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Just a quick note to be difficult here, and to run the risk of getting arrested.  It seems to me that there is a fair amount of opposition to the president’s plans to increase troop levels in Iraq.  Does it seem that way to you?  And there seems to me to be a burgeoning class of the angry, of vehement antipathy for the commander in chief.

There is a vast gulf between the level of fury in words and actions though.  For example, you don’t have to go far to hear or read the claims that Bush and the neo-cons have ruined the country (or the world).  The correlative actions taken are the wearing of a Che Guevara t-shirt or a recitation of the familiar sounding bumper sticker  mantra, “somewhere in Texas a village is missing its idiot.”

In Brookline I once saw t-shirts for sale in a trendy shop with the word “Dissident” on them.  I bought one for my friend Jose Padilla in SuperMax.

For all the communal bluster, not one person has ever taken me aside, and suggested that something needs to be done.  Content that Nancy Pelosi means we are once again a peaceful nation, despite troop surges and emerging proxy wars, you will never hear around here suggestions that it is time to overthrow the government.

Maybe the reason for this is simple fear and cowardice, or maybe it is because our “right to bear arms” is no longer anywhere near commensurate with the government’s.  This needs to be changed so that the government can once again be accountable.  Your average citizen, with his out of date out of date semi-automatic AK-47, is no match for an F-18.

I’m just saying…