A reader writes:
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Do y'all not realize that the letters and reading materials that are addressed to prisoners....particularly POLITICAL prisoners... are without exception are HEAVILY CENSORED and INTERCEPTED? You don't think severe "moderation" is going on? Anything I would have to say to them would never reach its destination. And you'd be put on a list to be rounded up....without your letter even making it through.
Your plan, while kindhearted, seems naive and not cognizant of the realities surrounding the situation. Prove me wrong.
-A Reader
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Dear reader, your concerns are duly noted.
But I believed misplaced.
I think it is important that we not present the enemy as a bigger threat than he really is.
We must operate in reality as much as possible.
Reality means sometimes we must do this:
step 1.) shoot
step 2.) correct
step 3.) shoot
step 4.) correct
This "Fire and then aim" approach, while very much imperfect, is usually better than:
Aim,
aim,
second guess yourself,
have a big discussion about it,
aim,
aim,
aim some more and then finally
fire (if you aren’t dead yet).
"Fire and then aim" at least gets you in the right direction.
Of course the old reliable
ready!
aim!
FIRE!!!
is best. But sometimes you are operating in an environment that does not allow for aiming before shooting.
And with such an environment you must be ready for fire and then aim.
If not, you resolve yourself to a bad outcome without even trying.
It might be nice to have perfect insight into the mind of every prison guard and to know every secretive DOJ order that exists, but we simply can’t.
It might be nice to have a perfect guarantee that ever plan will work out perfectly every time, but we simply can’t, and definitely not with this one.
Prison is an intentionally obfuscatory environment.
But that being said, it is not the environment you describe of.
Hundreds are active in writing J6 prisoners without much difficulty.
And I want that number to be a couple of orders of magnitude higher: tens of thousands.
I want even school children and
Sunday school classes and yes,
even city councils, to be sending letters to these heroes.
That’s the world I want to help bring about.
But difficulty may emerge tomorrow.
I understand that.
That is no reason not to do the right thing today.
Let the tyrant’s hand be forced to censor the public outpouring and love for these prisoners — it will only make them more popular, to which the tyrant will respond with even more pressure, until one of us fails.
Judging from the massive outpouring of inner city blacks in favor of Trump the last few days, I do not think it will be our side that gives in first.
But I may be wrong, and will respond accordingly if I am.
If all letters are censored I’ll try a different approach.
If all letters are censored maybe I’ll use my secret decoder ring.
If all letters are censored maybe I’ll send drawings.
If all letters are censored maybe I go to the press and complain, do a podcast tour of the few dozen conservatives who aren’t cucked and cowed on this topic.
Maybe I go to the courts.
Maybe I appeal to the warden about the matter.
Maybe I’ll even travel prison to prison and visit each warden to understand the problem better.
But I know this much.
I won’t engage in self-censorship.
Based on the people I know who work in prisons, it is an understatement to say that many prison guards would like this project.
Some of them probably have secret crushes on the J6ers in the DC gulag when they lead many prisoners in the impromptu singing of the Star Spangled Banner at 9pm every night.
For a tyrannical system to work, you need mass compliance of the operators within the system.
You don’t have that right now in America.
You, in fact, seldom get that in any country, so then the only thing that works is this: to leave the people (especially the opposition) in a state of dismay.
Discouragement.
Hopelessness.
I am sorry, but as I have written in my latest piece on Julian Assange, which I expect published tomorrow, I do not believe, dear reader, that I am being the naive one here, I do not believe I am being the eternal optimist here, I do not believe I am being the Pollyannaish one here.
I believe it is you behaving that way.
Only you are being, for some reason, eternally optimistic about the successfulness of figures like Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, Gavin Newsom, and dare I say — satan, the master who at least some of those men seem to serve.
You are echoing their wildest dreams.
But the way they say America will work is simply not how America actually works.
And the quicker we can get that through our heads, the quicker we can get to work dealing with the handful of pressing problems that do need fixing.
That is something I am presently doing.
I write this letter because I want all of my readers to have the opportunity to know about that effort and to participate in it, especially at this early stage that they may one day proudly say “I was there from the beginning.”
The J6 prisoners are national heroes that we can individually be connecting with better — to both encourage ourselves and to encourage them.
That will impact even our families, their families, and the communities around us.
This is a very special opportunity that should not be lightly dismissed, especially not because the miserable Klaus Schwab says to give up all hope.
He ain’t my leader.
Nor is Beevis Newsom (an uncanny resemblance).
Nor that weenie Bill Gates.
Not much comes out of those mouths that’s useful to me.
The J6er’s unjust imprisonment can be a rallying cry that we gather around and bring an end to.
If you want to see that, joining me in making that happen: Tap here https://livingheroes.org
Allan Stevo
Well, you can write them under a pseudonym can't you?
Wonderful piece, Allan.