The nation needs more vigilance on the part of its citizens. But it could do with fewer vigils — you know, those odd, ad hoc gatherings outside places such as Michael Jackson’s courthouse and Terri Schiavo’s hospice. Don’t these people have jobs and responsibilities? Or is there something the rest of us are missing by having a life, rather than loitering pointlessly on the fringes of someone else’s?
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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Since you people started this damn blog, I’m starting to feel like I don’t have a life ! Curse Lou Heldman, but I’m hooked -line & sinker! (that’s an old Kansas saying) -
I agree with Rhonda Holman. Viligance, yes; vigils, no. Vigils tend to be peopled with radicals with a no-compromise mindset. They serve only to further increase the division between the American people. Viligance, on the other hand, helps the process of democracy. We need to make our elected officials at all levels more accountable. We can’t influence what’s going on if we’re not informed about what’s going on. Then responsible action can keep those who represent us more informed about OUR positions. The key to action-after-viligance is an open mind to all points of view, not a narrow-minded set-in-concrete mindsets as exampled by vigils.
I always thought those people were paid actors to promote injustice within whatever trial/event that was going on.