(in reply to a friend)
Now people are getting the picture !
Peaceful protest anywhere should be legal, even if it’s Illinois Nazis (I hate Illinois Nazis). When skinheads got a “parade permit” and came through our city, I agreed with many of my friends and said they had a perfect right to apply for a parade permit, receive it, and march through downtown. We had a perfect right to be no where in the vicinity, and not add to their message or the news cameras.
Side note : some of the commentators below the youtube video need to learn that Nazi actually is a contraction in German for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
I just get in trouble for discriminating (I have discriminating taste; I call each person on a case by case basis, on their beliefs and ultimately their actions). As I’ve told a number of ye, I’d have voted for Dr. Alan Keyes in a heartbeat.
Since it isn’t really America anymore though, I do not make my thoughts known too publicly anymore. It’s bad for my contracting business; a friend’s wife was shrilled at recently by a doctor’s wife for even suggesting that perhaps the government historically was perhaps not the best medical provider. Especially as an immigrant, why subject myself to the hate anymore? I can be “gray” in public too, it appears.
Folks are so upset, the vast majority of the sheeple here are not happy at all with the way the country is going. Having two ball teams (one called Republicrats and one called Demicans) sure makes for some good entertainment for the masses, of course! Easy fault lines, easy divisions there to distract the populous (just like “birth certificates”). All of these unhappy folks seem to have no recourse to actually correct what’s ailing the country, so I’ve grown to believe they take it out on who they can instead. Surely this just adds to the cycle . . .
There’s about one guy at the Federal level I’d give a nickel for; he’s the only Federal libertarian, and he had to run as a republicrat to get elected. I’m sure many of you could guess it’s Ron Paul. I believe none of us will ever agree completely on everything with even one other person in the whole world, nor should we expect that. Thinking people can differ, and that’s good.
But I think we’re generations past “saving” the country. Once the people learn they can vote themselves bread and circuses, history shows it’s all over but the crying. It may take 50 years, or 150, but that society is doomed and will eventually have to re-form, as humans always do. Regardless of who penned it or what pieces it was made from, I believe history will bear out this quotation as generally true. Seems like 476 A.D. all over again.
However, I believe we have some distinct time left to party. I think this fellow’s favorite quote says it all, really. And even though Nero didn’t literally fiddle while Rome burned, it’s high time I took some violin lessons and just quit worrying about it at all. I’m willing to spend one minute writing congress critters on an issue, and hitting “send”. That’s a reasonable investment tradeoff for how much effect I might have on anything at that level in the country.
Time to be concerned with me, my family, and friends (you’re all there, somewhere in those latter two!). While I can’t save the country, etc. I can seek happiness, peace, and mutual enjoyment for “me and mine” for the rest of my natural days.
Even if it eventually means emigrating again, this time to Costa Rica, which is more in line with the founding father’s ideas than the country I’m in now. /RantComplete
Cheers! 
And well wishes for your night (Best regards and Good Night)
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