Take one side or the other: pro-ban, anti-ban; democrat, republican; gay, straight; it doesn't matter. The common denominator seems to be the intelligence of the average American (and in some cases, NOT American) paraded in front of the camera for nothing more than a sound bite - so the reporter can feel like he's investigating, in-depth, getting the 'pulse' of the people. Whatever you call it, I'm embarrassed.
But I have a couple theories:
a. They can't actually find anyone to give an intelligent comment during the day because people like that have JOBS! An interestingly simple concept, I think. When I'm at work, I can't be parading down the street available to any Joe Newsman who needs a quip for the nightly news.
b. The people they do find on the street DON'T have jobs. Okay, that's not really a second theory, it's the first restated. But I see no other major reasons for this.
Sure, second shift jobs, working mothers, etc, there are other reasons people will be out during the day; but this is, I believe, the major reason.
A prime example was the multitude of 'immigration rallies' that were held around the country this past summer. Did I have time to march the streets all day? They didn't even know what they were 'marching' for! "We're not going to work today to show what impact we immigrants have on the economy," they would say. If I said that to my boss, I would be greeted with a, "Let's see how much it effects your economy when you can't come back."
Does a job make the person? No. I don't believe so. Many people don't like their jobs, but they do them anyway; for their family, bills, just simply money. Anyone can work... okay, not anyone, but I can dream, right?
Another fine example was on about the gun ban case before the Supreme Court. A gentlemen of the darker-skinned persuasion was on the street showing off his gunshot scars that seemed to be in a number greater than any one person should have. Following the show-and-tell was a statement, obviously written by his speechwriters and revised many times about, (paraphrase) "how ending the ban would put more guns out there and there'd be anarchy" (or chaos, or wild-west shootings, or something like that).
I don't feel sorry for these people; not one bit. I do feel sorry for our great country. The complacency of the people has turned it to a place where are freedoms are slowly removed to make way for governmental control and a semi-communist state, where everyone is special and nobody should be ignored. Bullshit! Plain and simple.
Idiots like these frighten and worry me. A quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin, but was never actually uttered by him, makes a good point and should wake up those who don't get bothered by the simpletons paraded on the boob tube (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin):
"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither."
Next Point: Involuntary human sterilization
