(I couldn’t help tearing up when
I read this! – CL)
As we’ve been saying on the Ron Paul Liberty Report for some time, in
this period of coronavirus and the naked power-grabs by authoritarian
politicians from all levels of government, if there is any hope to claw back
some of our liberties it will come from the bottom up.
Politicians are drunk on power and they are
not about to enter any kind of 12 step program.
But throughout the country it is the
people who are fighting back. And they are scoring tremendous victories. On a
small scale, a hundred flowers are blooming daily as Americans who perhaps
yesterday were not at all political, or who went along to get along, are
realizing what is at stake and are standing up.
The elites laughed at the
“flyover country” folks in places like the Lake of the Ozarks who ignored demands that they practice “social distancing”
and wear masks in public over Memorial Day weekend and simply
went out and had a good time. In fact the elites and the sycophants openly
wished these people would contract Covid and die as punishment for ignoring the
orders of their “betters.”
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That’s
how sick things have become.
Here
in Texas the speaker of the house Dennis Bonnen – ostensibly a conservative
Republican – has warned us lowly citizens that if we want big daddy government
to allow us to conduct business again in this state, we need to bow down and
scrape.
He told USA Today that if we don’t wear
masks whenever we go outside, we can’t have our freedom back:
I
don’t know what message they are sending other than the message of stupidity
that they’re not going to wear a face covering in public. Well, pick it. Either
you want the economy open or you want to be selfish and not wear a face
covering when you are out in the public.
The corrupt Dennis Bonnen may think he can
push Texans around, but perhaps he’s had his own mask on too tight and is
suffering from hypoxia.
Down
here in Brazoria county a strong independent spirit runs through the vibrant
and active homeschool movement. In fact Texas homeschoolers and particularly
Brazoria County homeschoolers have been the backbone of Ron Paul country.
Earlier this month, a group of
homeschoolers mobilized and began challenging the ridiculous closures of
playgrounds throughout Brazoria County through direct action.
It is the
most outrageous abuse of power to deny children the ability to go outside in
the sun, help virus-killing vitamin D to flow through their systems, and get
the exercise that is most directly associated with a healthy immune system and
resistance to coronavirus.
Government
restricting children from that which keeps them healthy is not “science” – it’s
criminal.
So this group, the “Park
Patriots,” took action. First they descended
on a park in Lake Jackson, Ron Paul’s hometown, and after the city
workers called the police on them they gave the police a lesson in the law and
law enforcement. They ended up at city hall and successfully got the vice mayor
to admit that there was no force of law behind the forced shutdown of parks.
Officials pretended they had the authority to deny citizens the facilities they
were forced to pay for, but in the end a “guideline” is quite different than a
law.
The
mothers returned to the park and let their kids loose on the playground.
Victory indeed.
Today
the “Park Patriots” struck again, trudging up to Angleton’s “Freedom Park” to
again let their homeschooled kids loose on the taped up playground – and to
reclaim their freedom.
As
they arrived they began dismantling the tape and the other impediments to
children using the facilities:
The
orange fencing keeping children from enjoying the park that their parents paid
for ended up exactly where it belonged:
One
of the children – in this case your author’s own daughter – relished the idea
of smashing through the ridiculous “caution” tape on the swings:
Once
again it was city workers who called the police on the people who pay their
salaries – notice a pattern here? – and soon enough some squad cars showed up.
https://youtu.be/8S7uCpivZLM (Be sure
to watch!)
Ironic
how the officer with “We The People” tattooed across his arm showed up with
such contempt for the actual people. One of the homeschool fathers hit the
perfect note when he reminded the officer that it was in fact the park itself
that belonged to the same “We The People” he was wearing on his arm.
Also of interest is that when
the officer’s falsely asserted authority to remove the children from the park
was obliterated by the excellent rhetoric of the parents, how only response was
the bizarre “y’all anti-vaxxers?” Bad move, officer!
Finally,
the officer, totally defeated by the arguments of the parents, turned heel and
walked away, leaving his colleague dumbfounded and alone. She also turned
around and walked away.
One
group of parents broke off to go to the city hall to directly challenge
authorities and the other group remained at the park.
Eventually
the officer returned to the homeschoolers remaining at the park. He tried to
act friendly at this point. “The chief of police has decided that you can
remain at the park.”
Victory:
And
thanks to these brave and dedicated homeschoolers, “Freedom Park” is free
again:
We can all make a difference. We can
all fight for our freedom, one small battle at a time. We can all help defeat
the tyrants.
And finally: Don’t mess with
Texas…homeschoolers!
Daniel
McAdams is the Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and
Prosperity.
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