fracking, or any other issue where a majority of scientists agree that #45 and his supporters are wrong on the facts.
• I will not "work together" to increase the number of nations that have nuclear weapons.
• I will not "work together" to put even more "big money" into politics.
• I will not "work together" to violate the Geneva Convention.
• I will not "work together" to give the Ku Klux Klan, the N**i Party and white supremacists a seat at the table, or to normalize their hatred.
• I will not "work together" to increase voter suppression.
• I will not "work together" to normalize tyranny.
• I will not “work together” to eliminate or reduce ethical oversite at any level of government.
• I will not "work together" with anyone who is, or admires, tyrants and dictators who murder their opposition.
• I will not "work together" with #45 because I will not allow one man to feed upon the fears of the populace, blaming minorities for their condition or their inability to thrive.
This is the line, and I am drawing it.
• I DO and willl stand for honesty, love, respect for all living beings, and for the compassion and humanity that is the center of Life itself.
• I will use my voice and my hands, to reach out to the uninformed, and to anyone who will LISTEN for what's really so dangerous about #45, his friends and the Big Lie they spin to the world:
• That "winning", "being great again", "rich" or even "beautiful" is anything more than nothing when others are sacrificed to glorify its existence.
Consider this an opportunity to make a declaration of commitment, in becoming part of a resistance. It's your choice to make a difference.
If you want to post this on your page - use the copy/ paste feature then you can add your name to the list and make a bigger impact.
- Jim Robinson, Huntington WV
- Tim Rowden
- Stacey Crawford, Saint Louis, Missouri
- Kenneth Hendricks, Saint Petersburg, Florida
- Lou Castillo, Houston, Texas
- KL Rhavensfyre, North Carolina
- Paula Wyant, Pennsylvania
- Dolores Mimiaga Simpson, Los Angeles, CA
- ML Church, Eugene,
- Sido Surkis, Eugene, Oregon
-Joel Levin, Poulsbo, Washington
-Tom Ballard, Seattle
-Christine Wick, Seattle
Laurie Wick, Bellevue Washington
April Thanos, Gulfport, FL
Cynthia L. Jurgensen, Powell Butte, Or
Jo Jorgensen Redmond, OR
Gail Provo, Maple Valley, WA
Bernadette Zacirka
Robert Varner,Jr. New Brighton, Minnesota
Susan L Taylor, Melboring, floria-DUH
Mary Burke, Cedar Rapids IA
Laura hubka Ricevilke IA
Mario Romero West Covina, CA
Keeley Level Palm Springs, CA
Phyllis Levin Philadelphia, PA
Ron Shackelford, Wilmington NC,
Sharon Moshier, Shelton Washington .
Rick Critelli, Big Bear Lake, CA,
-Terry Heatwole, Conway, SC
Ruth Todd, Travelers Rest, SC
Nadia Land-Greene, Greer, SC
Linda Hardman, Greer, SC
Emily Hale Moss, Greenville, SC
Michael Hawley, Greenville, SC
Thomas Grant, Dalian, China
George Finegan ,Sandy Springs,Ga.
James Henry Willis, McMinnville OR
Edward James Farrar, OR
MG Cresson MI
Nancy Bassett CO
Johnny Hernandez Modesto,CA.
Frankie Firme Los Angeles, CA
Abbe Effron Cherry Hill, NJ
Nancy W. Machinton
Rabbi Lenny Levin, South Orange, NJ
Rabbi Arthur Gould, Alameda, Ca
Art Rosenberg, San Francisco, CA
John Rosenberg
Ray Shanahan
Marty Miner
Vicki Mears Duffett
Noah Griffin
Nancy Moyle. Brian Bowen
Steve and Patricia Shaft At large
