It is time to stand up, speak up, sit down, and shut up!

It is time to stand up, speak up, sit down, and shut up!
By Lee Hemen
August 16, 2022

When I was younger, I was taught in a speech class to stand up, speak up, sit down, and shut up. It was a simple way to relate that we should know what we were going to speak on before we stood in front of the class to do so. Also, it showed that speech is important, and that freedom should not be taken lightly.

I find it extremely interesting that for decades the left screamed that rascally Republicans would use their power to make America into a police state, and yet we see the exact opposite happening. It is the Socialist left that has used the FBI as a secret police force against anyone who is against the left and its ideologies. From parents to protestors, we find average Americans marked as “enemies” of the state.

Now we find that the left is not ashamed to empower another branch of government under their control to be used as a means to strike fear and abuse the American people, the IRS. Doubling its size and arming them to instill fear into the American citizen is the desire of Democrats.

I remember as a child how my parents feared the IRS because they could come into your home, for any reason they deemed necessary, and confiscate anything they desired, including your furniture, clothes, child’s toys, and the food in your cupboards. We knew of several families who lost their homes and had to fight the IRS in court to try and get them returned only to be financially ruined. Later, after winning, they never got back anywhere near what the IRS took from them. Republicans and freedom loving conservative took the fear of the IRS from the average citizen and now Democrats have armed them again as their shock troops. This should cause great concern for any freedom loving American because the IRS can audit you for any reason and you have to prove beyond their doubt that you have nothing to hide.

Democrats turned a blind eye to the far-left riots of ANTIFA, mobs, crime ridden cities they have had control of for decades and encouraged lockdowns where your family could not even go to a park, restricted your child’s education and reprogrammed them to hate you, America, and love perversion. Now they are going after churches and Christians by vilifying their faith.

No freedom loving American of any political persuasion can sit back and think this is a good thing that is occurring. Freedom of speech is a basic right of the individual to say anything they desire even if you personally do not agree to it or like it. The free exchange of ideas is the only way that the truth can expose a lie. We have seen climate religious fanatics silence anyone who disagrees even when the actual science proves them wrong. We have watched as parents, Christians, and others are silenced by the mob because they do not agree in programming children into thinking they are not the sex they are.

It is time to stand up and vote them out. It is time to speak up loudly. It is time to regain the pulpit of free speech before it is taken away and we are living in silent fear. Perhaps it is time to stand up, speak up, sit down, and shut up or lose our freedoms.
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