The Sign Didn't Have To Say Anything

 

A young Russian woman demonstrating with a blank sign was arrested by the police in Nizhny Novgorod today. pic.twitter.com/GwMFv0aIgm

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 13, 2022

All there is to say is so obvious it projects onto the blank space with a reproof larger than words. The space was enough to hint at the spaces where lives, where villages, used to be. The vacancy spoke all by itself of the emptiness of a soul who would perpetrate such an enormity. The blank sign acted as a mirror, and the state did not like what it saw.

I wish her well, because that space projected her will to speak out, even if there were no words,

UPDATE: This sign, however, did say something:

The presenter at the Russian state television was speaking about Belarus-Russia collaboration, when a woman just ran onto the stage with a sign that said, “Stop the war! Don’t believe propaganda! They’re lying to you here!” pic.twitter.com/MHQFMbQfom

— Franak Viačorka (@franakviacorka) March 14, 2022

If it's true that for evil to prosper, all it needs is for good people to do nothing, then I desperately hope that good people doing something can stop it. It is our only hope.