All right, look.
A few years ago, Al Gore visited my daughter's school.
Between the cops and his motercade and the Secret Service, it bound up our little town for hours.
( Not that Security was on it's game that day.. I worked at the school at the time, but because I'm tiny I wandered right past the check-point. They thought I was just another kid depsite my pectoral developement. Idiots. I didn't know Gore was even in the school til I got into the office)
When Presidents and Vice Presidents travel, things get shut down because they must.
I've looked at your profile. You state that "we are no longer a free country".
How so?
I don't get visited by a Block Captain. I'm not required to go to " political meetings" . Nobody has offered me an incentive to rat out my neighbors. The Men in Black have not visited my husband at ork. Nobody has messed with our bank-account. Unless I travel by air, I don't even get asked to show a photo ID. No one is bugging my phone. ( I know how to check) No one is sidling up to my daughter and asking her about how I vote. There is no curfew. I get to live where I want, work where I want, send my daughter to school where I want.
I do what I want, when I want.
What is YOUR problem?
As we see in the photo, the sidewalk was not closed down.
Oh, far from it. There is a crowd of people standing there.
Some people were removed or arrested for one reason and only one reason: they were protesting.
THAT is why this isn't a free country.
"I'm not required to go to "political meetings"
And please don't miss any more of our litle re-educational soirees ...
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