A Dissedent is Here

The USA is the greatest country in the world. Why? Because we tolerate dissent in the pursuit of a democratic society.
You don't have to be Borat to poke holes in everything written above. So far, we are a chickenshit society in two ways: limiting big money in Washington, and curtailing manifestly stupid peoples' idea that freedom translates into shooting everyone around them.
Family friend Fred Werthemier devoted his entire professional life to limiting the influence of big money on Washington. Werthemier edited "Common Cause" for years trying to restrict big bux in DC. Unfortunately, he and the rest of us failed (by not coming to see how important the issue is) in a supposedly representative democracy.
I write fairly often of my Alma Mater in this space, and some might think it strange or weird to harp on the University of Wisconsin's role in the anti-Vietnam war movement. But the reason is this: students at my college helped stop an anti-democratic war that was forced on it by the executive branch. Sound familiar, Iraq vets?
In my time there, in a footnote to history, the largest demonstration occurred after Reagan decided, briefly, to put American troops in Honduras, just outside the Nicaragua border. Two thousand students immediately marched on the state capitol building (a convenient eight blocks from the campus).
There's still the question of what such a government would do if really threatened (say a demonstration that aimed at taking over the White House and Congress). All I know right now is that my grandmother, the 93-year-old Lindy Boggs, would be shot dead if she came out in favor of gun control.
She would be on her best behavior, as always, but some courageous second amendment (second clause) defender would kill her before she said "darlin, I like huntin the same as anyone else, but I don't think you need an AK-47 to do it."
As Bob Herbert said in the (communist) NYT a few weeks ago "this country is both too irresponsible and immature to pass real gun control measures."
Kill him, he might be right.
Do anything to undermine this threat to representative democracy. Lie down in front of their (Fairfax, Va.) Headquarters. Stop traffic in and out. Throw red paint on vehicles coming in and out. Eggs, turds whatever. These people work for an organization that is worse than communist Russia in the Gulag.
It might take a long time (it will) but no matter the repression, no matter who is killed by a decent asshole citizen just tryin to make a livin, block them. I will probably be killed in the process, and so will you.
Defend America, and bring the war to the warmakers. For many Americans, that means you.