Politics is Personal

Barbara Hollingsworth writes:

When did demonstrating at the private homes of politicians or corporate executives become an acceptable way to voice one’s political opinions?

Nearly two dozen activists from DC Vote swarmed House Speaker John Boehner’s Capitol Hill residence at 7:30 Thursday morning, chanting “Don’t tread of D.C.” and “No taxation without representation” to protest congressional “meddling” in the District’s local affairs, in particular a House continuing budget resolution that would cut $80 million in federal payments and prohibit the city from using local funds to pay for needle exchange programs and abortions.

To answer the question: Demonstrating at the private homes of corrupt political whores and their paymasters becomes an acceptable act of political protest when the government stops representing the people, which is the case in America.

At the end of the article, she says:

Somebody better tell these yahoos that private homes are off-limits, and to stop making it personal.

Stop making it personal? Why not? More than 4,000 soldiers have died for wars based on lies. Thousands of families have lost their homes because the Congress is not willing to fight the banks that blew up the economy. And on and on. The betrayal of the American people is evident everywhere you look. I think politics is very personal. It is about life and death. And it is perfectly legitimate for people to express dissent in whatever peaceful way they can when their demands are not being met by the government.

The proper channels to express dissent have been closed shut by the masked traitors and war criminals in Washington. Civil disobedience, protesting in front of the homes of self-serving politicians and political elites, and large-scale protests are not off-limits.