Sigh
Saturday, May 29th, 2004News like this just irks the hell out of me. This country is headed in the wrong direction and the knowledge of it tears at me constantly. A friend recently sent me a letter comparing our personalities and said this:
if someone steps on our toes, or we sense transgression on the innocent, we feel obligated to retaliate.
Now this is very true of me. But the one thing I wouldn’t ever do is get mad at a mirror for mocking me. What I mean by that is the last line in the article: “…a few and dangerous minds don’t understand that they have only mimicked the same perversity this painting had expressed.” Are they upset because they see themselves in that picture? Probably so. Oh sure, they would try to wrap their misbehavior in the Stars and Stripes and say that this gallery owner is “unpatriotic”. Patriots make changes to their country’s rules from within the boundary of those rules. Traitors are those who make their own rules as they see fit.
In fact, the assessment of me is so dead on accurate that I would love to find a way to protect people like Lori Haigh. If I were free to do so, I would go to Frisco right now and fight this out with whomever wanted a piece. But I can’t so that leaves me numbingly frustrated and pounding away at this keyboard in anger. There is so much wrong now, how can it ever be put right? And how do I make it right, what can/do I do?



