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A MOMENTOUS TIME

Rip Parker
3 min readJun 10, 2022

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WITNESSES TO HISTORY BEING MADE

You know what I am about to write as well as I do. We, you and I, are now, in this moment, witnessing the most critical moments in the history of our nation. Yes, including our uncivil war of the nineteenth century. During that war, our Constitutionally based Federal Government remained in tact. Today that very government itself is under attack like never before.

It was the “shoe banging” USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev, who had previously denounced Stalin and negotiated with J. F. Kennedy to end the Cuban missile crisis, avoiding WWIII said, “We will never have to defeat the USA. They will self destruct from within”.

We now are near that point. Will we fulfill the Khrushchev Prophecy? We are now facing that crisis point. Will our nation allow the would be dictator come emperor, Donald Trump and his rabid followers, to destroy our Democratic Republic, or will the currently insufficiently educated voters still undecided about him awaken to the monumental work done by the Select Committee regarding the January 6, 2021, attempted coup to overturn our government and see these seditionists for what they are?

They appear to speak more highly of our arch enemy, Vladimir Putin and Russia, than of our current government. I think it fair to say we have entered Cold War 2.0 with Russia. If so, that justifies naming the seditious conspiritors to be traitors to our nation. The word “traitor” carries more punch due to its familiarity, than the word “seditionist”, while in fact the two are…

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Rip Parker
Rip Parker

Written by Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics

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