re: #206 Blind Frog Belly White

The problem is, if both of those don’t work, we’re into a whole different situation which will require much more drastic fixes. Talking about those much more drastic fixes at this point is easily portrayed as violent extremism.

I’m not even worrying about that right now. I’m not opposed to having plans about violence, but those plans would basically be “Here’s how to notify your next-of-kin that you’ve been killed.”

On the assumption that our plans to Fix America Through Marching will fail, we need to be making serious plans on how to protect vulnerable populations when the institutions that would normally be taking care of that may be working to endanger them. We need to be making plans on how to get people out of this country and into safe countries, or into safe locations where they can be moved to safe countries eventually. We need to be making plans on how we’re going to get activists, scientists, artists, regime critics to safety. We need to be making plans on how we’ll be able to communicate.

Everyone is making plans for how we’re going to win, and winning is no longer guaranteed. We need to make contingency plans, and no one’s doing that.