Folks, I don't have the balls to do it.

I live in Richfield Ohio, site of W's Labor Day get-together.

I was considering infiltrating the GOP post-coitus barbecue instead of being in the Free Speech zone "for my own safety". The logistics of doing so was somewhat troubling, but manageable.

First, I would have to go get the ticket from the Summit County GOP headquarters office in Downtown Akron. No problem, they would be one of the few offices open in Akron from 10am-6pm today. Parking at 10am would have been similar to that if the Rapture had occurred at the time that the truly faithful would be sitting at home or walking the dog.

But then, I fear, I would have to reveal my real name (showing ID) to get the ticket. The likely event would be that these people wouldn't be intelligent enough to have my name in their local database as pulled from the Akron Beacon Journal Voice of the People ("letters to the editor"). If they did, I would have said that I was doing so to keep the opposition off guard. Maintaining the straight face would have been kinda hard, but possible.

Monday, as probably with all of the events where only Bush-lovers show up to fawn over their God, the parking for the attendees was well away from the actual event. Parking is in a church on the main road, and a bus would take the true believers to the park grounds. This event is over four miles away from my house, so walking to the event is unlikely, but not impossible.

Once at the event, if I chose to leave prior to the okay (maybe this might not be a problem), I would have to walk all the way back to my car, probably over half a mile away. I wouldn't trust that the shuttle would be there. I can do it, I am a healthy person who likes to walk around.

No, the point in which the onions creep back up into their undescended state is at the actual BBQ. I feel that I could not keep my anger held in check long enough to infiltrate these idjits and get good footage. I think that I would be "outed" and run out, if not "held" for questioning (read: assaulted for actually having a brain - a problem I had faced since fourth grade).

I don't believe that I can just hang up my common sense/intelligence and swallow the emissions that spew from the vocal genitalia of the "true believers".

I admit it, unlike the installed gung-ho non-Vietnam-wartime flyboy. I am a coward.

Have mercy on me.

I am going to have to settle for the detainment camp, or "free speech zone" as they refer to it.

...you come join other DUers at the protest, and we'll be loud together!