Here's My Sign, Here's My Slogan, Ignore Me Now, Cuz I'm a Moron

Human beings are filled with rage. It amazes me how people are not content to keep their anger to themselves, but must enter into the world with signs and slogans to spread their hatred with the masses. Not a day goes by that you don’t find news of a picketing group somewhere. Is it really necessary to make such fools of yourselves, simply because something displeases you? Well you know what? You people make me angry and I feel like posting about it. Call me a hypocrite if you like, but at least when I express my feelings here, people have the opportunity to leave my blog if they don’t agree with what I say. When you stand in the streets, blocking paths and shouting at passersby, people have little way of avoiding you.

One of the things I find most irritating is when people use religion in an attempt to validate their malice toward a particular subject. In reality, all you are doing is using religion as a shield to hide your ignorance. A good example of this is the religious outcry heard in response to the release of the Harry Potter books and movies. Uneducated morons picketed and even got these books banned in some places because they are about witches and wizards. Really? Is this the 16th century? Had any of these people actually read the books? Of course not! The Harry Potter series, at its core, is a story of good triumphing over evil. Is that really what these religious zealots should be fighting to stop? For the first time in generations, America’s youth could be seen out in the world with books in their hands. Harry Potter introduced kids to the joys of reading, yet religious bigots wanted these fantastical tales off their shelves.

Picketer tactics are to pester and annoy until someone gives in to them, or forcefully drives them off. Is this really the best means to an end? Obnoxious complaints don’t get real results. You haven’t changed any minds. Instead, people give in to your outrageous demands just to make you go away. Picketers are like flies, nothing more than common pests. Money is thrown at them or decisions are made simply to swat them away.

There is enough anger and sadness in the world without everyone running to the streets with their signs when they disagree with something. In the long run these people have accomplished nothing. Maybe they’ll get what they want for now, but no opinions have been changed. How much harm has been done during these idiotic crusades for an empty victory?