Because the robo cops with the machine guns and the face shields were coming after them.
They had to fight. They did not have a choice to make as to whether their time was better spent going out to eat or working in the garden, or whether to fight the brown shirts on their doorstep.
There was no decision to make.
Hey.
I just saw that Rosie O'Donnell is off The View.
Wow. That tell you anything? It tells me that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney attacked their own country in order to start the war in Iraq and steal the oil.
Dick Gregory once said in Omaha, somewhere in the mid-1980s, that if you challenge them, "they will bring tanks on your ass."
When I first heard that, in about 1984, I didn't really understand what he was saying, or believe it was that bad in the United States.
It is that bad. In fact, it's probably worse.
Hey. You ever try to find a public restroom in Chicago while you are trying to get out of the city to make it to a book reading in Michigan, and you really, really have to go?
Do you know what happens, eventually?
No, I don't want to talk about it. Would you? If you were a big-time anti-war novelist on a nationwide book tour?
Well, what should we do?
Piss our pants or piss all over the floorboard in fear of the thugs in the police uniforms and government offices?
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