I was drinking a cup of coffee this morning and half watching Robin & Company on CNN when the screams of a college student rattled my sleepy haze. “Don’t tase me…please someone help…what have I done…what have I done wrong?” Queue the sound of flesh being zapped and the young man’s screams quickly follow. This was a Q&A with John Kerry gone wrong.
The student asked Kerry why he didn’t try to impeach Bush and questioned the “Skull and Bones” secret society. He went on too long, perhaps was a little too passionate – demanding answers for things we all want to know. Who doesn’t want to scream at our government, god forbid someone actually does!
He was a kid with a mic, not a gun. A gang of cops pulled him from the microphone, and began to arrest him. The student protested and claimed he would just leave if they let him go. John Kerry made a joke. They tasered him.
My gentleman lover, sitting beside me over coffee, shrugged and said he was resisting arrest. Besides a huge burning desire to slap him into the now militant reality of our future, I simply asked him: Arrested for what? Not playing nice?
Where oh where has freedom of speech gone?
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Noelle dEstries
Noelle d'Estries, an early GO employee who took on the varied roles of Community Manager, green celebrity blogger, and more. She currently runs worstcookever.com GO entered Noelle's life in February 2007 while she was burning tires in her backyard. A phone call from the green gods at GO, burnt out the fires. Now, Noelle happily wears her GO sweatshirt while eating organic veggies and asking for paper, not plastic. A regular at the local farmer's market, Noelle shuns raking leaves and lawn maintenance, while making gourmet foods constantly. When not staring at her computer screen, she spends time with her equally attractive dog, Tessa, cat, Tim and lover Paul. She currently holds all three point records at RIT and could eat avocados and drink wine for the rest of her life.
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