Via Witchvox:
This is America today. This is the country that we live in. This, this, this is where you live. There's no sense denying it. You can't change anything until you wake up and decide to face that with which you are actually dealing. You may have grown up believing that you lived in a mythical country called "America." You may wish that you actually lived there. But you don't. Here, here, here is where you really woke up this morning:
A Colorado Springs woman who sported a button that read: "Grandmothers for Peace" as she cast her ballot early this week said she was pitched from the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder's Office.
Election officials said 63-year-old Rita Ague violated a law against campaigning within 100 feet of a polling place when she tried to vote Monday.
The county's acting director of the election department said it's the law. No one is allowed to wear anything political at a polling place.
Now that we know where we really are, maybe we can find a map to help us get out of here. But we're never going to get out of here pretending that we live somewhere else. And it doesn't matter if the only map we've got is a map of someplace else. That's not going to help us here.
2 comments:
So few people even wear political buttons nowadays, but I have a vague recollection of committed citizens actually wearing their little lapel pins into the voting areas. Am I misremembering?
And, since when is Peace a candidate?
She did get to vote, I hope.
jawbone
Hecate, the juxtaposition of the article with the picture is very very good. thank you.
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