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September 26, 2004
Climate of fear
Go read this article about political intimidation. Do any partisans of either stripe out there feel this way or have you had signs destroyed, etc.? I have heard stories from old time Texas Republicans that this sort of thing used to be common decades ago, especially in the Valley area with even Democrat police officers pulling over Republicans on their way to party meetings.
Maybe its because I am in Texas, but even though I spend most of my time on a liberal college campus filled with Kerry stickers, it never crossed my mind that someone would damage my car over my W'04 sticker. That may be because half of the cars on the road here have the same sticker or a very similar one on them, unless I am on campus where my car is quite unique. Were I to still live in Southern California, I suspect I would have debated for a while, but probably put the sticker on anyway, since I do not care about my car and the bile that would build up in other drivers would be worth it.
Oh, and Dan Rather should be fired.
Posted by Pete at September 26, 2004 05:31 PM
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