Here you are, sitting at home on a nice late summer evening, and agents from your state law enforcement show up at your door asking you about your signature on a ballot petition with a folder containing pages of your personal information. Can’t happen here, you say, but in Florida over the past several weeks it’s been happening – lots.
Talk about Big Brother! Not only does this so-called fraud unit show up with your name on the petition, but shares the fact that they have all other kinds of information about you. De Santis is desperate to destroy the abortion initiative eliminating the 6-week ban and restoring the earlier 15-week ban. Today abortion care; tomorrow, what else?
DeSantis claims fraud. PCI, the company hired to collect the signatures has been doing this work in Florida since 1998. Only this year he went after the company because of the issue. There’s an eight-letter euphemism for what DeSantis claims. If you can do this now, just imagine how the thought police will act in accordance with Project 2025.
Prayer for the Day
God of justice, who created us all as your children,
You gave us eyes to see and ears to hear;
Your Spirit calls us from our history in our time,
And we struggle to find your guidance in our daily decisions.
Move us from our failure of ourselves and of you,
So we are able to speak your truth to the world around us.
In the name of the One who guides us,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
If surveillance, censorship, and propaganda are the three pillars of authoritarianism, information, organization, and leverage are the counter pillars of citizen power.
Zeynep Tufecki, Turkish-American sociologist, Princeton University
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw, playwright, writer (1856-1950)
Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak;
They have to be carried, for they cannot walk,
Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, nor is it in them to do good.
Jeremiah 10: 5