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An Urgent Global Message

S M Chen
5 min readJan 9, 2021

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This is for all the nations of the world.

At last count, there were almost 200.

Know you are neither too large nor too small to be excluded from this message.

Everyone, please read this.

Whether you be friend or adversary, or a neutral nation, it is intended for you.

I do not write as a leader.

Rather, I am merely a concerned citizen who would like to leave a better world for my children and my grandchild.

Or at least a world.

We are living in perilous times.

We have a leader who will be POTUS (President of the USA) for 12 more days.

We admit he is unfit for the position. Some of us did not realize this in 2016, when he was elected, but it is abundantly clear to most of our citizens now.

Two days ago, during a speech to his base, he encouraged supporters to attack, without provocation and with violence, the seat of our federal government in Washington, DC. Not needing further encouragement, his supporters took him at his word.

Some may have reasoned thusly: if convicted, they might be able to count on him for Presidential pardon. After all, he has already done that for others convicted in a court of law.

Why not for them, his supporters? His base?

That might be the ultimate revenge he could wreak upon Democrats, liberals, and others he…

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