General Discussion

...put troops on the streets of America, kidnapped people off the streets -- citizens and noncitizens alike -- held them in inhumane conditions with no communication with families, lawyers, Red Cross, anyone; destroyed symbolic buildings at the heart of our government; caused food and water shortages; whose mercenaries -- out of uniform and unidentifiable, armed and roaming our streets, demand papers from people going to stores, churches, schools; break windows on cars with families and children in them, yanking parents out and leaving children traumatized; who shoot, kill, beat, and gas people because they feel like it; tap phones and monitor email and social media posts for signs of disloyalty, punishable by mobs and bureaucrats, police and soldiers; compiled databases with personal information, which, accurate or not, can be used for control in the short term, targeting and oppression in the long term....

And all this, within less than a year -- Americans would have declared this to be an attack, a declaration of war. There would be a vigorous resistance, whether futile or not.

The truth is, America has had war declared against it ("her"? do we still say that?). One side has been waging war against everything American, everything we love. The other side, all of us here and in every state, district, and territory, simply haven't awakened to this fact.