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Apparently it doesn't matter how you affiliate, or who you affiliate with: you're either in, or you are OUT.

I just L.O.V.E. all the stories cropping up about citizens constitutional rights being squashed due to the Republican/Democratic National Conventions. I guess freedom of speech (and the press) and freedom from unwarranted search and seizure are civil liberties that are justifiably taken away from average people in times of...mere political gatherings?

What are these party people so paranoid about, anyway?

Oh well, at least we've got a freedom cage.

I, for one, find it a little disconcerting when the people on the inside assume that outside people like me (and you?) are going to go crazy with illegal rage and launch some kind of offensive. Maybe if we knew what they knew--what really goes on behind the scenes--we'd see why that was an idea of reasonable merit, too.

And that reminds me of the interview that got me started on this whole blog (which I admit I've been neglecting). This interview talks about how a fascist government (yes, kind of like ours, right now) effectively closes down democracies, and how "hot" things can get at election time:



So let's not get crazy, but rather let's get strategic, get local, get organized and get each others' backs. We've been needing to, and something tells me we're gonna continue to need to.