While the maskless Antifa mob is permitted to riot in the streets of Portland, Oregon, the Democrat tyrants in the state Capitol are planning to make the state mask mandate permanent — for the law-abiding American citizen. How can this be? It’s simple — Antifa is fearless and feared while the law-abiding American Citizen is fearful and compliant. When government fears the people there is liberty and when the people fear the government, there is tyranny. Right now the law-abiding citizen fears the Government, while the mob does not. The Government fears the mob, but not the law-abiding American citizen. It really is that simple.
If we want our freedom back, there is no one standing in the way but for us. Too many of us groan, “What can we do?” The solution is simple — stop complying with the tyrants. The tyrants in Oregon are proposing the permanent mask mandate because they can and because they know the American Citizen is willing to accept their unconstitutional role as servant rather than master. But the Constitution asserts that “we the people” are master, and those in Government servants. Start acting like it. Antifa isn’t complaining, they are rioting.
We don’t need to riot. We just need to leave our masks at home. While Antifa is engaged in uncivil and violent disobedience, we simply need to engage in civil disobedience. Stop complaining and stop complying.
The Founding Fathers were not victims. Our freedom was not won through complaint and compliance, but action and defiance. Their grievances fell on deaf ears and so they risked their lives to secure the fundamental blessings of liberty for themselves and to transmit them to their posterity — that’s you and me. This Nation was not built and preserved by cowards, but by fearless Patriots. Are we such cowards today that we are willing to give up our freedom out of fear of being chastised by the muffled voice of a grocery store clerk or masked citizen slave?
Nor was the Civil Rights Movement waged and won by victims. Prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, black Americans were not permitted to sit down and eat at restaurants in states like Alabama. This practice of segregation was both accepted and “lawful.” Segregation did not come to an end because black Americans complied and complained, but because they objected, marched, and defied the “law.” They organized sit-ins at white restaurants.
The truth is that both fear and bravery are contagious. The act of a fearful American propagates fear in another American. The act of a brave American propagates courage in another American. We need leaders, not followers. As my friend and radio host, Gary Jeff Walker, suggested, it only takes a small handful of Patriots to change the course of history. Rosa Parks started a revolution when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Alabama in 1955. She was one woman.
The reality is that many Americans are fearful followers, but they are also desperate for someone with the courage to step up and lead the way. They are willing to disobey but don’t want to be the first to do so. Millions of Americans wanted to do what Rosa Parks did but didn’t want to be the first to do so. So grab a friend and have the audacity to enter a grocery store without a mask. If Rosa Parks could change the course of history, imagine what ten maskless Americans in a grocery store could do.
We must stop waiting for the Government to give us our freedom. Freedom doesn’t come to those who wait, but those who demand it. More importantly, our freedom is not our Government's to grant or take away. Our Rights are unalienable. If we want to be free, then we have to act free. It’s that simple. The mask mandates will end when Americans stop wearing them. Furthermore, if Antifa can riot without masks in Portland, then the citizens of Oregon can buy toilet paper without wearing them.
Drew Allen is a Texas-bred, California-based conservative author and speaker, who writes a weekly blog promoting conservative ideals at drewthomasallen.com.