How are Puerto Ricans taking the news about corruption and ineptitude standing between their citizens and the Aid America had delivered? And the news that they deliberately HID that fact from them?
Well, they have delivered their leaders a VERY ‘sharp’ message.
They brought a life-sized Guillotine to their protest.
Imagine looking out of the Governor’s mansion to see THIS outside your window:
A Puerto Rican guillotine of the resistance flag. Worth noting, Puerto Rico has one of the highest indices of income inequality in the world. Protester tells me that they want to move up elections now to remove the current government. “We gave them a chance, and they struck out.” pic.twitter.com/f4ca0OBoG2
— Arelis R. Hernández (@arelisrhdz) January 23, 2020
They may never see the phrase ‘heads will roll’ in the same light again. The protesters don’t seem to be buying the passing of the buck that folks like AOC like to kick around about everything being somehow a problem of ‘colonialism’.
No, that lets people who were elected to areas of specific responsibility off the hook too easily. They were elected to do a job. If someone from the US mainland failed this miserably, we’d be calling for his head. Puerto Rican officials should be held to the VERY same standard.
Jail time or mass resignations.
Y’all.
Puerto Rico is back.
This protest right now is not just demanding the governor resign.
They’re calling for mass resignations or jail time. pic.twitter.com/XbE78zmxE7
— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) January 23, 2020
The guillotine has been been put up outside the Governor’s mansion in San Juan. pic.twitter.com/siTCpihlRO
— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) January 23, 2020
This was the moment, a short time ago, that police used tear gas to disperse protesters in front of the Puerto Rico Governor's mansion. They are demanding the resignation of Governor @wandavazquezg and Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz. pic.twitter.com/X3DK2TRVEz
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) January 24, 2020
To be quite honest, that sends a FAR stronger message than just burning paper mache people in effigy.
Building a freaking guillotine like that, and taking it to a protest takes commitment.
