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I saw Rick Santorum tonight. He gave almost an hour long speech which told about the peril we are in, fiscally as well as socially. I kept saying over and over to myself that Rick is a candidate who really gets it. He knows where we are headed if Zer0 is kept in office one more term.

As Rick was talking he was rudely interrupted by youths in green hair and punked out fashion. It was an outdoor event and they were as loud as they could be and they did not stop. They even drove their cars past the event (we were next to a main street) and stopped to honk their horns. For them they wanted to stop Rick from talking. They wanted to obstruct Rick’s right to speak.

However, I was greatly impressed with Santorum’s handling of them. He repeated several times how they were living in a country where they were free to express themselves and the he respected their right to do so. Then he brought out the Bill of Rights and Constitution from his pocket and told how the Constitution was the document that ensured our Bill of Rights. We received a real schooling tonight about the meaning of our Declaration of Independents, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. While the yahoos were hollering, Santorum told about why these words set this nation apart from anything else in human history: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” I wish my fellow FRiends could have heard it.

Then, Rick told about these last words: “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” Rick said that these signers of the document were risking great consequences to declare our independence from the greatest world power in the history of mankind, Great Britain. He said it was their “sacred Honor” to do so. Then he turned his attention to the hollering demons at the rally. He said that they have little consequence for disrupting ones freedom to speak. They would not lose their lives our fortune. That those who do risk their lives and fortune are our brave men and women in the military who fight for their freedom to holler and disrupt. They have no honor because they show no respect and sacrifice nothing, unlike our brave men and women in uniform. The crowd roared with approval. Yes, they got a schooling from Rick Santorum.

I was not going to go this long, but I thought my FRiends would appreciate my thoughts.