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I wanted to relay an experience that some friends of ours had at the rally in D.C. last week. We saw them and spoke with them this evening.
I don't regularly partake in current political discussion on the forums I visit, but since this is my journal spot I will take a minute to make an observation. If you don't agree with or like what I say feel free to go to a different thread. I don't mean that rudely, but there are plenty of other places on BYH and related forums where these things get hashed out repeatedly.
Our friends J and K own a business across the border in Washington state. Their business has been severely impacted by all of the closures, extended closures, and extensions on the extended closures.
When they were told they would have to remain closed an additional period of time they made a quick decision to to attend the rally. They have always wanted to visit the Capitol anyway and tour the historical sites.
Their experience at the actual rally was nothing like what was portrayed on mainstream media. Since I don't watch mainstream media I am relying on what I have heard about what was shown to the American public by people who have watched it.
This is what they actually encountered there. Families. Families with their kids, elderly people in wheelchairs, and walking with canes. Regular working people. Calm pleasant people, most of whom that they had conversations with described themselves as non political, but were there because they were concerned about what they saw happening to our country.
They met a young woman with a 4 month old baby in a front pack, walking with her other young children. Her husband is in the military and deployed. As the crowd walked and stood in the long line to get to the Ellipse they talked to each other. People were calm and orderly.
I'd like to emphasize that.
In order to enter the area where the speeches were taking place they had to go through security and no one was allowed to enter with a backpack. K said there was a mountain of backpacks at the entrance. She thought it was significant that when they came back out they found their backpack in the pile, nobody had been stealing or destroying them.
That's a testament to the type of people in attendance.
They weren't near the front of the pack when the capitol building was entered, but they did hear the flashbangs going off. They had much to say about the general atmosphere, and said that they personally did not see people walking around in helmets, tactical gear, or weird outfits.
Overall they related that there was a definite subdued spirit replacing the one of cautious hope they had witnessed earlier.
The mayor issued an alert that the city was shutting down at 6, so they decided to turn back and go back to their hotel in Alexandria, so they wouldn't get caught without a way to return.
On the Metro ride back they said evrything was calm. They walked the mile back to their hotel on nearly deserted streets because the mayor of Alexandria had issued a curfew because of all the "rioting". There was no rioting going on.
They said most businesses were permanently closed and out of business, but they did find a restaurant that was open. The chairs were all up on the tables and there was no eating in. When J asked the cashier why he said "Because of all the demonstrations". J told him there were no demonstrations, everything was quiet and the cashier said, "order of the mayor!"
Back at their hotel they ate their bagged dinner and tried to warm up. K said there was such an air of oppression in the area that it was palpable.
Our friends are solid people. Not dramatic, just honest folks.
The reason I'm relating this, and I know this is a very long post, is just to get a different perspective of what happened in D.C. last week.
We are lied to constantly, and the ones who have the greatest control of information dissemination are twisting and spinning truth. Truth has taken a beating lately and I don't think any network news can be trusted any longer.
I don't think this is a great job of relating what personal friends of mine told us tonight, but I think it's very important to be suspicious of what the news reports. And why.
I don't regularly partake in current political discussion on the forums I visit, but since this is my journal spot I will take a minute to make an observation. If you don't agree with or like what I say feel free to go to a different thread. I don't mean that rudely, but there are plenty of other places on BYH and related forums where these things get hashed out repeatedly.
Our friends J and K own a business across the border in Washington state. Their business has been severely impacted by all of the closures, extended closures, and extensions on the extended closures.
When they were told they would have to remain closed an additional period of time they made a quick decision to to attend the rally. They have always wanted to visit the Capitol anyway and tour the historical sites.
Their experience at the actual rally was nothing like what was portrayed on mainstream media. Since I don't watch mainstream media I am relying on what I have heard about what was shown to the American public by people who have watched it.
This is what they actually encountered there. Families. Families with their kids, elderly people in wheelchairs, and walking with canes. Regular working people. Calm pleasant people, most of whom that they had conversations with described themselves as non political, but were there because they were concerned about what they saw happening to our country.
They met a young woman with a 4 month old baby in a front pack, walking with her other young children. Her husband is in the military and deployed. As the crowd walked and stood in the long line to get to the Ellipse they talked to each other. People were calm and orderly.
I'd like to emphasize that.
In order to enter the area where the speeches were taking place they had to go through security and no one was allowed to enter with a backpack. K said there was a mountain of backpacks at the entrance. She thought it was significant that when they came back out they found their backpack in the pile, nobody had been stealing or destroying them.
That's a testament to the type of people in attendance.
They weren't near the front of the pack when the capitol building was entered, but they did hear the flashbangs going off. They had much to say about the general atmosphere, and said that they personally did not see people walking around in helmets, tactical gear, or weird outfits.
Overall they related that there was a definite subdued spirit replacing the one of cautious hope they had witnessed earlier.
The mayor issued an alert that the city was shutting down at 6, so they decided to turn back and go back to their hotel in Alexandria, so they wouldn't get caught without a way to return.
On the Metro ride back they said evrything was calm. They walked the mile back to their hotel on nearly deserted streets because the mayor of Alexandria had issued a curfew because of all the "rioting". There was no rioting going on.
They said most businesses were permanently closed and out of business, but they did find a restaurant that was open. The chairs were all up on the tables and there was no eating in. When J asked the cashier why he said "Because of all the demonstrations". J told him there were no demonstrations, everything was quiet and the cashier said, "order of the mayor!"
Back at their hotel they ate their bagged dinner and tried to warm up. K said there was such an air of oppression in the area that it was palpable.
Our friends are solid people. Not dramatic, just honest folks.
The reason I'm relating this, and I know this is a very long post, is just to get a different perspective of what happened in D.C. last week.
We are lied to constantly, and the ones who have the greatest control of information dissemination are twisting and spinning truth. Truth has taken a beating lately and I don't think any network news can be trusted any longer.
I don't think this is a great job of relating what personal friends of mine told us tonight, but I think it's very important to be suspicious of what the news reports. And why.
