Unless the place that you call home is a cave, mountaintop, fallout shelter, or a little-known burg called Reality, you are undoubtedly aware that city and state police are overwhelmed by the mass lawlessness that has broken out across the nation.
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National Guard troops have been called upon to assist in containing the melee -- hundreds of thousands of children openly practicing their faith on public land.  Even the makeshift internment camp set up in the old Zody's building is packed standing-room-only with detainees.
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Yes, this was See You At The Pole Day, an annual event in which school children and teenagers meet at the school flagpole for an exercise in prayer.
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The story that I have told, of course, is entirely fictitious.  At SYATP events across America, children openly practiced their faith today in complete freedom and without harassment by authorities.
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This peaceful reality is difficult to square with the Religious Right's incessant paranoid whinings about "people not being allowed to practice their faith out in the open."  It sure doesn't reconcile very well with the siege mentality that they paint, of liberal and civil liberties groups descending upon practicing Christians to take their religious freedoms away.
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So, the next time you hear the paranoid rantings of, say, Pat Robertson or James Dobson, just remember today:  See You At The Pole.
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Or, See You At The Siege That Never Was.
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