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WestMichRad

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7. Here is the list of action items from Dr. Pru Lee
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 12:47 PM
Apr 2025

1. Form an independent, civilian-powered investigative coalition.
I’m talking experts. Veterans. Whistleblowers. Journalists. Watchdog orgs.
Deputize the resistance. Build a real-time archive of corruption, overreach, and executive abuse.
Make it public. Make it unshakable.
Let the people drag the rot into the light.
If you can’t hold formal hearings, hold public ones.
If Congress won’t act, let the country act.
This isn’t about optics — it’s about receipts.

Because at some point, these people will be held accountable. And when that day comes, we’ll need every name, every signature, every illegal order, every act of silence documented. You’re not just preserving truth — you’re preparing evidence for prosecution. The more they vanish people and weaponize data, the more we need truth in the sunlight.

2. Join the International Criminal Court.
Yes, I said it. Call their bluff. You cannot control what the other side does. But you can control your own integrity. So prove it. Prove that your party is still grounded in law, human rights, and ethical leadership.

Join.

If you’ve got nothing to hide — join.

Show the world who’s hiding bodies, bribes, and buried bank accounts. Force the GOP to explain why they’d rather protect a war criminal than sign a treaty. And while you’re at it, publicly invite ICC observers into U.S. borders. Make this administration explain — on camera — why they’re terrified of international oversight.

3. Fund state-level resistance infrastructure.
Don’t just send postcards. Send resources.
Channel DNC funds into rapid-response teams, legal defense coalitions, sanctuary networks, and digital security training.
If the federal government is hijacked, build power underneath it.
If the laws become tools of oppression, help people resist them legally, locally, and boldly.

This is not campaign season — this is an authoritarian purge. Stop campaigning. Act like this is the end of democracy, because it is. We WILL REMEMBER the warriors come primaries. Fighting this regime should be your marketing strategy.

And let’s be clear:

The reason the other side always seems three steps ahead is because they ARE.

They prepared for this. They infiltrated school boards, courts, local legislatures, and police unions. They built a machine while you wrote press releases. We’re reacting — they’ve been executing a plan for years.

It’s time to shift from panic to blueprint.

You should already be working with strategists and military minds on PROJECT 2029 — a coordinated, long-term plan to rebuild this country when the smoke clears.
You should be publicly laying out:
• The laws and amendments you’ll pass to ensure this never happens again
• The systems you’ll tear down and the safeguards you’ll enshrine
• The plan to hold perpetrators of human atrocities accountable
• The urgent commitment to immediately bring home those sold into slavery in El Salvador

You say you’re the party of the people? Then show the people the plan.

4. Use your platform to educate the public on rights and resistance tactics.
If they’re going to strip us of rights and lie about it — arm the people with truth. Text campaigns. Mass trainings. Downloadable “Know Your Rights” kits. Multilingual legal guides. Encrypted phone trees.

Give people tools, not soundbites.
We don’t need more slogans.
We need survival manuals.

5. Leverage international media and watchdogs.
Stop hoping U.S. cable news will wake up. They’re too busy playing both sides of fascism. Feed the real stories to BBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Reuters, Der Spiegel — hell, leak them to anonymous dropboxes if you have to. Make what’s happening in America a global scandal. And stop relying on platforms that are actively suppressing truth.

Start leveraging Substack. Use Bluesky. That’s where the resistance is migrating. That’s where censorship hasn’t caught up. If the mainstream won’t carry the truth — outflank them. Get creative. Go underground. Go global.

If our democracy is being dismantled in broad daylight, make sure the whole world sees it — and make sure we’re still able to say it.

6. Create a digital safe haven for whistleblowers and defectors.
Not everyone inside this regime is loyal. Some are scared. Some want out. Build the channels. Encrypted. Anonymous. Protected. Make it easy for the cracks in the system to become gaping holes.

