QUESTION FOR THE LOONEYS CARRYING SIGNS...

at yesterday's protests that said "Obama Lies, Freedom Dies:"  

If FREEDOM DIED why weren't all the protesters who carried those slanderous, libelous signs about the President of the United States--why weren't they arrested on the spot?


If FREEDOM DIED, the people carrying those signs would have been arrested.  They were not.

If FREEDOM DIED, those thousands of Americans who showed up to protest would have been stopped before their march had begun.  They were not.

If FREEDOM DIED, the people carrying signs that said President Obama was a half-breed Muslin [sic] would have been taken away.  They were not.

If FREEDOM DIED, the deeply stupid woman who declared that the Muslims were taking over Washington would have been carted off to an asylum.  She was not.

If FREEDOM DIED, the children posing as "men" and photographing a photo of Mr. Obama with horseshit on him would have been beaten by government officials.  They were not.

If FREEDOM DIED, all the childish antics and hysterical blathering about the "death of freedom" would have been quashed by government men in uniforms.  They were not.

Why is this?

BECAUSE FREEDOM HAS NOT DIED.

What has died is America's ability to discuss complicated issues rationally and reasonably.  Instead we have misguided, misinformed, hysterical mobs roaming the streets in search of a demon who doesn't exist--except in their own fevered and sick paranoia.  Instead we have angry throngs heading for the "slippery, steep, and narrow verge of crag-like agony."

"In each human heart terror survives

The raven it has gorged: the loftiest fear

All that they would disdain to think were true:

Hypocrisy and custom make their minds

The fanes of many a worship, now outworn.

They dare not devise good for man's estate,

And yet they know not that they do not dare."

From "Prometheus Unbound" by Percy Bysshe Shelley  

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity."--WB Yeats