"I Could Kill You Right Now"-We Must Fully Join The Fight Against Authoritarian Right

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​31 people joined Week 449 of the John Cornyn Houston Office Protest today. You see below some of our team today. 

People showed up openly and confidently for democracy despite the aggression and threats of the right over the past week. 

The John Cornyn Houston Office Protest is each Tuesday, 11:30-1, 5300 Memorial Dr. 

One of our team got a threat from a motorist stopped at a traffic light. A woman told me that a man at the light said “I could kill you right now.” He pointed towards a visible holstered gun. 

She did not get the plates. We will be telling HPD. The policing of the Cornyn Protest and of protest in Houston in general is a discussion larger than this post. 

We also had a clearly-vocalized threat to shoot us from an apartment building balcony back on July 22. HPD talked to the man who said it. HPD was cooperative. The man was not arrested after an HPD call to the Harris County District Attorney’s office to decide how to proceed. 

Cornyn Protest participants have an average age of something like 65. It’s basic King George the right to petition your government mainstream stuff. It tells you the nature of the right in America today that people feel the need to threaten to shoot us. 

I report all this not to scare people away. I want people to show up. Favorable reactions from passing motorists always far-exceed negative reactions. Every single week far more people are happy to see us rather than angry we are there. 

The more people who show up the safer we all are. We are going to have to show up for one another. 

This issue is we must be clear-eyed about the nature of the challenge ahead. Standing up to an authoritarian and white supremacist opponent is not going to be as safe as we would wish.

The struggle ahead is ours. Elected officials and institutions are not meeting the challenge. We are the main event. Please fully join the fight. 

I'm on the Egberto Willies Politics Done Right Show every Thursday from 6 AM to 7 AM for the Houston Democracy Project segment. You can hear the show on the radio, stream it on KPFT or watch later Egberto's YouTube channel.​​​​

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