Pardon the brief diary; I just got to my hotel room after a long day volunteering at Netroots Nation and learned that the John W. Pope Civitas Institute has created an online database and a "Pick the Protester" game that features each and every one of us who's been arrested in the Moral Monday/Witness Wednesday nonviolent civil-disobedience movement in North Carolina.
Yeah. We are gamepieces in a vicious online game now. For singing, praying, and holding a sign in what we in North Carolina call "The People's House," the General Assembly building.
This includes me as well as James Protzman (read his most-excellent diary) and several other DailyKos bloggers from North Carolina.
Holy shit. If you didn't believe that Art Pope, the Tea Party, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) were mean-spirited, tyrannical bullies who have no compunction about making a game out of targeting those who take a principled stand against a takeover of their government, you are just plain wrong.