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On Liberty in Minnesota -- Robert Arnold
I tried to find a key "tagline" and excerpt but every word is essential. My inadequate excerpt below for those who don't have 5 minutes to listen.
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So the streets of Minnesota are not a historical reenactment. They are not theater; they are not cosplay. They are the living continuation of the American experiment -- the moment the citizens look at the machinery of the state and say, "This is not who we are. This is not what liberty looks like."
And this will not be done quietly.
The American revolution was not tidy. It was loud, and frightening, and unresolved. It was fueled by grief and anger and love for something that was unfinished. It was carried forward by people who did not know how it would end. They only knew that obedience would be surrendering something sacred.
That same uncertainty lives in the protestors now. In the people who stand in cold rain and darkness. In the people who march, not because it's easy or popular, but because silence has become impossible.
And that's not extremism, that's citizenship.
Because liberty is messy. Freedom is messy. They both demand conflict. They demand courage. They demand you defend the rights of those you most strongly disagree with the same ferocity you would defend your own.
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So the streets of Minnesota are not a historical reenactment. They are not theater; they are not cosplay. They are the living continuation of the American experiment -- the moment the citizens look at the machinery of the state and say, "This is not who we are. This is not what liberty looks like."
And this will not be done quietly.
The American revolution was not tidy. It was loud, and frightening, and unresolved. It was fueled by grief and anger and love for something that was unfinished. It was carried forward by people who did not know how it would end. They only knew that obedience would be surrendering something sacred.
That same uncertainty lives in the protestors now. In the people who stand in cold rain and darkness. In the people who march, not because it's easy or popular, but because silence has become impossible.
And that's not extremism, that's citizenship.
Because liberty is messy. Freedom is messy. They both demand conflict. They demand courage. They demand you defend the rights of those you most strongly disagree with the same ferocity you would defend your own.
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Let us not go gentle... 
