Yep, I cam home today and my Bush/Cheney sign was gone! I find myself feeling both angry and entertained by this.
Half of me feels like my rights have been violated. On my own property, I wanted to show my support for our President, and some low life with nothing better to do on a Saturday had to come and steal my freedom of expression right out of my own front yard.
On the other hand, I laugh at the irony! Why? Because I would be willing to bet you any amount of money that the chickenshit that stole my sign bitches on a regular basis about how the President is using the Patriot Act to trample on peoples rights.
As I think of this, I can't help thinking about the contrast that we saw during the conventions. In Boston, the Democrats gathered to gripe about how the President and John Ashcroft are infringing on individual human rights and personal freedoms through expanded police power, while outside protesters were caged like animals behind barbed wire and guarded by riot police. Later in New York, when the Republicans who are so busy trampling individual liberties and quashing all dissent gathered for their convention, thousands of protestors with violent ande treasonous anti-american signs and slogans marched through the streets, basically unincumbered (how's that for big word usage
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It just goes to show you which party is truly trying to silence the voices of dissent, and which party is supporting free speech!