Ok, I've been reading the diaries filled with outrage over the hate filled events over the last few days featuring John McCain and Sarah Palin.
The outrage is legitimate. This is scary stuff especially when members of the crowd are shouting out calls for murder and accusations of Obama being a terrorist.
Outrage by itself does us little good though other than providing a sense of shared experience from the fear and anger it produces in us.
I think I have a plan that can actually use this tactic against them.
I'm calling on anyone that can to start attending any McCain or Palin rally in your area.
Despite the fact that it will slightly swell the crowd size and make it appear to some that these idiots are capable of drawing more than they should, I think it's time we infiltrated these gatherings and faced the beast in the eye.
I'm not calling for people to go in wearing their Obama buttons and t-shirts and carrying signs protesting the message. I think we should get in there and blend in even if it means biting our lip and cheering along with the nasty crowd.
What makes this worthwhile though is that every last one of us that attends these things needs to be armed with a video camera. If any of have the ability to hide cameras all the better.
Find the worst of the wingnuts and gravitate towards them. If you can get behind them do so so that you appear to be filming the candidate and speakers but the nuts are on screen. Obviously if you can capture their full face all the better. My guess is the crazies are going to be easy to spot. They'll be carrying hateful signs, dressed in military garb. The eyes will probably be a giveaway if you have a good sense for that.
If someone shouts "Kill him" and are referring to a Presidential candidate, they are guilty of a federal crime and your video can be used as evidence. If they are merely shouting First Amendment protected hate speech, the video can be sent to news organizations or Youtube to get the image out to Americans who will be repulsed by this.
Now this is somewhat dangerous work. These people can be crazy when in a mob setting. I'd advise you to not go alone and if you don't have the acting ability to pull off fitting in, you might want to avoid this.
These next few weeks are going to be a war. Our biggest weapon is not turning into the people we see on the other side but instead using our superior intelligence and strength of conviction for the truth and our desire to once again live in an ethical nation.
Let's turn the spotlight onto these cockroaches.