Many of us are battling for peace on a daily basis -- peace for our loved ones, peace for our neighbors, peace for our nation, peace for people beyond our shores.
Events in Israel this week, as well as in Ukraine in 2022, have reminded us that aggressors seek to take the innocent by surprise. Under cover of nightfall, or under the guise of "military exercises," extremists and totalitarians press their advantage.
The results for peace-loving people are heart-breaking, upending, and ruinous.
Yet it is almost impossible to protect people who cannot see the danger at hand.
Edmund de Waal's beautiful book, The Hare with Amber Eyes explains in excruciating detail how the Jewish residents of Vienna in 1938 had two to three days in which to correctly assess the Nazi threat amassing on the Austrian border and so to flee with their lives.
Almost no one did so.
Why not? For the same reason many residents of Eastern Ukraine did not leave their homes when Russian troops were amassing on the border in the name of military exercises in February of 2022. They were peaceable people who hoped for the peaceable intentions of others.
History disappointed them.
How are Americans to view the FBI's perpetration of knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting in the context of larger historical patterns?
What does it typically mean when a federal law enforcement agency begins to lie about certain members of the law-abiding public?
It typically means there is a risk of mass atrocities being committed by a combination of police and military forces, working in tandem.
At some point, there are mass arrests, "disappearances," rumors of torture, mass "deportations" and -- although generally perpetrated out of view -- executions.
Many people are never seen or heard from again.
And all of this is justified with files of falsified law enforcement reporting within organizations like the FBI -- where those with totalitarian leanings like to reassure themselves of their "just and appropriate" actions against innocents by astonishingly meticulous record-keeping.
Note that none of these records are intended for public access, however, and statues such as the Freedom of Information Act are be scrupulously ignored by corrupt law enforcement entities so that their abuse of power may continue unabated.
Simply put, widespread falsified law enforcement reporting in any society typically serves as the prelude, accompaniment, and coda to mass atrocities perpetrated against innocents.
Yet, as with Israel, Ukraine and Austria, it is impossible to protect people who cannot see the danger at hand.
The vast majority of Americans do not currently know about the FBI's perpetration of false reporting and affiliated harms against the law-abiding public, and it's fair to say that most global citizens whose countries' security agencies have taken the FBI's lead on falsified reporting do not know about these developments either.
The scheme is concealed, by its very nature, under claims of "secrecy in the national security interest."
In other words, the crimes of the far right within the FBI and affiliated agencies is top secret. If you find out about these crimes, you are likely to be deemed a threat to the FBI's nearly unlimited exercise of power over the law-abiding electorate. After that, life will become very difficult, indeed.
This morning, I happened to have a conversation with my husband regarding our political donations this year. My husband grew up in a blue collar family. His father, who worked in the Dunlop tire factory, did not have the income with which to donate to political campaigns. So, when he asked me whether our donations were excessive, I answered him in this way:
I mean it when I say that, had the far right candidate for President been elected in 2020, I would not be alive right now. And what I mean by that is simply that the far right's scheme of falsified law enforcement reporting would have had disastrous results for all "targets of interest," through no fault of the law-abiding American public.
I see our political contributions as having been a defense of my civil liberties and human rights, along with the civil liberties and human rights of many, many others. If I could give more, I would give more. This matter is critical for the future of democracy the world over. These limits are low, in my opinion. The stakes for humanity, by contrast, are stunningly high.
Autocracy is no one's "bargain," and certainly not for those of us who love freedom.
From my perspective, supporting President Biden as our present and future Commander in Chief should be the top priority for all who understand the true nature of this battle for peace.
Autocracy is not a far-off precept in the pages of George Orwell's master work 1984; rather it is a clear and pressing threat to all of the freedoms the Constitution so carefully delineates for us.
The far right is not a club, an entertainment network or a sports team.
The far right is fascism.
Look up the definition of fascism and you will find that fascists require domestic enemies whom they target, persecute, torture and harm. This is not merely an option within fascists' governing alternatives. This is required. They rule through fear, and a certain number of people must suffer and die unjustly in order to tighten the authoritarian grip.
A true illumination of the FBI's crimes toward the law-abiding American public would reveal the manner in which fascist inroads have been made within the United States under color of law.
President Biden understands the true objectives of the far right, and he is attempting to do everything he can to warn the public to resist its allure.
Yet, they are not yet listening.
A substantive portion of the American public views the Republican party as "home," and they cannot imagine abandoning that affiliation.
Yet political parties are not sports teams, as I have said. Political parties can be overtaken by gangsters and lawmen, indistinguishable from one another at certain times, and the public must remain ever vigilant over this possibility.
If they fail, Americans will perish at the hands of a wayward far right, and in substantive numbers.
The means by which the far right has planned this usurpation of American governance must be illuminated for everyone. Not in five years. Not in 2025. Right now.
Why do I feel this sense of urgency?
Because the worst of the far right's crimes have not yet become manifest in full force across the entire breadth of the American public, nor have they been mirrored in full by other nations. There is still time in which to wake the sleeping heroes among those who love democracy from across the political spectrum. There is still time to explain to them why their integrity matters more to the nation than the bumper sticker on their car, why their honor matters more to the country than the news station they watch on television, why their goodness matters more to the democracy than their cousin's MAGA baseball cap.
To be clear, the Republican party did not originate this root of fascism. The three-letter agencies did. But those agencies have co-opted the Republican Party as their cover for a fascist takeover of the governance of our nation. They have borrowed the Republican Party as their mask.
It's up to us to remove that mask. Far right factions of our three-letter agencies should not be tricking-or-treating the American public into fear, dismay, and alarm. Nor should they be directing predation of the law-abiding citizens of other countries, in support of their own far right political movements.Yet, that is exactly what they have done.
When the American public is made aware of these criminal acts, I guarantee you, they will object, they will protest, and they will vote for the Presidential candidate who has heroically sounded the call to democracy's defense.
That's President Joseph Robinette Biden.
He is the leader engaged in the battle for our peace, for our civil liberties, for our human rights, and for our sovereignty as members of the electorate.
And that is a battle we must together win.
Lane MacWilliams
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