Though I knew I wasn’t going to like the outcome, I’ve still been looking forward to having this election over with. I’ve especially been looking forward to the cessation of political ads, but I’ve been almost as glad at the thought of no more yard signs. Unfortunately, those haven’t disappeared; actually, it’s amazing how many are still up. And then, driving home from work yesterday, I saw that a new one had joined the others:
(My apologies for my shadow in the corner; I took this shot this morning, since I wanted to be sure I got the pictures before someone takes this sign down, and the lighting conditions were far from optimal.) I saw that yesterday, and I just about drove off the road, I was so surprised. But then, heading back the other way for Wednesday night stuff at the church, I saw the other side (again, my apologies for the lighting):
Now, I’m not posting these photos because I endorse their sentiment. Far from it, actually—this is the equal and opposite error to Joe Biden suggesting the DoJ should put Bush and Cheney on trial, and I have no use for the criminalization of politics, in any direction. Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid have done this country no good, I believe, but they haven’t done anything to merit impeachment (as far as is publicly known, anyway), and Barack Obama hasn’t done anything at all. (I suppose if you wanted to criminalize doing nothing in the U.S. Senate, you’d have a case, but then you’d have to indict about half the body, which wouldn’t be an improvement.)Rather, I’m posting these photos because this sign worries me. Not a lot—it is, after all, just one isolated sign in one town in northern Indiana—but as with letters to the editor, you have to figure that one person doing something like this probably speaks for a number of other folks who feel the same way; and I don’t know how many people that is, how widely held this attitude might be, or—the real concern—how it might spread if things start getting rough too soon for the new administration. This isn’t a fire conservatives should start playing with. We’ve put up with enough of this garbage directed at the Bush 43 administration, and we knew it was wrong then—we should remember it’s wrong and not be tempted to start pelting the Obama/Pelosi administration with it. Policy disagreement is a political matter, not a criminal matter, and we need to keep it that way.
This worries you? Go to L.A. where you can watch angry hoards of gays and their sympathizers stopping traffic in the wake of Prop. 8 passing. The liberal illuminati are on the warpath there. Oh no, a little quiet expression of one’s free speech is no worry at all. Now, if the dude starts passing out guns and ammo, I’d worry.
From the Left, I expect that. The thought of the Right responding in kind (and, inevitably, upping the ante) concerns me, yes.
…please where can I buy a unicorn?