Justice now.

A child can't wait ten years to be fed.

A People who march in the streets, asking for freedom, can't wait for someday to arrive.

You can't ask justice to wait for a tyrant who brutalizes their nation and the world to give themselves up.

Time doesn't wait for any of us.

Time doesn't wait for those who are afraid.

Those who have been given the reins of power by us need to check themselves.

They need to check themselves now.

Justice now.

That family was killed by bombs falling. How long will history wait for justice?

That woman was assaulted by a powerful man; how long is she supposed to wait to ask for her attacker to be prosecuted?

How long has it been for some men and women to know they are responsible for despair?

Telling justice to wait is justice denied.

The very act of saying "wait" is a conscious act of tyranny.

That thing, that dark beast we fight with, is the tyranny of men over other men.

Today, I said politics is an amoral belief system.

Politics, at its roots, is sociopathic.

It doesn't care if it does right or wrong; it only believes in what results are effective to win.

To keep power.

But now, here and now, this very moment in time, the nation, the world, is awakening.

The world, through social media, has broken bubbles of isolation.

Those institutions, those isolations that were safe behind their barriers of public relations, of the story they told about themselves, are being revealed as lies.

Lies.

What is being exposed is the amoral positions, the amoral platforms of all of our institutions.

The fact that our institutions are willing to sacrifice you and me so that they can maintain the status quo is the rule by which they live.

In government, there is no Jimmy Stewart, as in the movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, who will stand on their own for justice.

And then the masses, seeing their failing, have a redemptive moment, a come-to-Jesus minute, and rally around Jimmy, proclaiming liberty throughout the land.

That's a sweet story, but it's not reality.

What we see in Washington is the reality.

A bully on one side, daring anyone to step across the line in the sand.

On the other side, a group passes notes to each other condemning the bully, which the bully chews up and spits back.

What is at the heart of this all?

It is simply nihilism.

Nothing matters.

Social media has also revealed that too many of us are not willing to put actions behind where our ideals stand.

We are too willing to let that guy be beaten by a cop.

We are too willing to let that woman be shouted down.

We are too willing to let people be bombed because they're over there.

We are too willing to let the rich steal from the poor.

We are too willing to believe the evil in our ears, telling us that we can't stop it, so why do anything?

Justice now.

This country is built upon the ideal of freedom.

But do people deserve freedom if they are not willing to stand for it?

You simply have to say no!

We, as a people, have to stop being a helicopter parent and grow a spine, be decisive, and tell the children in the White House, "No!"

This problem in Washington with this President is not going to be solved by giving him and his henchmen a time-out.

They are not going to be stopped by taking away their access to their phone.

Grounding them.

Telling them that they need to treat other people better.

The wolf is not stopped by moral principles on a nice letterhead.

Now.

Now is always the right time to do right.

Now, hear the cry; now, feel the despair; now, be the wave that lifts hope.

Justice now.

Peace

Daniel J Frey aka Toby