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Friday, August 30, 2013

BREAD AND CIRCUSES

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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