Posted by
raymondr612001 on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 8:51:01 PM
08-05-08
Some random thoughts before I go back to Ripping on Obama.....
We in Michigan held congressional and state legislative primary elections today. Like any good citizen, I exercised the franchise and went to the polls to vote. I was, for a brief moment, tempted to sit this one out. But then I realized that I would be the worst hypocrite on God's green Earth if I did. For years, I've railed on those who bellyached about going to vote saying their vote did not really count or that elections were fixed and just sat on their butts. I'd chew them out big time about not voting. I'd get on them about the hundreds of thousands who gave their lives in wartime just to protect that one freedom. That heroes like Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the "Freedom Riders" of the 1960s would spin in their graves and think their sacrifices wasted. Bottom Line: If you don't participate in the process, you lose your right to complain when things don't go your way. See you all in November...I Hope.
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Recently I noticed that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had opend up an office just a few blocks from where I live. Those of you who have read my columns in the past know I have little or no use for that pack of socialist ambulance chasers. Rather than protect the rights of honest law-abiding citizens, defending the likes of drug dealers, terrorists, nazis, klansmen and child molesters is their stock in trade. Frankly, given the choice, I'd rather live next to a crack house than an ACLU office. Scumbags with law degrees are still scumbags.
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Rest in Peace, Mr. Snow.
"Enough Said!"