Um, hello?

This whole kerfuffle started with a call to Greek style protests which were riots that killed people and destroyed property over government benefits.

Why are Americans such wusses? Threaten the Greeks with job losses and benefit cuts and they tie up Athens, but take away Americans’ jobs, 401(k)s, even their homes, and they pretty much roll over. Tell British students that their tuition is about to go up and they take to the streets; American students just amp up their doses of Prozac.

For the most part, Americans don’t depend on their government to give them jobs and cushy unemployment and retirement packages, they just want the government to create an atmosphere that encourages job growth and curtail the excesses of the capitalist system, creating a fair playing field. And when the people felt the government didn’t do that, there were protests. You may remember the whole Tea Party thing.

Also, the United States government has never paid for American students tuition, they expect to have to pay it on their own. Unlike British students who were horrified their subsidized ride was going to triple to £9000 ($14,000) and went forth to destroy property, throw flares and billiard balls, and attacking the royals. Why would American students risk life and limb in riots over stuff that the government has never been responsible for?

When a congresswoman can be shot in a parking lot and a professor who falls short of Glenn Beck’s standards of political correctness can be, however anonymously, targeted for execution, we have moved well beyond democracy — to a tyranny of the heavily armed.

Nice juxtaposition. The certifiably insane wacko that actually shot a congresswoman and internet tough guys who shoot off their mouths, they’re all the same.

Did she not want the people to rise up and let their voices be heard, by violent means if necessary, just a couple paragraphs ago? Mixed messages there. Unless she’s saying that it matters whether people die from trampling and Molotov cocktails or gunshot wounds.

*I do not condone threatening people on the internet (or in person). People who do that are idiots and should be shot in the face.

**no really, don’t threaten people over the internet. It makes you look stupid.