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You Must Not Sleep! – Arnulf Øverland

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From Boktips.

“Arnulf Øverland (1889 – 1968) was a Norwegian author, poet, and nationalist. “Du må ikke sove” (You Must Not Sleep) was published in 1937, and is seen as a warning against Nazism and what was to come.

During the war, Øverland wrote several famous resistance poems, and was imprisoned in Møllergata 19, Grini and Sachsenhausen. He survived all three, and after the war became involved in the Norwegian language struggle as chairman of the Riksmålsforbundet (“The Riksmaal Society – The Society for the Preservation of Traditional Standard Norwegian”).”

We should be paying attention to what is happening in America today, instead of sleeping. This is reminiscent of Ben Franklin’s warning, “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

Original Norwegian and English translation side-by-side

The Old Wolf has nothing more to say, Øverland has said it all.

The Declaration of Resistance

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Found at Closer to the Edge on Substack. Worth reading, worth remembering, worth sharing.

SECTION I: THE PREAMBLE

When in the course of human events, a government abandons its duty and weaponizes its power against the people it was meant to serve, it becomes the right, and the obligation, of the people to resist.

We are not radicals. We are not extremists. We are not ungrateful.

We are citizens who have watched our leaders celebrate the suffering of others, legislate away human dignity, and laugh as they strip healthcare from the sick and food from the hungry. We have waited. We have hoped. We have pleaded for decency.

But the government of the United States, as it now stands under President Donald J. Trump, no longer serves the public good.

It does not preserve life—it endangers it.

It does not secure liberty—it undermines it.

It does not promote happiness—it enshrines cruelty.

This is not the product of incompetence. It is intentional.
He governs with malice. He legislates with vengeance. He drapes himself in flags and lies and calls it patriotism, while millions bleed beneath the weight of his policies.

We do not rise today to tear this country down.

We rise to tear it back from those who have hijacked it.

We rise not in rebellion against America, but in defense of its soul.

Read the remainder at Closer to the Edge, and do all you can to resist the fascism of this illegitimate administration.

The Old Wolf has spoken.

**** you, Ron DeathSentence

Posted on by The Old Wolf

This is a blog. I guess that makes me a blogger. I currently live in Florida (snowbirding from New England).

Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, is (in my humble opinion) a raving, hateful, ignorant lunatic, and the poster-boy for someone who wants to out-fascist Donald Trump.

He is also a disgrace to an honorable, Italian family name.

I have no intention of registering with the state of Florida to post my opinions about this gross waste of oxygen, human cytoplasm, and space on the Earth. If by some unholy twist of fate he were ever elected to the office of President, I would sincerely consider emigrating to Canada, or Norway, or some other civilized country.

In your face, Governor!

The Old Wolf has spoken.