As per the premiere post, are you better off?


Honestly yes.

My good Republican neighbors have stopped calling and mailing authorities annoymously the 4 branches of goverment that willingly accept unsubstantiated accusations which amounted to :
2 IRS investigations,
2 social service investigations,
2 police investigations (for using a duly authorized water meter on a hydrant to fill a pool)
2 State Tax investigations and 2 years running having my right to vote removed due to an accusation that I did not live at my address... PER YEAR !!!
> The other stuff they did was also costly but non official.

Having to respond to these unsubstantiated annonymous accusations could cost between2 to $4,000 per year for lawyers.

Now that people here no longer feel strongly that questioning the Bush administration policies is no longer blasphemy or a crime of treason or merely being unpatriotic, these attacks have stopped.
The power they once felt to punish the non believers has diminished. Its as if they were required to hand in thier arm bands.
They may still revel in the glory days and feel their heart quicken to the beat of tea baggers but at least they are leaving me out of thier plans of vengence.


PS
when I say neighbors, the conservative Christians we bought the house from were both IRS agents and remained in contact with my current neighbors. I assume the rest was done with rumor, amplification of those rumors and a concerted effort to punish my family for whatever those rumors purported. (such as saying Rush Limbaugh is a big fat liar) The support the troops for God and country crowd, are in it for the long run I am sure but they are a bit less confident in the current climate to attack us, even in the most cowardly ways.



I have to say we are better off simply in the sense we are left alone.