“It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest.”
— Zell Miller, Republican National Convention 2004
I refuse to be intimidated by my leaders. I refuse to be cowed into believing that war is the only choice. I refuse to believe that by invading a sovereign nation without the support of the world will make my homeland safer. I refuse to don my boots and fall into lock-step with the party line. I refuse to believe that the Constitution of the United States of America is dead.
I refuse to believe that freedom comes from the end of a gun.
I refuse.