Waiting .....

Clifford Odets, "Waiting For Lefty" is a dialogue of a group of people gathering to strike, and in this case they are cabdrivers in New York. They all seem to be "waiting" for Lefty, who is the strike leader. Unfortunately, Lefty ends up being a victim of the upheaval and is killed. More importantly, the underlying theme is their promotion of the communist revolution, during the depression.

Now, does it not seem like every-time we are having a major problem socially or economically, the government becomes ridiculously paranoid. Look at today, we are so paranoid that we identify every middle-eastern person as a terrorist. We have all of these new found "rules" and "regulations" for our "protection". Now, the government is using these issues to  violate our own rights and privatization, i.e. the 'Patriot Act". Yea, real patriotic.