This is the flip side of the coin

[pecunium]

There was a small kerfluffle when a Bush supporter alleged his daughter had had a Bush sign ripped from her hands (which seems a trifle less than troublesome than the kicks and hair-pulling Bush supporters have been giving to Kerry supoorters in police custody, but I digress).

Today I see this

Vandals target local Democrats’ office for second time "LAFAYETTE — Vandals set fire to signs and wrote pro-President Bush messages on the front of Lafayette’s Democratic Party."

Which of the two is worse (even if we assume, which the evidence suggests is a bit of reach, given that the Bush supporter has made the same, basic, allegations in the past two presidential elections)? The snatching of a sign from someone's hand, when they are at a rally for one guy, supporting the other, or the burning of signs; endagering property and the defacement of a building?

I know where I stand, and I know that it would make me less willing to support the candidate you were willing to try to pull this sort of half-assed kristallnact on behalf of.

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[pecunium.livejournal.com]

You have to speak out, and you have to speak out even when it happens far from you.

I, as someone else said, don't want to discover I was, "A good German," should the situation get that bad. By speaking out (as the good Rev. Neimoeller reminds us) we make it less accceptable. The same is true when skinheads, and Klansmen appear.

People convince themselves such things are conscionable becuase they do not see it condemned... silence = assent. So silence can't be allowed to happen.


Feel free (see commennt to antiquated_tory above. Discussion is a good thing.

TK