DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: Every bad idea to take away freedom began with a clever idea to make life easier – are you paying attention?

I didn’t think I was going to have to go down this rabbit hole this week. After talking to people over the last few days it might be a good idea.

Especially since the propaganda machine has been overactive this last week.

Let us talk about the peaceful protests that were held around the country on Oct. 18.

Who knows how many people – it depends on who you ask.

We can agree it was widely attended by both sides of the aisle and by those in between.

I hated the fact they called it “No Kings,” because quite frankly it was much more than that, and that wasn’t properly explained.

Just like in days of old when Joe Joe’s administration went all out to divide and conquer, this No King protest seemed to have the same narrative against it too.

I wasn’t in agreement with the one held during the summer.

However, the protest this past Saturday wasn’t a radical left protest. I haven’t heard if there were any fights, murders, or dysfunction from the blue or red.

I happen to know it was a bipartisan affair because I know red people sick of what is going on in this country that attended alongside their blue allies.

And that scares those in charge – because their gig is close to being up.

I was a little embarrassed for our Texas governor when I saw the press release he put out “Governor Abbott Deploys DPS, Texas National Guard Ahead Of Antifa-Linked Protest” (gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-deploys-dps-texas-national-guard-ahead-of-antifa-linked-protest).

U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson tried to pull the same thing.

To get the United States back, we need to start living in truth – and our politicians need to join us on that mission.

A lot of people wanted to know why the protest was held.

From what I can tell, those who are not radically left or radically right have realized we are not going back to business as usual pre-COVID and we need to produce a plan to heal the United States. That plan needs to start with getting rid of the cancer that includes years of lies, years of arrogance from both sides of the aisle and years of complete lethargy by the American people.

Saturday’s protest was a small step in that direction according to some attendees I’ve talked with about it.

While the blame game is futile, the majority of Americans who are refusing to play the game anymore is not.

Let us be honest, with ourselves at least. There is NO WAY any person reading this or living in the United States could ever get away with being hired (like our politicians) and then commence to take bribes, lie and then not bother to even do a budget without getting fired.

We tell them what to do since we hired them.

If they don’t do it, they need to be excused from their job, don’t pass go and definitely you will not be collecting your $1 million/trillion dollars from AIPAC or anyone else.

In my simple formula for a better government (and yes, I do realize this is an elementary solution, but we must start somewhere), we need to demand term limits, demand the removal of lobbyists and their ownership of politicians and, if you can’t figure out how to approve and compromise a budget for the good of the American people you need to go home and find a new job. Hopefully not involving a budget since you cannot seem to comprehend that part of the job description currently.

The American people are beginning to get the picture.

Do you still want to know why the peaceful protests happened? Here are a few thoughts I heard bandied around.

Why are groups like ICE equipped with the technology to invade every person’s privacy?

Why was plenary authority mentioned by an executive branch staffer referring to the president?

Why does the government we hired allow what paperwork “we the people” can see, what lists we can see? If the American people want to see the Epstein list, it shouldn’t be the government’s choice to keep it hidden. If the American people cannot manage it, that’s not the government’s problem. Except for the fact that if half of the country is on the list (politicians, celebrities, sports figures) we might fire them.

Why can’t the American people see everything there is about the Kennedy assassination – doesn’t this country belong to us?

What about the overblown psyops? Does anyone ever feel like they are living in a movie? 911, Charlie Kirk, hidden CIA projects experimenting on the American people for years. Go down that rabbit hole on your own.

What about Hunter Biden’s laptop and the circus around that mess? Why is that suppressed?

Remember COVID? Why did our government or any government think they had the right to lock down an entire world with no choice and then make threats if you didn’t get the vaccine? Then we find out the vaccine wasn’t what it was said to be and yet some people still don’t get the plot. Why would anyone allow the person they put in office to tell them what to do, where to eat, where they can and cannot go, you get the point. They didn’t even care that your loved ones had to die alone.

What an experiment, and yet here we are.

Did anyone do any more research on the fires in Hawaii and Los Angeles or the flood in North Carolina (and they are still finding bodies). Have we forgotten it all because something else came up?

Weather manipulation and states outlawing it. Why would government decide to harm the environment and its citizens?

And what about Antarctica, why is it we cannot seem to get along anywhere on this earth and suddenly this one continent is off limits and everyone respects it.

Why are people forced to pay tax on what you have been taxed on already?

Why do we need big brother cameras everywhere?

What about 5g (everyone needs to research that), or companies like Palantir moving us one step closer to the dystopian society no one wants. In May the New York Times published an article “Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans,” detailing a supposed combined effort between the U.S. federal government and the data software company to centralize data on American citizens.

Do your research and learn your history and you will see every bad idea came from a good one that was sold to the people with a big bow on top.

Like a digital ID and then digital currency, and then you will not even recognize yourself anymore.

Who exactly are these lawmakers who work for us, yet think they are doing us a favor.

They should consider it a privilege to be there.

Yet they act as if it is our privilege they are there.

And for all my gun toting buddies did you see this: “DOJ Official, Gun Groups Clash Over Claim That Pam Bondi Sought Membership Lists in Lawsuit” (thetexan.news/issues/second-amendment/doj-official-gun-groups-clash-over-claim-that-pam-bondi-sought-membership-lists-in-lawsuit/article_33cd6e75-b93c-46e5-a710-a9de20ce1cda.html).

Read this and come to your own conclusion.

I’m at the point where I assume everything I read is a bad fiction novel and then I proceed to do my own research. Sometimes that research is thick with narrative and propaganda before I get to the root of the answer.

Not every human is going to think alike. That’s the way it should be.

But we must get along.

We must be willing to believe in our rights as humans standing side by side if not in agreement, at least in respect.

And that was Saturday’s protests. Grassroots perhaps, but you must begin somewhere.

And so many reasons, but the reasons all come down to one thing – freedom.

It is an American right.

So, if you are right or left and have a problem with anyone peacefully protesting you are the problem.

Because you don’t believe in the constitution and that puts everyone’s freedom at risk.

We need order and yes, people have proven they cannot always regulate their behavior.

But order begins with respect.

Can we agree to disagree?

Can we agree we don’t have to be rude every time someone does not agree with us?

Can we treat each other the way we want to be treated?

If people were as worried about the Epstein list, AIPAC, the government shutdown and voting at every election as they are about the size of the weekend rally this country might make it after all.

It begins with YOU!

Rita Cook is a freelance writer for The Ellis County Press. She can be reached at rcook13@earthlink.net.