Mr. Johnston has taught in schools on two continents (I was a student of his on the socialist continent many years ago) and he knows history and government. It seems that many americans (including conservatives) who have never lived outside of the US have the “frog in boiling pot” syndrome, and don’t really see what is going on in our grand Land of the Free.

Mr. Johnston hates Communism and Socialism with a passion. It is ironic the legal company he finds himself with at this juncture.

A key issue here is disclosure. According to the story, the “business” would not refund his seasonal ticket after he discovered that these searches are mandatory. So, aside from some media announcement, the question is whether the stadium is fully disclosing this new policy to everyone purchasing tickets.

Another point – is it true that these searches are only from the waist up? If that is the case, it is one of the most idiotic policies I, as a US military veteran, have ever heard of and I have to agree with the statement by the ACLU spokesperson that “we are no safer, and a lot less free”. What’s that? The “Shoe-bomber”? If this is the case, it is a token, incomplete, half-hearted attempt to protect while doubling the publics inconvenience (and turning up the heat on that pot that the frog is in).

I believe a genuine, Constitutional Conservative would say (perhaps minus the expletives), “To h*** with across the board searches of the public, to h*** with being PC, we are going to go by the evidence, we are going to profile, and we are going to go on the advance and hunt down every terrorist and use whatever force necessary to win this war” – instead of going paranoid, suspecting every innocent neighbor and friend, searching even our own pockets for possible threats.

I’ve lived on three continents and I am amazed at the lack of ethical and constitutional knowledge and sense that exists now in America. Sense – it’s not so common anymore. There truly has been a “Dumbing down of America” even in the “conservative Christian” or “religious right” circles.

If we are going to maintain a Land of the Free, it will take more than just defeating (or eliminating) the American Communist Legal Union(ACLU), the People for the American Way, and the NEA’s (National Education Association and National Endowment for the Arts). We have to educate people in right thinking, logic, morality, ethics, honor and integrity.
We must both hate what is evil and love and promote what is good.

So many, including among us conservatives, just latch onto a spokesman or hero and forget to think independently. Two radio talking heads say, “I’m a conservative before I am a Republican”. I hope most conservatives think like that. The solutions are conservative, constitutional ones, not necessarily Republican.

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