There's something about a man behind a microphone with a bandolier of shells across his chest and a shotgun slung behind him. The Powers That Be ignored *hundreds of thousands* of people on the Mall in DC, the Tea Party, because they weren't socialist pawns and couldn't be used for pro-gov propaganda purposes. And they were unarmed. They (the Powers) THINK they know exactly how far they can push the agenda before there's a REALLY LOUD Tea Party in the District of Corruption. On a bad day, I think they're right about that. Incrementalism has been working great so far. Right is right even if nobody does it and thinks you're crazy if YOU do it. The time will come to cease worrying about what other people, or history, will think. John Donne wrote "Any man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in Mankind." Any man's capitulation to any tyranny diminishes all the rest of us.
We need to do this at all the tea parties where allowed by law.
ReplyDeleteWithout apologies, I submit that the demonstrations will cause the current socialist administration to do exactly zippo.
ReplyDeleteThere's something about a man behind a microphone with a bandolier of shells across his chest and a shotgun slung behind him.
ReplyDeleteThe Powers That Be ignored *hundreds of thousands* of people on the Mall in DC, the Tea Party, because they weren't socialist pawns and couldn't be used for pro-gov propaganda purposes. And they were unarmed.
They (the Powers) THINK they know exactly how far they can push the agenda before there's a REALLY LOUD Tea Party in the District of Corruption.
On a bad day, I think they're right about that. Incrementalism has been working great so far.
Right is right even if nobody does it and thinks you're crazy if YOU do it. The time will come to cease worrying about what other people, or history, will think.
John Donne wrote "Any man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in Mankind."
Any man's capitulation to any tyranny diminishes all the rest of us.