I remember a certain Earth Day celebration last week at my university. There was a giant stage erected for performance artists to get up and perform skits or whatever about the environment. As I was passing by it on my bike, I saw an acquaintance of mine named Sean performing a poem (I think) on stage. Now, Sean is the perfect epitome of a hippie. He loves wearing tie dye clothes and sandals, has the constant stench of sweat and reefer on him, the only thing he's missing is really long hair. Well, he was performing, and was basically just shrieking and yelling incoherently in a shrill, obnoxious voice. At one point as I was passing, I heard him scream, "AMERICA, EXILE ME!" I thought to myself, 'Oh, if only we could!' I didn't stick around because I had better things to do, but I heard later that Sean's performance got worse as time went on. He made frequent references to pot, cocaine, and acid without the school's administrators doing anything to stop him (This, at an event with young children present). However, as soon as he said the "F" word on stage, a woman politely came up on stage, took the microphone from him and said, "Thank you, Sean, who's next?" This apparently sent Sean completely over the edge, as he started running around screaming and cursing at the top of his lungs.
Of course, we need to protect our environment, it should be among our top priorities, but people like Sean are simply nuts.
we need to protect our personal rights before protecting the environment...
People like Sean and Randi Rhoades are guilty of air pollution.