Righteous, bro! Indeed your editorial, with its echos of Thomas Paine, cuts to the larger ethical point many people would otherwise miss. IMO, your comments are a common-sensical distillation of the moment. If the need for editorial brevity cut short this satisfyingly epic rant please, embellish your thoughts. This nation and the broader world are sorely in need of a bottom-up re-unifying restoration of sanity based on self-evident morality. Your platform is gaining purchase.
I can't tell you how much I HATE these protests, especially since they occur near me since I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I always check traffic before I leave my house, because these idiots can show up anywhere. They blocked I-880 in Oakland yesterday as well; I often travel on that freeway to visit family members and friends. I shudder to think that I could get caught in that snarled traffic. I wish some of the news crews can interview people who have been stuck behind these a$$holes: How many weddings, funerals, doctors' appointments, vital surgeries, job interviews, etc. have been missed because of their behavior?? And for what?! And to add fuel to the fire, we have to contend with testosterone-fueled jackasses closing down the Bay Bridge to do sideshows!! Our leaders are WEAK! (We are trying to recall our district attorney here in Alameda County, because she is not prosecuting violent criminals, and she sure as heck is not going to do much to these protestors.) Props to Florida who does not sanction blocking traffic: you can land in jail/prison for up to 15 years, I heard.
Might be time to make some of these people pay some physical consequences. We still have a "fighting words" standard in this nation - some ignorant neo-Nazi shouts "Death to the Jews" in my face, he might be down on his knees afterward trying to collect his teeth from the pavement. I can't believe we're allowing anti-Semitic scum chant "Death to the Jews" on American streets.
Righteous, bro! Indeed your editorial, with its echos of Thomas Paine, cuts to the larger ethical point many people would otherwise miss. IMO, your comments are a common-sensical distillation of the moment. If the need for editorial brevity cut short this satisfyingly epic rant please, embellish your thoughts. This nation and the broader world are sorely in need of a bottom-up re-unifying restoration of sanity based on self-evident morality. Your platform is gaining purchase.
I can't tell you how much I HATE these protests, especially since they occur near me since I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I always check traffic before I leave my house, because these idiots can show up anywhere. They blocked I-880 in Oakland yesterday as well; I often travel on that freeway to visit family members and friends. I shudder to think that I could get caught in that snarled traffic. I wish some of the news crews can interview people who have been stuck behind these a$$holes: How many weddings, funerals, doctors' appointments, vital surgeries, job interviews, etc. have been missed because of their behavior?? And for what?! And to add fuel to the fire, we have to contend with testosterone-fueled jackasses closing down the Bay Bridge to do sideshows!! Our leaders are WEAK! (We are trying to recall our district attorney here in Alameda County, because she is not prosecuting violent criminals, and she sure as heck is not going to do much to these protestors.) Props to Florida who does not sanction blocking traffic: you can land in jail/prison for up to 15 years, I heard.
Might be time to make some of these people pay some physical consequences. We still have a "fighting words" standard in this nation - some ignorant neo-Nazi shouts "Death to the Jews" in my face, he might be down on his knees afterward trying to collect his teeth from the pavement. I can't believe we're allowing anti-Semitic scum chant "Death to the Jews" on American streets.