And while you’re at it? Stop ostracizing MAGA defectors. Everyone makes mistakes — even glaring, critical ones. We are not the bullies. We are not the ones filled with hate.
And it is not your job to shame people who finally saw the fire and chose to step out of it.

They will have to deal with that internal struggle — the guilt of putting a very dangerous and callous regime in power. But they’re already outnumbered. Don’t push them back into the crowd.

We don’t need purity. We need numbers. We need people willing to burn their red hats and testify against the machine they helped build.

7. Study the collapse—and the comeback.
You should be learning from South Korea and how they managed their brief rule under dictatorship. They didn’t waste time chasing the one man with absolute immunity. They went after the structure.

The aides. The enforcers. The loyalists. The architects.

They knocked out the foundation one pillar at a time — until the “strongman” had no one left to stand on. And his power crumbled beneath him.

You should be independently investigating every author of Project 2025, every aide who defies court orders, every communications director repeating lies, every policy writer enabling cruelty, every water boy who keeps this engine running.

You can’t stop a regime by asking the king to sit down. You dismantle the throne he’s standing on — one coward at a time.

Stop being scared to fight dirty when the other side is fighting to erase the damn Constitution.
They are threatening to disappear AMERICANS.
A M E R I C A N S.
And your biggest move can’t be another strongly worded email.

We don’t want your urgently fundraising subject lines. We want backbone. We want action. We want to know you’ll stand up before we’re all ordered to sit down — permanently.

We are watching. And I don’t just mean your base. I mean millions of us who see exactly what’s happening.
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(He wrote more urgings to accompany this list that I have omitted.)

You can critique his list (and I think his item on joining the ICC is off base, because only governments can do that), but critiquing his list misses the point: We need to take action, NOW!!

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Why Isn't Anyone Doing Anything? [View all] rustysgurl Apr 2025 OP
What legislation do you think they can pass? EdmondDantes_ Apr 2025 #1
Thank you wryter2000 Apr 2025 #3
Because, we have ZERO power. BlueTsunami2018 Apr 2025 #2
we do have power, and we best increase it and use it. unblock Apr 2025 #5
There is plenty we can do about it. "We have no power" is complete bullshit. And it will lose us our Democracy. Scrivener7 Apr 2025 #9
I mean in Congress. BlueTsunami2018 Apr 2025 #10
Please advise us on what they can do. kerry-is-my-prez Apr 2025 #12
I did. Scrivener7 Apr 2025 #13
I don't have much patience with people attacking Democrats right now. kerry-is-my-prez Apr 2025 #11
I don't have much hope that there will be midterms or another presidential election elocs Apr 2025 #18
Some are saying if Trump runs for a 3 rd term womanofthehills Apr 2025 #23
the letter posted on facebook by dr pru lee has the best recommendations for actual action unblock Apr 2025 #4
November 5th, 2024 NavyDem Apr 2025 #6
As Democrats, too many of us were not vigilant over the past 4 years. As well as complacent elocs Apr 2025 #19
Here is the list of action items from Dr. Pru Lee WestMichRad Apr 2025 #7
Democrats & the Left were not vigilant for these last 4 years. I bet now they wish they had been. n/t elocs Apr 2025 #20
Harvard is fighting back. So are large corporate law firms. Ponietz Apr 2025 #8
Huh? mcar Apr 2025 #14
IKR! 😞 sheshe2 Apr 2025 #27
The only question H2O Man Apr 2025 #15
No. That's not the only question. It's crucial now to demand our Scrivener7 Apr 2025 #16
Well ..... H2O Man Apr 2025 #17
Some do find simple disagreement to be disagreeable. Scrivener7 Apr 2025 #22
And yet H2O Man Apr 2025 #24
A few are out front and vocal. writerJT Apr 2025 #21
They are doing things- town halls, demonstrations and more in their districts Meowmee Apr 2025 #25
The speaker decides what gets put up for a vote drray23 Apr 2025 #26
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