My run-in with a Fundy today - Democratic Underground

Freedom_from_Chains

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Sun Jun-11-06 07:22 PM
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My run-in with a Fundy today

This morning my wife and I had to run my daughter down to the southern part of the state for her first summer camp. On the way back I happened to notice a sign on the road that said "New Adult Superstore - Next Exit." So I asked the wife if she wanted to stop and see what they had and she said sure, she's an adventurous gal, so I pulled off the exit.

When we got across the interstate their was a group of guys setup in front of the entrance of the store with cameras and were taking pictures of people entering and leaving the place. The had big signs setup saying that truck drivers pictures would be taken and that their company would be notified that they had stopped here. I said to myself that I don't care what these red-necks are doing but it seriously aggravated my wife as we passed through their line and went into the store.

But the more I thought about it the more it aggravated me and of course that was what everyone in the store was talking about. The clerk said they didn't want the store to be their and they, the owners, had put up the wood fence yesterday but these yahoos were climbing up on ladders to take pictures of people.

As we left the store one of them had a camera pointed at us and it dawned on me what they were actually doing, so I thought I would have a chat with them on the way out. When I got to the entrance I rolled my window down and one of them had a movie camera on me so I said to him, "Hey, how you all doing today." He said, "Great," so I asked him, "Don't you boys have jobs or family's or something that you should be taking care of today," and he replies, "that's what he is doing, taking care of his family." "How are you taking care of your family being out here," I asked. He says, " Did I know that rape and child molestation goes up 40% in locations where porn stores go into?" I told him that those figures are B.S. He says," Oh, yeah, that's what the police reports say and he should know because he works for the victims advocates department or something" I reply, "I don't care whose figures they are they are B.S. and people have been trying to sell that BS for over 40 years with no success."

I then went on to tell he that," what you guys are doing out here is trying to intimidated people to get your way, and that my friend is un-American." I hit the power window and drove off. I could hear him shouting my license plate number to one of the other guys, like that was going to bother me or something, and thought to myself how pathetic.

But as I thought about it while I was driving away, that is what fundies are about, intimidating people to get their way and there comes a time, when reason has failed, that we have to get up in their face and let them know that isn't going to work. It is no different than dealing with the schoolyard bully. Unfortunately, we are getting to a point in this country that we all are going to have to be willing to stand up to them and be willing to do whatever it takes to stop the spread of their cancer in this country and let them know we will not be intimidated out of our freedoms.

FFC