Re: RAT "Politics antithetical to BCT" Readers please delete!

["William Houts" <houts.w@ghc.org>]

Yay, Chris! Let's you and me be on the same team, okay?

Seriously, this whole "throwing away your vote" thing is an Illuminati plot.  I'm terrified that Bush imight end up choosing three or four Supreme Court justices.  But sometimes you just have to bite the bullet.  We're talking about our country here, not just the next four years, but the next four hundred. 

What is this talk I'm hearing, anyway?  "Vote for Mr. Bones because he's not Mr. Tambo!"  That's not the behavior of free people.  That's the posture of a slave what's afraid of a whuppin.

It's hard for me to use words like this, because they've been very successfully coopted by racist homophobic troglodytes.  But maybe it's time to think about being patriots, for Goddess's sake.  Back in the day, patriots had panache and wit.  They weren't always murderous creeps living in Idaho compounds. 

Back in the day, being a patriot was synonymous with being a creative, thinking human being. Thomas Jefferson spoke at least three languages fluently and read Homer in the original Greek.  He was curious about things, interested in things, got a bang out of reading the outrageous writings of his friends, especially the stuff that pissed people off. 

And Ben Franklin, let's not even TALK about Ben Franklin.  He was a crazy motherfucker. 

And finally, today, I'm thinking about Patrick Henry. He said a lot of great things, because he was influenced by big ass political philosophers. But the one everyone remembers is the one I'm thinking about today. 

"Give me liberty or give me death."  

What he meant, I guess, is that nothing iss worthwhile if you aren't free.  And there's no compronise.  He didn't say "Well, give me liberty or give me death, but I'll settle for some new curtains."

But isn't that what we're saying with this election?  We want to vote for Nader, we really do. He's the only one we trust farther than we can throw a wheelbarrow. But trust and freedom and all that is for those crazy kids.
 
So we'll settle for the curtains.