Revolutionary Acts

When you can’t speak your mind to a friend without fear that someone else is listening who will misinterpret, codify, twist; when you cannot speak your private thoughts, then that silence creates a revolutionary whether or not that revolutionary ever evolves into revolutionary action. When we are forced to whisper into a trusted ear rather than shout out our thoughts to any and all who would hear without inspiring fear of reprisal in us, then we are engaging in a revolutionary act.

The current administration is in the act of producing revolutionaries of all of us except the 1% richest citizens of this country. The Patriot Act is just that: an official act that creates revolutionaries and patriots so that we may be seized, imprisoned, and destroyed even if it is not our intent to betray America.

No American will stand for being censored when it comes to expressing his or her thoughts. It is not a part of the American psyche to accept fear and to whisper. It is in the American psyche to die for the liberty that courses through our veins; as much a part of our genetic makeup as those very first and original patriots who stood for us then and declared: “Give me Liberty, or give me death.”

We cannot be silenced because we are an idea. We are Americans.