4th of July Hypocricy (was: OT Celebration)

On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Russ Blakeman wrote: Wow! It sounds as though that boy's parents need to get him enrolled in a tour of Ft. McHenry! ...if they know what that is, of course. It seems so strange for it to be so quiet on the 4th these days. I wonder if other parts of the US are as quiet as it is here in this suburb of Maryland. Back when I was a kid, kids used to be running around shooting off cap guns (I guess they're illegal now, thanks to the blasted tyranical politically correct politicians) and lighting firecrackersd and M80s, then, have we'd a cook-out followed by some marshmallow roasting and a watermellon seed-spitting contest/battle, which was followed later on in the evening with our own fireworks... fountains, exploding tanks, bottle-rockets, whistling rockets, and other small pyrotechnic displays such as pin-wheels, etc. :-) Of course, even back then it was marginally illegal here in Maryland; we had to either have fireworks brought back from someplace like South Carolina or else drive out west to where Maryland, Virgiana and West Virginia meet and look for small stores in Virginia just over the border that were selling the fireworks. Did you ever think about what the real reason for the personal fireworks bans might be? Most likely it's not about safety---after all sparklers, which are legal, are rather dangerous; the real reason for the bans being as follows: anything that goes boom might give people bad ideas as to what they can do, and thus make them think more vividly about the revolution, tyrannical, tax-hungry and corrupt politicians, and certain words of Thomas Jefferson about an uprising every so often to keep this a free nation. Such thoughts ought not be thunk by good little citizens, what? -- Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.net 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.net beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.