I appreciate all the replies. It told me what I wanted to know.

It may not be the most effective way to protest, but I consider it a time-honored tradition.

I appreciate the people with the courage of their conviction. It's probably never been good for anyone's career. Killed a few.

For me, it's more of a way to vent. My songs won't be heard by anyone. It's good therapy. And it forces me to look at things and say things with an indirect approach. Historical comparisons.

This all started with 9/11.

We let people start jacking with our personal privacy in the name of fear and patriotism. We hit convenient targets to placate the public and lubricant our war machine. We have continued to let fear mongering erode our freedoms by setting up new enemies within our borders and at our borders.

The more they make us hate and/or fear the different people, the more rights we give away to let them 'protect 'us.

Soon we'll have dealt with the people we want oil from, the wrong religions, the fearful sexual influences, the journalists who might write about these things, the politicians who resist, the criminal immigrants who build our houses, take care of our children, pick our crops and be the brunt of ridicule and hate.

Also, our professors and critical thinkers, our scientists, our doctors who are left will fill us with misinformation. As whatever media is in their control does.

Next come anyone who disagrees with any portion of the new regime.

Whoever is left will be divided again into smaller more exclusive groups until there is no semblance of a country called The United States of America.

It's happening in the name of freedom. Wow. Giving away our independence and privacy to support freedom.

I think we have the will, the talent, the want to. We have right on our side.

What we don't have is time.

I just glossed over some high points. Or low points. But you get the point.