Moreover, I spy an opportunity to merge the old Renaissance Faire concept with the Patriot Day concept. Revolutionary Faires would rattle the cages of the Powers That Belong In Jail, certainly, but who could object to Colonial Faires or Patriot Faires?
Feeling insecure, vulnerable, frightened and demoralized is contagious.
Feeling confident, competent, focused and empowered is at least as contagious.
PATRIOT FAIRE, singular.
I DO apprehend the following impediments:
1.) It can't be done.
2.) It'll never happen.
3.) It's never been done that way.
4.) We've always done it this way.
5.) It's impossible.
6.) You can't fight City Hall.
7.) They won't let you.
8.) We just can't, that's why.
9.) Because I said so.
10.) You're dreaming.
It's for true. I confess. I DO have a dream.
I believe I do not HAVE TO live the way "They" are dictating that I "should" and now that I "must." I believe I can Just Say No. My supposition is infinitely more likely to be correct if millions of Americans join me in declining to be ceaselessly ordered about and relentlessly fined.
Beyond the Ten Why Not's that are tantamount to COLLECTIVE DEFEATISM, I see NO reason that a full-blown, people-drive-from-miles-around Patriot Faire could not be pulled together to international renown over Memorial Day weekend in one of the California counties of the Jefferson State Project.
I specify one of the California counties because it would bring into magnificent relief how little the Far North of California has in common with the rest of the corrupted and bankrupted state.
The new millennium's Woodstock.
Period dress. Food stalls with Colonial fare. Handicrafts. Riflery . . . with Trained people as the "booth" operators. Detested public domain name look-alikes and a dunk tank, three balls for a dollar.
It's a Natural. It's a Moneymaker. Expose them for the monopolistic and controlling Fear Mongers that they are, if those with the "power" to do so will deny "permits." Offer ten percent of gross ticket sales to Arnold Schwarzenegger and oh-so-broke Sacramento. Let's Make A Deal meets The Rifleman, Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger and Bonanza.
How The West Was Won, with a little bit of F Troop . . . what's Life, without comedy?
Entertainment CAN be highly educational. I give you the Playmobil plastic security x-ray checkpoint with uniformed, gunless guard.
Who DOESN'T want to be able to defend themselves and their family if push comes to shove? WHEN push comes to shove, at the rate that the people who are suggesting you surrender your arms are playing the game.
The men and women who have long been conscious, long been armed, long been ready, and who are continually in training will still BE the inner circle that they ARE. To be or not to be? They already BE. Thank God. In a true emergency, a Few rise up and bark orders, yes? They are later called Heroes.
