Micah Naziri has always taken a stand and been there for the people, and now that fascist police and actual self-described Nazis have targeted Micah, in conjunction with corrupt members of law enforcement, utilizing COINTELPRO-type disinformation campaigns, we too are taking a stand for Micah.
When we told Micah about the disinformation being spread, he said only one thing, a quote from the great Sufi poet Jalaladin Rumi: “Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.”
When asked what this meant to him, he said “the world is filled with a lot of evil and egos. When you challenge that, expect the most toxic of egos to rise against you and stoop to no level to besmirch your character. They will create stories from half-truths, and the gaps they will fill in with truths they wish existed, but do not. If you are taking a stand for what is right because it is right, and not to gain friends or become a popular person, then you should be utterly indifferent to this reaction from those defending the evil in the world. As they are evil people, evil claims emanate from them. In psychology this is called projection. As the Zen masters taught, I am not what you think I am, you are what you think I am. Some others get caught up in the disinformation, but in time, the full story reveals all truth, and if you are patient, good-hearted people who may have taken you as an enemy, will come around and see the real you.”
You make a lot of enemies when you take a stand on important issues, but you also make a lot of friends.