Never in my life have I been so shocked and dismayed at my country. Freedom of speech is no longer a right. Corruption and criminal acts are being undertaken to ensure a presidential candidate into his position. The worst part of it all: over half of this nation is loving it.

I'm usually very outspoken in things that matter to me. But, I don't think I've ever made a public announcement like I am now. So if you don't agree, or just don't care to listen (like most of my watchers), it won't surprise me. I would like to hear your comments, though. So stick around, this might blow your mind.

Yesterday, my car was vandalized because I exercised my freedom of speech. I saw what had happened and actually laughed out loud for a few seconds. But, the story goes on after this little smidge of humor.

I'm going to put it out there, like I did with the bumper sticker on my car, "McCain/Palin." I am voting for McCain in November. It's my right to vote, and it's my right modify a piece of my property (my car) with another piece of my property (my bumper sticker). I'm a college student, and so spending money on anything other than food or gas is using my spare change. The bumper sticker was only $2, but that $2 was all I had. I passionately support McCain, but I don't go overboard, and so I simply bought this bumper sticker. 'I support this person for president' should not insult anyone. Someone might disagree with your opinion... but you aren't directly being insulting by voicing your opinion (by just voicing in your own domain, like saying it out loud, putting up a bumper sticker on your own car, putting a sign out in your own yard, etc).

Having the freedom of speech does not mean you have the freedom of oppressively speaking. (The freedom of speech no longer exists, though, so nevermind) I walk to my car around 9am in the morning to find a wonderful little Obama sticker plastered on it. Not directly on my car, but on my McCain bumper sticker. My car is a piece of crap--I plan on using it until it dies a horrible death, so the paint job means nothing to me. If the person put the Obama sticker on my car, not on my sticker, I wouldn't care nearly as much as I do about this situation. This sticker was white and obnoxious, completely destroying the message of the dark blue McCain sticker (my support for McCain). Within the sticker, it had Obama's logo, with the field in the O. The field was rainbow colors, though, and below it: "OBAMA PRIDE." Wonderful sticker, eh? No. The sticker was poor quality, like it was printed off of an ink printer. It was paper, not vinyl. And so, when I went to try to take this sticker off, it ripped, all over. It left those half-paper/half-glue pieces all over my bumper sticker. Ever try to peel off a price tag? Yeah. I spend nearly 20 minutes trying to get all the little white remnants of that sticker off of my car, and actually couldn't do it, entirely. The message could be seen though, so I was okay. I was pissed, but I went about my business for the rest of the day.

I'm part of the College Republicans at the University of Cincinnati. I'm actually the head of advertising and I control the flyer operations. We do not put out anti-Obama propaganda, though. In all reality, we really don't put out anything political at all. We put out our flyers advertising our group, the College Republicans--when we're meeting, how to contact us, etc. Oh and, we have our logo on there (which includes the republican elephant). To put up a flyer at my college, we need approval, and approval of a flyer means it has the right to stay up on all bulletin boards until the removal date. This means that as long as I meet the guidelines, I'm allowed to have whatever I want up. That's free speech.

Exercising my freedom of speech again, however, my work was vandalized. I put together the flyer, spent some long hours doing the logo, then spent some CR money printing them (cost of 7 cents per print), spent time getting approval, spent time and more CR money getting thumbtacks and tape, and then spent how ever many hours posting them on the bulletin boards around campus.

"LOGO
COLLEGE REPUBLICANS

NEXT OPEN MEETINGS:
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15TH
1PM & 5PM, TUC 427 (location and room #)

WANT TO JOIN?
CONTACT DETAILS:
BLAHBLAH"

Does this insult anyone? I don't think so, but apparently, some people had their feelings hurt. I found one of my flyers ripped apart, into three pieces, and tacked back up where I had placed it. I also found three flyers missing from an array of bulletin boards in a trashcan, destroyed. However, Pro-Islam flyers stay up (education for ignorant Americans?). Breast Cancer Awareness flyers stay up (advertising rewards for volunteering for keeping away breast cancer, one of them being free tanning memberships..?) I pulled those flyers right out of the trashcan and put them back up, and I replaced the ripped one. Where has my freedom of speech gone? Anyone else seems to be able to say whatever they want, so why can't I?

I returned to my car last night. Guess what I found? A new damn Obama Pride sticker plastered right where the other one had been. I was pissed. I'm demonized because I don't agree with the normal, popular thing. When did it start being okay for people to hate other people so much, just for one thing?

A lady was interviewed the other day because she had received a call from an Obama Headquarters representative asking if she was voting for Obama. Her response was: 'No, I'm not voting for Obama. He voted 4 times to leave live babies to die on the hospital floor!' And she hung up. The CIA knocked on her door the next day, and started questioning her. She was like, 'Why am I being questioned?' The CIA had said that they had reports that she was plotting to assassinate Obama. That she had been quoted saying she 'wanted Obama to be left dying on a hospital floor.' It was obvious that the Obama representative knew exactly what the woman had said. Why? Because her three children, ages 5-9 repeated exactly what the mother had said.

Oh, and ACORN? Registering a 7-year old to vote? And ACORN representatives admitting that they can't actually prevent voter registration fraud in Ohio? What?

What is happening to our country? We can't speak our minds anymore if it isn't the popular thing to do, and crime is being committed right under our noses. Every time I argue for McCain, a liberal says that I'm just being racist. What the hell? If anyone's racist, it's that very same liberal who keeps pulling the race card, holding Obama's hand as walks out into the real world. I see a unqualified, inexperienced man. They see his color.