Winnie's Way: April 4, 2007

I watched, on TV, the demonstration marches on Washington, and in cities throughout the nation with alarm. To me they seemed to smack of anarchy and mob rule as I watched milling crowds yelling and making crude gestures. I heard reports of clashes and roughing up of groups with opposing views. This is not a “peaceable assembly.” There is a right way and a wrong way to protest what our government does and public demonstrations are very seldom right.

In recent years these loudly vocal demonstrations have become more and more common. People seem to forget the old edicts of “Divide and conquer, and “Together we stand, divided we fall.” I have watched these things happening in the U.S.A. in the past decades and I am scared for what is happening to our country, its laws and its guarantees of “freedom and justice for all.”

Our “unbiased liberal press” is not averse to manipulating, mangling and managing news so it bears only a superficial resemblance to fact. They use catch phrases like “politically correct,” “racist,” “Christian right,” “right wing,” “gun nuts,” and more, that are twisted, distorted and magnified to make right seem wrong, and wrong right, to entice people into rebellion. Unhappily many people are sucked in by the adroit propaganda and become willing dupes.

These people who arrange and take part in the massive demonstrations are often traitors to America, who play into the enemy’s hands, giving them aid and comfort, as they did during the Vietnam War. It is now known that Vietnam was ready to surrender, but fought on because of the demonstrations — until the U.S. Army came home, without victory. Now the same thing seems to be happening again.

The right way to protest is free for everyone to use and is much more effective. Write letters to, e-mail or phone Congressmen, Senators, Governors, Assemblymen — anyone in power in our government. State your stand and why you believe as you do. Your complaint won’t be on TV, or in papers, to encourage enemies, but it will reach legislators as demonstrations won’t. They are personal to each legislator and more likely to pay attention, even if misspelled or ungrammatical. You are a voter — they respect that.