I love this city. I loved it when it was a cow town.
Mountain City uses untold resources in
manpower and money, subterfuge and chicanery and brute force to quell a
peaceful protest of unarmed citizens exercising their First
amendment rights (the right to peaceably assemble ) having first to obtain permits from the people they
are protesting against. Employing among other means, harassment in the
form of petty chickenshit regulations like after the fact ordinances such as closing
public parks, public camping and sleeping on the sidewalk to name a few. All this in the sight of the gleaming new courthouse
where gold letters high on the front proclaim LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
And
now, even as I write, barricades are being put in place, and scores of
identical white tents spread outward like a malignancy. Mountain
City is blocking the major streets and intersections of a major metropolitan city in
the western United States
for a street fair! I have not seen the
permit and know better than to ask for it.
Nor do I know who has the tent concession. It is
the Labor Day weekend kiddies and it is time for Mountain City’s
annual Tin Can Festival, coming hard on the heels of the annual Rat Festival,
the annual Flea and Tick festival. Whose
labor are we celebrating this Labor Day?
The workers in America
or the workers in The Peoples Republic
of China.
And
as long as Americans have Monday Night Football and A 6 pack of Blue Ribbon,
does anybody really give a shit?
The
beautiful thing about my country is that I am free to write this. So far!
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