The Stand. The Stand is a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel written by American author Stephen King and first published in 1978 by Doubleday. The plot centers on a pandemic of a weaponized strain of influenza that kills almost the entire world population. The Stand tells the tale of a post-apocalyptic world in which the survivors must rebuild society from the ground up. One group coalesces around an elderly female prophet, while another rallies to the cause of a totalitarian leader named Randall Flagg.
So, we are told a double coincidence, a rare moment in time, reminiscent of the dirty days of our racist past; two BLACK MEN found hanging from trees. Immediately, we are told to assume nothing but suicide, but that is the fairy tale told, once upon a time, when the white princess was rescued by the white prince, and they all lived happily ever after. BLACK LIVES MATTER, now, Jim Crow Laws were to have been erased, (which insisted BLACK LIVES could matter as long as they were segregated and separate) but somehow, in the midst of the chaos which had been boiling over the cauldron of “ignorance is bliss,” NOW flowing like lava from a mighty eruption, under the current stewardship of a Fascist Regime, for me COINCIDENCES are irrelevant excuses for truth and dereliction of duty by society! Two men of color BLACK hanging from the limbs of a tree, with the rope wrapped around their neck, is not a coincidence for me but a LYNCHING!
Protests, some containing the burning anger, the tortured strains of having been victim to police, whose force’s, have become militarized and worshipped (as their duty and the justification for all good people to identify the bad people, and permit these POLICE DEPARTMENTS to use their discretion, not law or order, or rule or regulation,) and single-handedly discriminate and decimate any bit of humanity as the only means to an end. And now, given permission by Trump, since the moment he announced at Charlottesville that there are Good People, who carry weapons of war, or signs of the Nazi Empire, or paraphernalia draped in the glory of the Confederacy (an enemy nation); self-described Sovereign Citizens, or White Nationalists or KKK, or Armed Militias have joined, not to protest, but to first intimidate the protestor, and if necessary just kill them!
We have already watched Steven Carrillo who had an armored vest and slogans written in his own blood that linked him to the "boogaloo" extremist movement, gun down an officer, at a federal Courthouse, Vigilantes have started the violence that led to a shooting in New Mexico during a demonstration on Monday, authorities said, and the governor is vowing to hold the "instigators" fully accountable. Vigilantes — some carrying baseball bats and metal poles — surrounded the Christopher Columbus statue in South Philadelphia over the weekend and again on Monday, saying they were guarding it. Nevertheless, groups of right-wing gun-lovers have been standing on guard against a made-up invasion in recent weeks, amid unproven claims from the White House that protest-related looting is the work of Antifa, rather than opportunistic protesters. U.S. President Donald Trump has even attempted to label Antifa as a terrorist organization — although it’s much closer to an unorganized movement of far-left individuals.
Good OR Bad/Right OR Wrong/ Lawful OR Disregard the Law/My Way OR No Way. How many cracks can a nation endure before it no longer remains intact?
