Reply #21: Alternet Article on Freeway Blogger.

[JohnyCanuck]

"The first signs I put up were after the election of 2000. I had been taught as a child that democracy is a place where you count the votes, and when I saw that was not going to happen, I felt cheated," he says in a phone interview.

"The reason I've done this is not because I'm consumed with a hatred of Bush or flaming with political passions," he points out. "The men who founded this country gave us the first amendment as a way of making sure that democracy stayed alive and vibrant. The reason they gave each of us the right to speak out was to sound the alarm if we felt our country or democracy was in danger."

Freeway Blogger is sounding that alarm by encouraging a nationwide sign-posting extravaganza called the "National Freeway Free Speech Day: Driving America to Think" on Oct. 13. The date coincides with the third and final presidential debate.

"I'm getting swamped with emails from people all over the country saying they're going to participate. I really believe there will be a thousand of us by the 13th." Through his website, he has garnered commitments from nearly 700 people to put up signs in 175 cities across 45 states. His web site advises that laws vary from state to state, and taunts, "But you'll have to catch us first."

www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20141/