Maybe the new house can subpoena people and have public hearings. Maybe the states will prosecute.
Rosenstein being removed was called a trigger point for a reason. I'll be at today's 5pm protests and future ones. There is likely one near most people. Here's where to find out
[link:http://act.moveon.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response/search/?akid=.37597971.MscvEB|]
I'd rather be called an alarmist than have to looke back and regret not doing what I could. From
They Thought They Were Free
"But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Informal groups become smaller; attendance drops off in little organizations, and the organizations themselves wither. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.
"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
[link:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html|]
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