Tyrants
By: Paul Ramey
Tags: Tyranny, Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Trump Administration, Protest

I posted a sign outside of the White House yesterday. The sign, written on black paper, and made by a friendly trio of girls who had set up a street-side supply station, on this side was 3 words- ‘ Sic Semper Tyrannis’, translated from Latin to express what is the enduring promise of the American people to their government- “I will bring death to Tyrants.” This promise has endured the ages, stretching back to the Revolutionary War.

Tyranny is not a political ideology. It is a state of disrepair in the Government. George Washington understood this when his troops in Valley Forge put on a production of ‘Cato’, a tragic play in which the titular character is slain by the hand of a conquering Julius Caesar. Tyranny is the greedy hoarding of political power by a singular individual and his allies, it is the enrichment of this group at the expense of the taxpaying and laboring citizen, it is the violent and unneeded suppressing of peaceful protest. Trump is guilty of all these things.

At the behest of Donald Trump and Jim Acosta, tear gas was deployed against hundreds of American citizens, seeking reform on what is a clear pattern of suspicious violence against urban populations, especially African American individuals. This tear gas was deployed at roughly 6:35pm, into a crowd that included children, elderly, and the disabled. Curfew in DC was set for 7pm. The President infringed on the Constitutional rights of every American in that crowd. The president can not revoke 25 minutes of legal protesting because he can not revoke even a single second of legal protesting.

Trump is not a friend of the American people. His actions are solely in service of building a Communist-esque personality cult. Through the bloated powers of the Executive Branch, he has strong-armed or indoctrinated the Republican Party. Donald Trump does not care about the happenings of Government unless they can be twisted into a manner that benefits him directly, either financially or as a means of building up his ego.

If you are reading this, you are most likely American or a citizen of a friendly and free state. Your rights belong to you. Utilize them. Educate yourself on precisely what our forefathers gave to us as tools to liberate yourselves from figures such as this. History is filled with decades-long downturns in human prosperity, happiness, and freedom. Human progress is not a guarantee, it is a bitter struggle that we’ve managed to build on. But do not let this progress slide away to complacency and ignorance.

The consequences of allowing progress to slide are numerous in the modern day. Oligarchic societies that act as a parasite on the very people that support them from below. As an example, when the Russian government decriminalized domestic abuse, it won the support of the followers of the Orthodox Church there, but gave over the safety of Russian women everywhere. Russian Police refused to investigate anything; even a case of a woman being attacked with an axe.

Fear and hate tyrants, because tyrants will shake your hand with their right and then choke you with the left. Much like Trump’s proverbial scorpion, it’s in their nature.