Argentina – and South America – short but not all encompassing history lesson.

What is happening in Portland should terrify us. It should get us on our feet, writing our representatives, making calls. If you’ve been silent, now is not the time.

The United States backed The Dirty War in Argentina during which 30,000 Disappeared- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War . Anyone who was on the left or thought to be a threat was targeted.

Now, in the United States, July 17, 2020, unidentified government agents are pulling protestors into vans and carting them away. https://boingboing.net/2020/07/17/unidentified-federal-forces-en.html/amp

1. The Government and Trump wants you to think he’s bringing law and order and taking out ‘thugs’

2. Trump is going to start, and is, using his own military to be a weapon against the American people

3. He wants the American people to think he’s only going after the protestors, immigrants, and other ‘undesirables’

I am angry, shaking, terrified. We knew Trump was bad. We told you he was evil. You didn’t listen. This is happening.

What is my legacy? What is your legacy?

My Grandma Theresa and her sister Anna, whose parents immigrated from Holland, wrote letters to each other about how brave and proud they were of their Dutch heritage as Nazi fighters. https://time.com/5661142/dutch-resistance-friendship/?amp=true . We have circled back again where white nationalists and nazis walk the streets, emboldened by a president who all but openly declares he’s one of them.

The president’s government knows what they are doing. They are tricking the American people into thinking the protestors see evil, that statues are more important than human blood. They are coming for the protestors, and they are coming for those opposed to Trump.

Our lives depend on what we do next.

What will your legacy be?