If only, huh?
With "profiling laws" going into effect, 9-1-1 calls being edited, and knock-knock joke-fueled boycotts at an all-time high in America, we are paralyzed on our front lawns, cell phones in hand, cautious to call the police due to something we deem suspicious because we know we'll have to answer as to WHY we thought it suspicious in the first place. Um....maybe because I've lived on this street for 20 years, never saw this group of young men and women before, and they were coming out from behind a neighbor's house who I happen to know is a senior and living alone? Isn't that enough?
"If you see something say something" is a pipe dream. The Q&A that will come your way will make you regret saying something in the first place. Besides that, thousands of Americans would just think it a segment of ABC's "What Would You Do?" laying in wait.
There is so much talk of the founding fathers these days. I say look to the founding fathers of comedy, to the guys who did not tiptoe around political or social discourse, from The Three Stooges (who took on Hitler long before Chaplin) to Mel Brooks to the late Sam Kinison. But political satire is on the endangered species list.
Or is it?
