Soapbox

Slippery Slope

Remember when we used to say in this country, “I disagree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it?” Isn’t that the very thing that our soldiers are defending to the death, over in Iraq?

What about “I disagree with your vote but I will defend your right to cast it” ? Isn’t that what America used to be all about?

While Americans are defending democracy in a foreign land, people in America are being required to sign loyalty oaths to even hear their president speak. They are being arrested for wearing the wrong T-shirt, or for saying the word “No” in public. Voting abuses that robbed thousands of minorities of the right to vote in Florida in the 2000 election have barely begun to be addressed by their governor 4 years later.

Is it any surprise then, with this type of climate being set by our own president, that people are having yard signs stolen, groups are trying to keep minorities from even reaching the polls and now, all over the state folks are getting “prank” phone calls giving them the wrong voting site information?

Toss free speech and the right to vote alongside checks and balances and separation of church and state on the Constitutional trash heap of the past 4 years!! This is the legacy of the Bush administration.
I wonder what rights and protections we’ll lose in the next 4 years?

VOTE, WHILE YOU STILL CAN!