In the 1930s, Germany transformed from a crisis-stricken democracy into a totalitarian Nazi dictatorship. That is not conjecture or exaggeration, those are historical facts. Facts.
As a nation of immigrants, it’s pretty hard not to know someone whose family went through World War II in Europe. And these aren’t merely the stories of the Jewish people who were hunted down and put in concentration camps, there are certainly enough similar stories of people who were not Jewish, and either were in an occupied country, a bombed country like the UK, and in some cases, their families had people who were actually resistance fighters in these various countries.
We have had those frosty masked folks who shall not be named in our own communities. I point you to the two examples most recently in Phoenixville and Malvern.
This isn’t drama, this isn’t conjecture. This is happening, just like we are Minnesota, or Detroit, or Chicago, or pick a city in area in California.
We are watching people being rounded up by armed individuals fully masked most of the time, and never seeming to have the kind of identification you expect from law-enforcement. It’s terrifying.
These unpleasant individuals who shall not be named, surely they can find jobs doing something else? And who are they? They’re not normal law-enforcement are they? They’re not even necessarily former military are they? They are people who want to be all of those people aren’t they? And how are they being trained? Is it to do a job or is it to foment more hate and terror upon the American people?
Because as we have seen, God forbid, you are a normal American person and you get caught up in the middle of one of these scenes. You know like a certain nurse and mom?
From coast to coast, we see these scenes unfold where these cars kind of swoop in and they surround people and other vehicles, I have seen things on Instagram where they’re ramming cars and then accusing people of hitting them and how is it? This craziness just persists?
And then you see them, breaking windows and breaking into homes and dragging people out and flinging them to the ground. You see knees, being jabbed, dangerously hard into people’s spines and you wonder did they really have to subdue them like that?
It doesn’t matter what your immigration status is in this country, every American is being terrorized. My husband has asked me what is wrong with me the past few days, and honestly? Part of it is all of this. We can’t do anything and elected officials in Washington are allowing this, and then we have to wonder who in Harrisburg is enabling this as well?
I will share a video from my Senator Senator Katie Muth’s page that I took this morning off of her social media because she speaks out for her constituents. She’s taking a stand on many things which is more than I can say for a lot of elected officials. This of course puts her at risk making her a target.
If you speak out about this, even as an ordinary person, you’re a target. Here we are at America’s 250th birthday and truly do we still have our inalienable rights? are these storm troopers going to come for us because we can’t believe we’re seeing what we’re seeing in our lifetimes? Here we thought World War II was bad enough, and I guess it had faded from memory enough that it’s like history repeating itself because no one wants to talk about that?
Like many others, I find myself pulling in and staying home. Because if you’re going out, are we gonna find ourselves in a parking lot where people are being thrown to the ground and having their windows, broken and tossed into vans and cars by masked individuals?
And let me be clear if this was lawfully being done with proper paperwork, and the people doing it were more clearly identifiable as who they worked for, would it hit us the same with that feeling of is this World War II or 1930s Germany with social media? If law-enforcement is picking up an actual criminal that is a different scenario.
But this isn’t normal and you have to wonder given what happened in Malvern a couple of weeks ago and then Phoenixville and Montgomery County Pa re they just targeting in part people that they think look different? That of course prompted questions from my friends who are other ethnicities and nationalities, but US citizens . Literally I’ve had them say to me are they going to take me off the street because of the color of my skin?
How do you respond to that and it’s not just people whose skin tone is different from ours. There’s the Irish man in Texas and he’s been there for a few months now in detention.
Then there was the incredible story of an Irish woman living in this country legally with a green card who was detained coming back to the US via Chicago from a funeral in Ireland. Literally a grandmother from Missouri she was finally released just before Christmas.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp390jex3ppo.amp
And then there are the ordinary people that face arrests because they’re standing there bearing witness to what those frosty jerks are doing to people.
I don’t care what the political persuasion is of elected officials in Washington DC, they have the power to stop this. They are choosing not to some of them talk a good game, but for what? Platitudes? Cute little sound bytes for their reelection campaigns?
I’m wondering what it’s like being an American at the Olympics this time? These young athletes have enough pressure on them without the added pressure that the US government has added essentially without their consent.
Now the most recent thing we have learned is how these frosty not so friends employed by the federal government are acquiring office space including in places like Berwyn PA.
Now, also probably having to do with us. I know at least one person who got a call from the GSA saying they were looking for people to work their new office and how insane is that considering they aren’t signed up for anything like this? So are they just looking at phone directories in the area and calling random people? Incidentally, the GSA stands for General Services Administration.
Now I couldn’t find any specific jobs that said Berwyn thus far, but I did find these that I wondered if they were related:
I’ll know how that says Department of Defense and I thought they were calling it Department of War or whatever?
Shakespeare’s Richard III character said famously all those centuries ago:
“Now is the winter of our discontent.”
Yes, I would feel safe to say we’re here. And my friend said would the photos that we see splashed across social media and our televisions have more of an impact if people saw them in black-and-white like 1930s Germany? So I don’t know I just took some screenshots here and converted them to black-and-white and how did they make people feel? Well, here are some of my screenshots convert it to black-and-white. How did they make you feel?
I will close with SAVVY Main Line publishing an article about the new neighbors coming to Berwyn supposedly.
Again, now is the winter of our discontent…. but what happens next?
According to SAVVY :
Presumably, the Berwyn location was chosen for its easy access to major roadways including Route 202, Route 30, Route 252 and the PA Turnpike….Tredyffrin Board of Supervisors Chair David Miller had no comment while Tredyffrin Police Chief Mike Beaty referred SAVVY to the February 5 joint statement issued by the Chester County Police Chiefs Association and the Chester County DA.
