Paint and Peace

1/28/07
Being quite familiar with the ilk of protesters, especially anti-war, anti-violence protesters, I was very surprised to learn that some of them painted on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Somehow, that doesn't seem to be congruent with the nature of a peace demonstration, but of course, it is what it is. Back in a former time, a litle paint would have been hardly noticed in the general mayhem of the anti-Vietnam movement.

We know that however many it was who spread paint on Sunday, it was a small and feeble minority of those present. And, I was pleased to read that the Capitol functionaries say the paint was easily cleaned up, so the graffiti were not permanent. Those who want to make similar statements should recall, that when they paint "This is our house," that it is my house, too, and in fact belongs to the whole country, and please treat it accordingly.

NEVERTHELESS, whatever little dirt may have been put on the Capitol by a few demonstrators this weekend, it is nothing compared to the filth and degradation heaped upon that honored institution in the past few years by some of its legal occupants, like Ney and Foley and Cunningham and Delay. It will take more than a janitor to clean up that damn stinking mess.

Furthermore, we in the Arboretum think the war should be stopped right now!
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