Susan Miller

Susan Miller

The Gift of Living in Interesting Times

by Anne Doherty

"May you live in interesting times,” is an expression falsely attributed to an ancient Chinese curse. In fact, it was coined in 1936 by a British statesman in response to the German violation of the treaty at Locarno. Whether the origin of the curse was fake news or not is beside the point. Those words resonate today, just as much as they did on the eve of World War II.

However, I see living in interesting times as more of a gift than a curse because interesting times cause us to live more fully and recognize, if not appreciate, the impact our lives have on others.

As I write, many of us are still hashing over how the anticipated “Red Wave” that was supposed to sweep the country resulted in our just barely gaining control of the House. Explanations range from poor voter turn out in key counties to various levels of Democrat cheating. No doubt the truth varies from state to state and precinct to precinct. Thanks to the Internet, we know too much and too little; we are left with emptiness and doubt.

When I moved to San Francisco more than 20 years ago, I began to recognize carrying the flag for conservative values would be something I would be required to do for the rest of my life if I valued our democratic republic. I saw the Left’s money, power and determination to undermine average people. I tried to warn friends in the rest of the country about some of the things I saw or heard, let alone the destructive, often hateful, designs of powerful people I met in both the Bay Area and Hollywood. My friends didn’t believe me – even my Republican friends.

Today, average Republicans nationwide are finally on the same page. They understand what we are up against, and they are finally stepping up to do something about it. They are running for school board and city council; they are training as poll workers and poll challengers. They actually know the election laws in their state. In short, they understand the impact their lives have on others and see the folly of creating impact through reluctance and ignorance.

Republicans, who have always claimed to value personal responsibility, religious faith, the rule of law and the Constitution, are once again living their values.

And this is something to celebrate – for we do not have faith if we are afraid to stand our ground, and we are not taking responsibility for ourselves, our families or our communities if we turn a blind eye to what’s happening around us. We can only uphold the rule of law if we know the law and if that law makes sense to us, for the law must serve to strengthen our communities rather than tear them down.

Sure, what we’re fighting is complex and confusing. Our enemy has multiple faces: the WEF, China, big tech, big pharma, mainstream media, the entrenched Democrat bureaucracy we call the swamp, and even some of our own elected Republican representatives who gain from the chaos. But our solution is simple and elegant: embrace what we know and defend it.

Whether the solution is homeschooling our kids or running for office, whether it’s talking to our neighbors or writing an op ed, we know that sooner or later destructive, non-sensical woke-ness will bump up against reality and, when it does, our people will be ready with calming common sense and laws worth respecting.

The other thing about interesting times is that they come to an end. The status quo that survives depends on the nature of the conflict itself. Just as little children need boundaries to become moral adults, one could argue that revolutionary forces need boundaries so that they don’t destroy their cause in the process of fighting for it. Society has indeed become more compassionate and open minded since the 60’s; but in trying to make their legacy permanent, leftist idealists now oppose the same free speech and tolerance they once prized.

Republicans are the voice of compassion and reason, and that is also something to celebrate. If we think of history as a kind of pendulum and interesting times as the far reaches of that pendulum before it turns back the other way, we can see that twenty, forty, sixty years from now, Republicans could be the stewards of compassion, reason, faith and law. If we hang in there – the way President Trump, Governor DeSantis and our other shining lights do – we will make our mark on history again, just as we did when Lincoln freed the slaves.

So, being alive today, participating in history as we are, is indeed a gift. It’s a gift to be awake, alive and doing good. It’s a gift we can give to ourselves, to our children, to our neighbors and to generations to come.

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The Awakened Must Rescue the Nation from the Woke

Anne Doherty, Editor at Large

Unless you’re living in a cave, you are no doubt aware of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago and its implications. It’s one thing for Joe Biden to punish his political enemy; it’s another for dozens—if not hundreds—of public servants (and the media) to engage in Stasi tactics. But if you think only President Trump and associates will suffer that kind of abuse, here are examples closer to home.

The Pacific Justice Institute, a legal organization which supports —at no cost—families, religious organizations and businesses, is raising money for two specific jaw-dropping causes—both of which are largely under the radar of Californians and the rest of the country. PJI opposed California SB107, a bill amended by renowned gay activist and California senator Scott Wiener. This bill encourages troubled parents who lose custody in conservative states like Texas to take the child, in violation of court orders, and fly to California. And, if a child runs to California in search of “gender affirming healthcare”, California will not send the child back to the parents and will provide the “care.” Here’s one section of the bill’s text: 

The bill would prohibit the enforcement of an order based on another state’s law authorizing a child to be removed from their parent or guardian based on that parent or guardian allowing their child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care. The bill would prohibit a court from finding that it is an inconvenient forum where the law or policy of another state that may take jurisdiction limits the ability of a parent to obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care, as defined, and the provision of such care is at issue in the case before the court. The bill would authorize a court to take temporary jurisdiction because a child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care. The bill would additionally prohibit a court from considering the taking or retention of a child from a person who has legal custody of the child, if the taking or retention was for obtaining gender-affirming health care or mental health care. 

I include the text to demonstrate how many rights the bill violates: parents have no rights and states have no authority, only California. Since all states must agree with California law or California will keep their children, there are no states’ rights. Most importantly, California is encouraging children not old enough to vote or drink—vulnerable children whose brains are not done growing—to mutilate their bodies and take hormones without thought to their future mental or physical health.

The second matter from Pacific Justice Institute involves the California Child Care Act, in which “almost every preschool in California, including daycare ministries in churches [is] to be defined as a daycare center.” Once defined, “the church ministry is subject to state regulation—a host of restrictive protocols and woke rules by the department of social services.” “Basically, to run a daycare ministry in California, a church has to forfeit First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Fourteenth Amendment rights.” 

So, say goodbye to required participation in prayer. Hello unlawful search and seizure when state authorities enter unannounced. The state can interview children without parental consent and employees without reading them their Miranda rights. Churches also lose the right to a trial by jury and the right to face their accuser.

Notice how Constitutional rights get stripped away in thin slices within obscure laws that the conspiratorial media never reports to the public. Even if reported, recent generations with little education about the Constitution don’t know what rights they have that are being lost. Anyone unaware they are in conflict with this new system will get blindsided. 

On a personal front, a few days ago a friend, who describes herself as a “letter writer,” had just dashed off complaints to Joe Biden and the DOJ re: the Mar-a-Lago raid. Not 48 hours later, and 24 hours after the IRS announced hiring 87,000 new employees, she heard a knock on her door. Three IRS employees demanded to see her husband, who wasn’t home. The couple had not received a letter, nor a call, announcing the IRS visit, and it took three requests to get them to show ID. My friend handled it brilliantly, requesting they make an appointment first with their accountant and then with the couple. But the point is the IRS were clearly harassing them, and most likely because of their views. 

If it wasn’t clear before, we’re in a cold civil war, and our side must win. To paraphrase Winston Churchill’s “Fight on the Beaches” speech: We shall and must go onto the end; we shall fight at the polls; we shall fight in the churches; we shall fight in the daycare centers, schools and schools boards. We shall fight in the courts and push back on social media. We shall wake up our family, friends and neighbors, until, in God’s good time, the awakened step forth to rescue the nation from the woke.

https://pacificjustice.org/

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