Howardism: Sidewalk Messages

Sidewalk Messages

Sidewalk Chalk Message At breakfast the other morning, a friend mentioned a quote (perhaps a bumper sticker) that he heard that really stuck with me.

So, I had to inscribe it in chalk on my cement in front of my home:

Fear cannot run this country

When my sister came by this afternoon and saw my message, she mentioned another one that she had heard … which soon after ended up on another sidewalk up the street from me:

If you can read this, you're not the President.

I need some more, since when the rainy season descends, I'll get to replace these messages regularly. I was reading about the RNC protests in NYC in the Utne Reader, and got these:

Bush did what Osama could not. He united the world against us
Dick Cheney before Cheney dicks you.
Draft the Bush twins
Would Jesus strike 'preemptively?' NO!
Republicans cause cancer
Halliburton Über Alles
Stop Mad Cowboy Disease
Emissions Accomplished

If you have some more fodder for my exercise of my Free Speech rights (which will probably be taken away here if things don't change)… leave me a comment. Thanks.

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	2014, Howard Abrams Some rights reserved	Originally written on 9 July 2004. Updated on 8 February 2014.