April 5

 What initially struck me at Saturday's "Hands Off" protest was the amount of old people participating, particularly, senior women.  These were women of no style that came to speak up about the state of our country under this regime.  They are the "what the fuck are you gonna do to me" crowd.  Have to be proud of these women.  I was inspired standing amongst them. 

I wrote to my cousin Bela in Debecen Hungary about the event and sent him so photos from the Ferndale rally.  He replied today.  This is what he said in reply:.

Hi Jerry, I’m proud of you! We’ve been living in this autocracy for a decade and nothing seems to be strong enough to stop it. Our PM owns the media, feeding undereducated people’s minds with propaganda. If you go to the streets, there’s a law created the following day to ban such demonstration. Freedom of assembly, freedom of speech are seriously confined. I hope you show other nations what democracy is about.

I felt compelled to talk about this today.  Hungary has been living under the oppressive thumb of Viktor Orban for some time.  He came into power after he moved the Russians out in the sixties.  Trump emulates this guy. We need to stand up and save our Republic. 

thats it