Friday, July 23, 2004

I have to consider myself to be an Eowyn voter, too.

I suppose a good way to describe me, actually, would be as an Eowyn voter. For those of you who aren’t rabid Tolkeinites, Eowyn is the niece of a king who’s kingdom is under attack, and she chooses to fight rather than to stay back with the women and children. She fears neither death nor pain and chooses to defy the Nazgul (big scary way-evil thing) which stands between her and her “lord and kin.” You mess with me and the people I love—I take offense to that. You stand aside and let other people mess with me and the people I love—I take offense to that too. I’m not a fan of war, I have no great desire to be a warblogger, but it is because I long for peace, true peace, that I choose to fight the war that is upon us. I choose to fight by blogging, I choose to fight by voting, and if I ever find myself in a situation where I have to physically fight for my life or for those around me, I will choose that as well. Terrorists would do well to remember the old adage, “If captured, don’t let them give you to the women.” Because we will protect ourselves and our families, and it won’t be pretty.