Public Notice:
Allegiance Update
Public Notice: Allegiance Update
This notice is issued to correct
a widespread misuse of allegiance.
Allegiance is not owed
to flags repurposed by movements,
to revolutions past,
or to concentrations of ash
among the cinders of destruction.
Allegiance was never intended
to be permanent, blind,
or enforced through fear.
Effective immediately,
allegiance is redirected
to the preservation of life—
all life, sacred or other—
and to the god who showed compassion
for the lowest among us,
who overturned merchant tables
when profit entered sacred halls,
who treated life as holy
without exception.
And to a nation respectful of both.
This announcement affirms:
oppressive systems are subject to dismantling.
Distortions are to be confronted,
books treasured, not burned,
culture celebrated, not erased.
History is to be examined and explained,
not weaponized or distorted.
Be advised:
laws designed to force submission
may also contain
the constitutional and moral ground
for resistance.
If governing bodies refuse to act
with the power entrusted to them,
and instead pursue authoritarian rule,
civic duty does not expire.
It activates.
Notice is hereby given
that the right to bear arms
was not granted for spectacle
or intimidation,
but as defense against tyranny
when civil and moral rights are infringed.
Standing your ground is permitted
when danger is present,
when silence becomes complicity,
when law forgets
who it was written for.
There shall be no kings.
No snake charmers.
No divine exceptions
for the powerful.
Guidance, if it emerges,
must be accountable, plural,
and oriented north—
toward our fathers’ original foundations
before they were bastardized by man,
toward light,
toward knowledge,
capable of setting
us all free.
Please understand,
The era of plausible deniability
has concluded.
Ignorance will no longer be accepted
as mitigation.
Neutrality will no longer be interpreted
as innocence.
The decision before us
is no longer between positions or parties,
but between continuation
and collapse.
This notice has been issued
because silence proved insufficient.
About the Creator
Stacey Mataxis Whitlow (SMW)
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Comments (1)
Wow that was a long train of thought.