It seems to me that virtually any opportunity for celebration quickly becomes some twisted sort of justification to get rowdy, behave badly, destroy people's personal property, and just generally demonstrate that certain pea-brained members of our society just love to use "freedom" as a basis for grotesque and disruptive behavior without ever giving the slightest thought to the concept of responsibility that is the logical flipside of freedom.
Two years ago on the Fourth of July, some of my "neighbors" where I lived (at that time) could hardly wait to begin lighting huge numbers of firecrackers, cherry bombs, and other assorted explosive symbols of "their" constitutionally protected American freedoms. And, as I went outside to try and see why everything was so unbelievably LOUD, I discovered that some of these "neighbors" a few homes away were celebrating their citizenship as loudly as possible!
Ah freedom! And, why do so many Archie Bunker types practice their "freedoms" so grotesquely? There were empty beer cans flying through the air powered by fire crackers while roman candles whizzed upward into overhead trees where they ricocheted back onto the pavement just feet away from the inebriated "patriots." All the while, one of the younger pups in this human pack was vomiting on his shoes from too much of something or other!
Somehow I had a distinct feeling that these raucously proud citizens also dodge jury duty at all costs, don't ever bother to visit a voting machine, and wouldn't know how to contact their congressman if their life depended on it. Yet, these patriot wanna-bees really relish this yearly opportunity to demonstrate their "God-given right" to behave grotesquely without the slightest hint of embarrassment.
E PLURIBUS VOMITUM!
