WAKE UP!!! As the quite simple Rage Against the Machine lyric goes, WAKE UP!!! People we are being too complacent. This is not right, I don't CARE what any of you right-wingnuts say, this is not right!

Daily Kos :: Suppressing free speech

"the Secret Service called three everyday people into their offices to discuss why we were kicked out of a presidential event in Denver last week where Bush promoted his plan to privatize Social Security...

...three people who had personally picked up tickets from Republican Congressman Bob Beauprez's office and went to a presidential event. But as we entered, we were told that we had been 'ID'ed' and were warned that any disruption would get us arrested.

After being seated in the audience we were forcibly removed before the President arrived, even though we had not been disruptive. We were shocked when told that this presidential event was a 'private event' and were commanded to leave....

...The Secret Service revealed that we were 'ID'ed' when local Republican staffers saw a bumper sticker on the car we drove which said 'No More Blood For Oil.'...

...The Secret Service also revealed that ticket distribution and staffing of the Social Security event was run by the local Republican Party....

...After allowing taxpayers to finance his privatization events (let's call them what they really are after all,) and after using the White House communications apparatus to set them up, Bush is privatizing the ticket distribution and security staffing at his events to the Republican Party."

Ok so for all who don't see the problem here, let me make this clear. What is happening here is Democrats are being singled out and basically thrown out of presidential PUBLIC events paid for by the TAXPAYERS, who last time I checked were NOT solely Republican.

This is not a presidential campaign event, which even then I don't think people should be kept out of, but I can almost understand their view. BUT to do this for a presidential visit to tout a proposed program is W-R-O-N-G.

Man oh man! If this were a Democratic administration and Republicans were thrown out of a presidential event on some social program for no reason, I would fell EXACTLY the same way. So NO this is not a partisan attack, this is simply a scary slide I am seeing our country going in, and more disturbing, no one seems to care.

We either accept the status quo as it exists today, or we take a stand and say, enough is enough, and stop this tide from eroding our freedoms.

WAKE UP!!!