What about the right-wing agenda on the ballot this fall supports people’s right to live free?
What is free about restricting which books children can read or what educators can teach? Soon, your access to books and information will be restricted. What is free about restricting the right of a woman to terminate a pregnancy if she can’t support the child, she has been raped or her life is in danger? Soon, your right to use birth control, choose whom you marry or embrace your child’s sexual orientation will be restricted.
What is free about restricting who can immigrate to the United States based on their skin color or religious beliefs? Soon, members of your ethnic or religious group will fall out of favor and be restricted from entering.
What is free about restricting voting rights and access to the polls? Soon, someone will be showing up at your door with a gun and a ballot forcing you to “vote” in a sham “election” (as recently happened in Russia). What is free about losers in free and fair elections challenging and discounting opposition votes based on nothing but their sense of grievance? Soon, your vote will be discounted.
What is free about allowing a mentally ill or hate-filled person to buy an AK-47, walk into a school or grocery store and open fire on everyone there? Soon, someone like that will invade your community.
If freedom means having white “Christian” men with guns telling us what we can and cannot do with our bodies, what we can and cannot believe about God, what we can and cannot read or learn or say via the ballot box, maybe death isn’t such a bad alternative.
Your vote this November is crucial. Vote for freedom.
Barbara Jatkola
Jaffrey