Kool Aid and COVID-19. What do they have in common.
The people in Guyana who were followers of Jim Jones had a better chance of living after Jim Jones had his trusted Lieutenants begin to serve them a poisoned concoction because he saw that his rule as head of the group was coming to an end than the people residing in the United States have after Donald Trump put out his order for the COVID-19 virus to be met head on with HERD IMMUNITY.
Trump is out in front having gatherings which will do the maximum at spreading the virus quickly around the country and he has many people working with him to achieve his goal. As did Jim Jones. It is time for “head in the sand” people to take their heads out of the sand and look around.
Rather than face life without the power and control he had experienced as head of this group, Jones had them all killed and his chief lieutenants obliged and carried out his wishes. Donald Trump has done the same thing using the Coronavirus and his chief lieutenants are following his orders.
What are you going to do about this? Wait to die? We, at Bettina Network, inc. are clearly being harassed. We have been experiencing much harassment. After this blog I expect there will be more. We survived being out there during the 1960’s fighting for civil rights. We were out there in the middle of the women’s movement in the late 1960’s through the 1970’s. We have been out there fighting for equal rights for everyone because that is how we were raised.
Today, our telephone constantly rings and there is no one on the other side. The last call was from “Nicholas Gary 1-813 289 8225. at 9:50pm. When you dial that number an interrupt signal comes on and the recorded voice says – “this number has been disconnected.” That is a common response from the telephone calls with no one on the other side we have been receiving for months. Minutes before that the call came from 617 691 2429. The recording said “the number you have reached has been changed. Please make a note of the new number and there then happens a busy signal.
Minutes after that a call came from “Blue Ox Bistro” 215 728 9440 with a long recorded message ending with a busy signal. 714 942 9957 with a message that says “we have determined that you are a scammer. If our info is wrong you may email us at info@ scammer blaster.1” and it goes on and on with calls every few minutes.
We are not the only people being harassed and threatened – and now it goes across the country threatening everyone. Don’t you think it is time to put a stop to this? Pelosi? Schumer? and the rest of you? What will it take to remove this man from office and move him to some safe place where he will not be able to do harm to the citizens of the United States? With his announcement that there would be no COVID relief bill until after the election when he is re-elected – how much more is needed to remove him along with his lieutenants from office?
Mark Meadows looks and acts very much like Jim Jones’ chief lieutenant during the Guyana event. How much more is needed to act? We had no thought that we would be in such a place to say such things, our Harvard Business School education put us in line for great things – or so we thought.
However, these are crucial times and friends, family and colleagues are dying because of Donald Trump. We have had a “thug” in office as President of these United States. His grandfather was the first to come to this country and he made a substantial living on the backs of women who he used as prostitutes and built a bordello. His son, Donald Trump’s father, made a substantial living partnering with someone who many claimed to be Italian Mafia. Together they succeeded wildly and made it possible for Trump to become president.
Trump himself sent out the dog whistle to all of those who could not face life without being “better than” and that dog whistle got him elected. There are still those who see themselves as supporters of the one they claim has been sent by Hitler to restore the Nazi empire and we sit and wait.
How long, O Lord, are we going to sit and wait for the powers of evil to do their worse while we keep our hands clean to be able to wait until others do the dirty work and we can then come out of hiding breathing a sigh of relief? That is how it has ever been – would it be so beautiful a world if that could/would change?
We were raised with the belief that “I am my brothers’ keeper.” We sang that hymn – “Send me”. Were those only words to feel good by or words to live by? Martin Luther King, Jr. stepped out and with him were a number of people, but not as many as claimed to be there when the air cleared and he was declared one of our heroes. His army of supporters at that point, after he was long dead, multiplied by the millions, still doing nothing, but laying claim to being a part of his sacrifice.
When will that attitude change. We have caused many wars and much suffering for generations. We fled the “old country” for freedom in the new and we simply put in place to live by what we fled from.
If ever there was a time to stand and be counted – this is it.
Where were you when the United States was being destroyed by its “democratically elected” president? Were you on the front line? Or were you cowering behind waiting for others to clear the path so you could join them at the victory party as though you had been there all along!
With this White House declaring its way to go is through “Herd Immunity” it is time to stop sidelining and it is time for you to join those on the front lines. What can you do? What do you have to give? How are you going to protect your family from such a threat? Is your need to be better than – which you hide under all kinds of deflecting rhetoric – worth this?
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