Horsemen of Fear
My country, 'tis of thee,
sweet
land of liberty,
of
thee I sing:
land
where my fathers died,
land
of the pilgrims' pride,
from
every mountainside
let
freedom ring!
We have songs in America which we learn as Children. I remember singing them all on Friday afternoons during WWII. We love our Country, and take the words of these songs into our collective DNA. As we grow older, we take for granted the truths of these songs. “Let Freedom Ring” is the last sentence of America, My Country Tis a Thee. Do Children still sing these songs?
We sing our National Anthem at football, baseball, and other games where we, part of a large crowd sing proud of our Country and all that it stands for, written in these songs.
What song would we sing when horsemen come into parks where children are playing and happiness is destroyed by trucks of military men with masked faces that seem like a movie is playing out in this new reality. The horses have face shields, the men with black masks completely covering their faces. These same horsemen trampled a man last month in Los Angeles. This is not let Freedom Ring this is terror.
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| MacArthur Park L.A. |
Our Friends, neighbors, and workers we depend on are now fearful of the ICE team dragging them into vans without cause or warrants. Let Freedom Ring seems far away, and broken. If you have a brown skin, no warrant needed, no due process is available, no criminal background can save you.
I have always admired policemen on horses. They let you pet the horse and they are your friend and protector. Now, it seems that our President's henchwoman, Kristi Noem is playing out some kind of power ploy, and gives National Security as a reason for this action for employing the National Guard and Horsemen to inculcate fear into our Communities.
The President says that He Loves God. What kind of Man says love and god in the same sentence and then employs Horsemen to instill fear in our People...
