INFILTRATOR!

As Donna got into the cab there was an anti-war demonstration brewing at Ground Zero. As I was dressed in running shorts, a t-shirt and sneakers I thought it would be a good chance to wade into the middle of the mob to listen and observe.

Bottom line ... my earlier perception about these demonstrators turned out to be pretty much correct. They were overwhelmingly young, cocky and grungy. I would stand next to some of them until they tried to engage me in conversation. "Hey, dude. Is this a great way to meet girls, or what?" One unkempt and slightly smelly demonstrator told me that he was thinking about getting arrested, but was having second thoughts because he had to move tomorrow. I walked off to stifle the urge to ask him if he had new wheels for his shopping cart.

Another was holding a sign saying that General Electric was going to make $600,000,000 in Iraq. I asked him if he knew the way to the Stock Exchange. I told him that if GE was doing that well we ought to rush over there and buy some stock. I swear I thought he actually spent about ten seconds thinking it over.

And ohhhhhh .. the conspiracies! You just wouldn't believe the wild conspiracies these people were spouting. I listened to one character pontificate to the crowd at length about the attack on the World Trade Towers. I really didn't understand all that he was saying .... but I think it had something to do with asbestos. Somehow I thought this character was telling the crowd that George Bush had the World Trade Towers attacked because they contained asbestos and it was easier to just bring them down like that then it would have been to actually clean up the asbestos and it was all some sort of a favor to the people who owned the buildings and all that. The people who owned the buildings? The people of New York owned the buildings! A Republican president is doing favors for the people of New York? Well ... as Mr. Asbestos was speaking he turned and looked at me. "It's Neal Boortz!" he said. Then he gathered his crowd of sycophants around me and tried to draw me into the conversation. I told him to call the show ..... my listeners would love to hear his theories. We'll see. My cover was blown, though ... so it was time to move on.

I'll just leave it at this. If the government of this country, let alone the management of any convenience store in this nation, were turned over to this crowd for thirty days we would face a catastrophe of immeasurable proportions. I wouldn't hire this crowd to pull weeds.

Sorry. Didn't like her speech. It was better suited for a revival than for a national convention of a political party that wants to attract people of all faiths ... or no faith. I couldn't believe it when Dole used that "The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion." line. Just what does that mean? Does that mean that you are not free to not be religious? Does not being free from religion mean that the government can somehow force you to chose some religious faith if you want full participation in our society, or in the Republican Party?

Elizabeth Dole's speech could well be Exhibit "A" in my case for why I'm a Libertarian. I just don't like the idea that our Constitution can be used as an instrument to prevent you from being free from something.

Don't get me wrong here. I have my religious faith, and I try to live my life accordingly. I just can't understand why others aren't content to live their lives in accordance with their particular faith without forcing it on unwilling people.

Then, of course, there was the abortion thing. Elizabeth Dole believes that government should be stong enough to put a gun to a woman's head and tell her that she has no choice but to proceed with a pregnancy she wishes to terminate and to have a baby she doesn't want to have. Sorry, but if I thought that any significant number of undecided voters were actually watching Elizabeth Dole, she would have lost votes for George Bush last night.

If the government of this country, let alone the management of any convenience store in this nation, were turned over to this crowd for thirty days we would face a catastrophe of immeasurable proportions. I wouldn't hire this crowd to pull weeds.

He could as well have been speaking of moral-liberal libertarian ideologues.

As I was dressed in running shorts, a t-shirt and sneakers I thought it would be a good chance to wade into the middle of the mob to listen and observe.

That's not sufficient camoflage. Boortz should have jumped into a restaurant dumpster and rolled around a few times to really fit in.

"If the government of this country, let alone the management of any convenience store in this nation, were turned over to this crowd for thirty days we would face a catastrophe of immeasurable proportions. I wouldn't hire this crowd to pull weeds."

He could as well have been speaking of moral-liberal libertarian ideologues.
-CJ-

Speaks FR's foremost moral-liberal jihadic ideologue.

Elizabeth Dole believes that government should be stong enough to put a gun to a woman's head and tell her that she has no choice but to proceed with a pregnancy she wishes to terminate and to have a baby she doesn't want to have.

This is about as STUPID a comment as I have ever seen. This guy demonstrates that he is disingenuous at least, and dishonest in the worst case.

I can just see the government putting guns to women's heads...yea, that is how it would go down if abortion were not mandated by the Supreme Court via Roe v Wade.

Somehow, I thought that if abortion were left to the states, some would ban it and others would allow it.

But, since Roe v Wade mandates that abortion be legal in all states, I guess we will never know.

That said, drugs are illegal in most states. I suspect we should see guns being put to drug users' heads any day now... what a freakin moroooon.

I agree with his assessment of Dole's speech. While listening, I thought that it was just a series of platitudes, each of which called for applause.

That's not the way to make a speech. You make a case for something and then use a zinger of a line to sum it up. THAT'S when you want some applause. Not for every sentence, for goodness sakes.

Correction. I agree with him to the extent that it was not a good speech. The detail that I wanted to point out, I did, in my previous post.

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