Looks like you busted someone in secret admiration for the Socialists and their methods that he claims to be fighting against so much. Its funny, but these Losertarians and Constipation Party ranters always love to blast the Commies and have this holy-than-thou attitude towards Republicans in their never ending battle with the Hammer and Sickle, but why are they always wanting to copy the protestors methodologies?
What's worse, is that rather than getting together with 10 like minded raving "patriots" in a nothing more than a circle jerk they fail to do the one thing that could actually affect power; sell out and vote for the Republicans.
(Not that I am a rah rah Kool Aid drinker for the GOP--Recall David Dreier!)
That's rich, calling anti-socialists who have not hesitated to get out into the streets at one point or another in their lives, like Walesa and Reagan (back in the 1950s), closet admirers. It did cost more when protesters were shot dead by socialist filth in Latvia, Rangoon, Beijing, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Moldova, Bucharest, Prague, and on and on, and others were sent to the GULAG after the protests of 1968 swept Eastern Europe, or Poland throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Here, there is no such risk, but then the contemporary generation of bums have retreated to a smug isolation behind their computers and televisions. From Sons of Liberty (1765-1773) to protesters in Poland, Romania, Latvia, Armenia, Rangoon, Beijing, you name it, those tactics have worked and rallied hundreds of millions to the cause of liberty republican-style. Millions in the streets of Poland, hundreds of thousands in Berlin and Riga. I WAS THERE, and so were a lot of other AMERICANS supporting their causes with money, bodies, and more. Where were you? Are you calling them all secret admirers?
There is a lesson here about "power." It is the power to energize people to ACT for their values. It is not that the street is the only tactic that means anything, but rather it is a reflection of a deeper ability to "mobilize." The GOP hasn't been able to mobilize anything since Reagan -- you may not even be old enough to remember the street rallies by YAFers and even the local GOP from 1968 through 1988. I was in street actions (signs, counter-protests, etc.) ORGANIZED BY THE GOP ITSELF back then. Not today - it is run by wimps trading favors for cash and "media buys." For that matter, how many people have the Republicans actually RALLIED (that is, new voters, not just living off the Reagan legacy) in the past decade while they shovel weak-kneed drivel behind media buys(last I checked they lost the popular vote the last time, and continue their slide into oblivion [if it weren't for 9/11, this election would already be long over, and the GOP marginalized, while this "war bounce" will NOT last forever]). Consider that Bush is running against Dukakis' old LTGOV and a borderline communist sympathizer (right up there with Hanoi Jane) -- and he can only generate a dead heat? PATHETIC> Reagan, even Goldwater, would be running away with this election. If the GOP (state and local levels) had any spark and organizational talent this race would be long over.
On the Boston Common I met an MIT grad from China involved in a protest of America's "free hand" given to Communist "state terrorists" in China say how much he admired Reagan, and wondered whatever happened to the GOP. I had to tell him the sad truth, the Republican revolutions of 1980 and 1994 were history, because the party had been taken over by self-satisfied money-grubbing parisites who don't even know what they stand FOR, let alone AGAINST.