It's almost time for the next No Kings Day, Saturday March 28. I wouldn't miss it. I hope you can participate too. Not that what we have is a King. Kings can be benevolent, wise, concerned for the good the their country. But not dictators, or the Mad King, the wannabe tyrant.
We are at the coast and will be for No Kings. I will attend in the neighboring Town of Beaufort, on the Newport River alongside Beaufort Inlet. Being here changes one's perspective. Vastness does that, doesn't it? Far horizons, dark skies, eternity all around. Go outside any night and look up. It's a comfort, like an embrace. A feeling we need these days.
From time to time I read Robert Reich on Substack. Professor, political commentator, and former Secretary of Labor, Reich reminds us that tyranny cannot succeed where people refuse to submit to it. And that's what we're doing, day-by-day and each time a No Kings comes around--refusing to submit. We rally, we find joy in knowing that we are millions.
We gather to show that our communities won't submit to a police state. We won't tolerate anyone who protects pedophiles. Or tolerate arrest without due process. We gather because the opening words of our Constitution's Preamble are "We the People," not "I the President." We gather so that those who follow Mr. Wannabe become more worried about losing our support than his.
We gather out of respect. If we are people of faith, we gather because our faith asks that of us. If we are Christian, we honor one king only, our Heavenly King of Kings and Lord of Lords: the One who keeps His promises, who asks those who need help to approach boldly, who changes not. The Heavenly King who every spring sacrifices that we might be saved. Our resistance says, "You may be a greedy billionaire who thinks to rule by fear. Not me, not my neighbor, not today, not ever."
I ask God to help and guide me. In Peace, Nina Naomi
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