TRYING TO SELL TWINKIES TO DEDICATED DIETERS

TRYING TO SELL TWINKIES TO DEDICATED DIETERS


Pretend you are a Hostess Twinkie salesman. Would you go to your neighborhood Dialysis Clinic in hopes of selling your wares? I would hope not. If you were to take your Twinkies to a Weight Watchers meeting in hopes of making a quick buck, you would likely end up with a purse slung at your noggin and a stiletto up your ass. Dieting people do not take time out of their busy schedule, and money out of their short supply to attend a meeting about losing weight only to hear “Twinkies get yer Twinkies here!” Going to either place would be poor business decisions on your part, not illegal, but definitely in poor taste. Selling Twinkies is a legitimate profession. If a dying diabetic chooses to purchase a Twinkie, or a dieter decides to cheat with one, that’s their business and they can if they want.


What if the Twinkies you are peddling are not your typical Twinkies? What if your Twinkies are made with whole grain, contain no chemicals or preservatives, are chock-full of vitamins and minerals and have no calories? What if they even contain cancer and obesity fighting properties and still taste as good as the original? The general public should be made aware of this great product! But there is a proper time and place for selling Twinkies.


I happen to be a Minnesota Vikings fan. If I go to a game to watch the Vikings play the Packers, should a Packers fan seriously attempt to dissuade me from rooting for the Vikes and become a Pack fan? Even if the Vikes suck this year and make me hate them, is a game really the best place to show me the facts and attempt to persuade me? If we were in Minnesota, he’d better watch his back because a fellow Vikings fan is going to pour his beer down it.


I am all for the First Amendment. But if a Jehovah’s Witness comes to my door attempting to proselytize me, I am going to exert my property rights and chase him away. I can’t stand on someone’s porch proclaiming the merits of supporting Ron Paul just because I have Free Speech rights if the property owner doesn’t want to listen to me. The person who owns the porch has property rights, which supersedes my right to free speech. My rights end where his property line begins, just as your rights end where my property line begins. When two Obama supporters knocked on my door over the summer I just laughed at them and said “go away.” They did.


I completely support attempts to educate people of the lying, stealing, immoral, unethical, and down-right goofy ways of politicians. But there is a time and a place for spreading the truth. Don’t grab a hornet’s nest in an attempt to teach hornets not to sting when their hive is shaken, and wonder why you were stung. That’s just stupid.


“…There is a time there for every purpose and for every work.” Ecclesiastes 3:17


If Sarah Palin has taken the money from her coffers to rent a facility, and the time from her busy schedule to hold a rally for her supporters; is it really the best place to protest her or attempt to educate her supporters regarding a matter she has chosen to ignore? If Palin has purchased the right to use a facility for a rally, she has the right to squelch dissent within the facility. Sorry if you don’t like it, but it is true. Just as I have the right to tell a JW to go away, so she does to protesters. (I understand she is likely using public funds to pay for it, as of now those funds are made available for campaigning and can be used as she chooses.)


If Palin holds a rally on the city square--that’s different. City squares, parks, sidewalks are all public places intended for gathering of the public and the First Amendment should reign. I said SHOULD reign. The caveat is; would thousands of blind supporters really listen to a handful of protesters/educators? Is it really the wisest use of time and resources? Why not go to the public square when it isn’t packed full of mind numb, blind supporters? Pass out literature or preach from your soap box when people won’t become as sharks on a chum feeding frenzy and tear you apart (literally and figuratively). Causing a scene at a rally doesn’t do any good for any good movement. A Palin rally will be packed with thousands of Palin supporters, not people expecting to be educated or learn hard-core facts. People like “Joe the Plumber”: biased, unintelligent rednecks proud of their own ignorance toward controversial truths. I personally want to know the truth, I therefore wouldn’t go to a Palin, or McCain, or Obama, or Biden, or Republican, or Democrat rally. (Besides, I have better things to do with my time, such as clip my toenails and fling them at the dog.) Die-hard supporters attend rallies not undecided voters curious to learn the truth about particular politicians.


I watched a video on www.infowars.com of a guy named Stewart from “We Are Change LA” attending a Palin rally; and the tribulation he encountered while holding up his sign which read “911 Truth Now” on one side and “NWO DOA” on the other. I am all for spreading the truth about 911 and the New World Order, I refuse to swallow the blue pill provided by the government and their cronies in the media. I also support “We Are Change” and think all chapters are great! But I wouldn’t go to a Palin rally in an attempt to educate the masses regarding truth. Not because I am down deep a coward. I just have few resources, such as time and money, and would rather spend them wiser than that. I think people should be educated regarding such things but prefer to do so in a less hostile environment. One-on-one, or in small groups, passing out literature in the public square, creating a website or writing a blog. People who want to know the truth will seek it out. Everyone else would prefer to remain willfully ignorant of truth as it makes their life less complicated.


Maybe next time, instead of spending resources on going to the rally attempting to spread the truth; purchase an ad on a billboard near the venue. Write a Letter to the Editor, or place an ad in the paper. Hold a sign up along the path to the rally where supporters will see it as they pass by. Once the supporters are at the rally it is too late, they will be hyped-up on adrenaline and blinded by admiration and rhetoric. In their hostility toward dissenters they will feed off each other with a primal pack mentality as wolves do; when the first wolf makes an attack upon a mutual enemy the others quickly follow.


Stop feeding yourselves to the wolves. Wolves are easier to handle when they are alone, they will more than likely run from you. Stop trying to fight battles you will not win. Start a small skirmish with truth as your weapon, and ignorance is “the enemy’s” only shield.