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Have you ever lived under a dictatorship? I have [1]

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Date: 2025-04-15

Despite the executive orders, the retributions, the bullying of institutions, most of you refuse to understand what’s at stake here, the only thing that seems to be concerning most of you is the state of the economy (your wallets).

Being poor is nothing compared to having your rights stripped away. And I do hope you come to your senses before it’s too late. (I am not going to repeat most, some, etc… just take it for granted that’s what I mean when I say you).

Two of my uncles were killed by a dictator and 70% of my family exiled. And don’t tell me it can’t happen “here” when people are being grabbed off the streets and sent to death camps, you didn’t think that could happen either.

I know women who were raped by “soldiers and officers”, if a person allied with the dictator decides he wants you, there isn’t much you can do, unless you want to be killed, deported, or worse someone in your family pays the price in blood. Some parents hid their female child for years from everyone, hiding them under beds when visitors came.

If you have items in your house that are on that ban list, like books or artifacts, believe me you too can be grabbed for being a terrorist and deported. Pretty soon, the only religious symbols you’ll be able to show are crosses and the bible.

Your children can be sent to conversion camps if they are deemed to effeminate or tomboyish even if they are neither gay nor a trans child. Read the room. You can be jailed for having encouraged these “traits” in your child.

You will have to watch your language if more free speech is taken away (look at what they are doing to universities) you will be turned in by your neighbors, friends, families, coworkers when they are angry and want revenge. Hell this can happen even if you follow the party line after all it’s about revenge not truth.

You think this is only going to affect minorities? No, it will affect anyone who doesn’t conform, period. Even those rich guys sucking up to the regime right now for favors will feel its wrath if they make an off color joke. Whole families disappeared because someone made a joke.

You can lose your jobs if someone’s nephew, lover, pal, buddy, sister, niece, aunt, child etc… wants your job. Your disability checks and any funds your receive can be cut because you offended the wrong person and you won’t even know who you offended.

You won’t be able to find a lawyer to defend you, a media to tell your story, not even an influencer on social media, for examples will be made of them too. No one will donate to your GoFundMe’s less it be traced back to them.

The more unchecked power grows, the more it takes, the more brutal it becomes, the more anything you do or say can be used against you, and as stated even if you did nothing to offend the regime someone can point the finger at you!

All it seems you can think about is money and oh yeah we might not be able to vote… but believe me these are nothing compared to the real dangers you are refusing to face. There’s a reason the phrase liberty or death was coined.

So, keep dragging your feet awaiting your heroes and saviors, protecting your job and income with the last breath of your dying rights and see how far that gets you. Once your freedom is taken away it really doesn’t matter if you are poor, rich or in between, for money is only of use to those in power and all the money in the world cannot replace your freedoms.

#ThePoet

Muriel Vieux – April 15th, 2025, ©All rights reserved

paypal.me/murielvieux if you can spare a few $ to help Haitians

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