By Harold Pease Ph. D.
We are at war as serious and real as any in our history with real casualties fighting to keep our liberty. Everything is politicized and aimed at capturing your mind often with narratives or ideas that may have no truth in them. I have lectured and published on keeping our freedom for over fifty years. This war is real and dangerous. It may have deceived you. Sometimes someone else says it better. This time it is Ken Blackwell, a nationally syndicated columnist. I had to go through at least 100 pro ‘No Kings’ protest propaganda Deep State sources on Google to get this one article giving the other side. Exclusion is censorship. Blackwell’s arguments were suppressed, that is why I am sharing him on my site to give you access. What he shares resonates. Much of what follows is from him. He titles his comments, “No Kings Explained for People Who Think They’re Fighting Fascism.”
“Three billion dollars in revenue. Pre-printed signs stacked and shipped before you even knew what you were supposed to be mad about. That is not a spontaneous uprising. That is infrastructure. That is planning. That is money. That is message discipline. And that is what you walked into on Saturday [March 28, 2026]. You looked around, saw the crowd, saw the slogans, felt the energy, and told yourself this was democracy. ‘No Kings.’ It sounded clean. It sounded righteous. It felt like you were part of something organic. But the signs were ready before your outrage was. That should bother you.” Did it?
“Because you are not living under a king. You are living in a constitutional republic with elections, term limits, and a press that has spent years attacking the most powerful figures in the country without consequence. No one is being arrested for calling a president a fascist. No one is being silenced for dissenting. That is not tyranny. And yet you are being told it is. You are being trained to see normal functions of a country as authoritarian. Loving your country becomes suspicious. Wanting a secure border becomes immoral. Believing parents should have a say in their children’s lives becomes dangerous. Asking basic questions about elections becomes taboo. That is not clarity. That is conditioning. Every country on Earth enforces its borders. Most require identification to vote. That is not controversial anywhere else. It is only controversial here because you have been told it should be. And you believed it.
“Meanwhile, look at the people who actually hold power and how long they have held it: Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin. Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao. Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon. Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII. Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini. Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler’s entire reign. That is what entrenched power looks like. Decades. Not months. Not a single term. Decades.
“But you are told the threat to democracy is the outsider who disrupted that system for a brief window of time. You are told he is the king. No. What you are reacting to is not monarchy. It is loss of control. You do not hate kings. You hate kings that are not yours. Because when power consolidates on your side, you justify it….
“Three days before you marched, lawmakers aligned with your movement rejected voter identification requirements. At the same time, you lived through a period where you had to show documentation to participate in basic parts of life. You needed proof to eat, to travel, to work. But asking for proof to vote is suddenly oppression. That contradiction should stop you cold.” Did it?
Blackwell continues, “Look at how power is actually maintained. Non-citizens are counted in the census. Census numbers determine representation. Representation determines power. Remove verification, expand the count, and you increase influence without ever needing a crown. That is how modern systems entrench themselves. Then look at speech. There is written evidence of government officials pressuring platforms like Facebook to suppress information. Not just misinformation. Information that later proved to be accurate. [During COVID] scientists were sidelined. Doctors were ignored. Even humor and satire were targeted. Humor. When people in power are deciding which jokes are allowed, you are not dealing with a healthy system. That control did not come through loud decrees. It came through quiet coordination with corporations that act as extensions of political authority. That is far more effective than any throne….
“Then there is the selective enforcement of rules. During lockdowns, small businesses were shut down. Churches were closed. Families were kept from their loved ones in their final moments. At the same time, large scale unrest that caused billions in damage and cost lives was treated as justified or even necessary. One standard for one group. A completely different standard for another. That is not equal application of law. That is power deciding what counts. And when it comes to political violence, the conversation is selective….
“Look at who you marched alongside. Organizations like the Party for Socialism and Liberation were not hiding. They were present, organized, and clear about their goal: revolution, not reform. That ideology has already been tested in the real world. It does not produce freedom. It produces control….And yet they had signs ready for you. Hundreds of groups. Billions in funding. A coordinated message. And money that traces back to figures like Neville Roy Singham, a billionaire operating out of Shanghai with ties to networks aligned with the Chinese Communist Party. You thought you were fighting for democracy. You were participating in something far more organized than you realized….
“So when you chant about kings, understand what you are actually defending and what you are actually ignoring…. You marched against kings. But what you are actually enabling is a system that does not need a crown to control you. And the most dangerous part is that you think you are fighting for freedom…” The truth behind No Kings protests: were you deceived? Walk away!! Two more are scheduled before elections. Don’t go!
Thanks Ken Blackwell for the censored side.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read more of his weekly columns @ www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #869
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