Who is the enemy? What is the crime? Who are the criminals?

Angry, justifiably aggrieved people of the United States of America, peacefully demonstrating their struggle for equal rights to jobs, housing, food and medical care. Are they the enemy?

Sold-out politicians, corrupt government officials, and those hired by corporate elites to “protect public buildings” — meanwhile suppressing the mass of everyday people as they protest their disenfranchisement — are they the enemy?

Common people are literally sick, and we’re also tired of waiting for the just appropriation of our hard-earned, unequally-collected tax dollars to be used for what they were intended: housing, jobs, food, education, and medical care!

Peacefully demonstrating for these inalienable rights, U.S. citizens are being cruelly and painfully tortured, injured, murdered and disappeared by armed troops — paid for with our very own hard-earned, hard-to-part-with tax dollars! This, then, is the crime.

Are those lighting fires, beating up reporters and defacing buildings being individually pursued and apprehended by police? Prosecuted? If so, it’s not in the papers! We don’t know who the criminals are. Why is this? Why are peaceful demonstrators being blamed, attacked, and gassed when they are not at fault? Why are police not arresting the perpetrators?

How does a populace prepare for what looks like a military coup?

Alea Waters
PORT TOWNSEND