The Methods Of Vandals
When political signs started popping up for real about 6 weeks ago, I made note of them since they were something new along my morning commute. They dot the median strips of the parkway I ride in toward my rendezvous with the carpool. As I see them every day, their positions have become quite marked in my mind, along with the concentrations of one candidate’s signs versus the other. The last 2 weekends have seen the local Republicans and the Bush/Cheney campaign put out the majority of their signs where the Kerry signs have been up for a bit over a month. I drive 12 miles to the rendezvous and not once in all this time and along all that way have I seen Kerry signs either go missing or be defaced and destroyed. Yes, I know there are stories in the papers and on the TV, but I personally haven’t seen 1. There are 4 of my neighbors with Kerry signs in their yards and they’re all in exactly the same spot they were placed. (As is my Bush sign, I might add. We’ve got a good neighborhood here.)
On the way to work this morning, I saw none of the Bush/Cheney signs that had been placed along the parkway except in the last 3 miles of the commute. Those 3 miles had the signs, all right, but they’d been torn in half and tossed around on the ground. All of them. When I arrived at my co-worker’s house to pick up the car pool, he showed me his new Bush/Cheney sign in his yard. He didn’t have a frame to mount it on so he wire-tied it to his fence. (A fence fully on his property and back from the sidewalk about 10 feet, in case you’re wondering.) When we got back this afternoon, it was gone. On my way home, I took a different road to see if I could find any that had survived. About half were still there. The remainder were all vandalized with spray paint.
The Left sure doesn’t like when other people exercise their freedom of speech. The methods they use to silence dissent of their opinions are those of graffitti “artists” and vandals. When they deal with the spoken word they just shout people down. It’s really pathetic and I can’t wait for the elections to be done.
