There was a woman arrested on April 22nd, 2020 in Meridian Idaho for allowing her children to play in the local park. Sara Brady, 40, was arrested and charged with one count of misdemeanor trespassing. She was handcuffed in front of her children and taken to jail. Maybe her intent was to protest the parks closure due to the Covid-19 crisis, or perhaps that was her home-school civics class. We may only imagine that they were studying the founding of the US, and the onerous restrictions the British were placing on the colonists. It was Benjamin Franklin, (one of the founding fathers of the America as we used to know it), who stated “Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)” Whatever the reason for that family to be in that park on that day, we submit is irrelevant. It was a public park that would have been open during “normal” hours, and we would defend her right to be there with her children before any court whether or not we agreed with her reason for being there in the first place.
Constant Criticisms
#NEVERTRUMPERS #ARMCHAIRQUARTERBACKS
Some things are so very difficult to accomplish, that so few have ever tried… and even fewer have ever succeeded. Batting 300 for a season, throwing a perfect game, driving in the Daytona 500 and then winning, bowling a 300 game, scoring a perfect 10 on the high bars, winning a gold medal in ANY Olympic event, competing in a Superbowl at all, much less throwing the winning touchdown with 30 seconds left to play. We get it. We get how difficult it actually is do these very things, and so many more, yet we sit back in our comfortable arm chairs, recline in our Lazy-boy rocker, or even in mid-day have yet to get off the couch while watching TV… and criticize the actions of these very players/participants that are striving to achieve excellence in all these events day in and day out. OH YEAH we could have done that or we could do it better, they are not trying hard enough, they have lost all concentration, or any litany of other excuses we can think of for someone not able to achieve our own estimation of perfection. Listen, we get how easy it is to sit back and criticize someone who is attempting to do something. Something that we could never in our own wildest imagination accomplish on our own, yet we know exactly how someone else should do it and then exactly why they failed when they do not succeed. So easy a baby could have done it.. yet you never see babies run for 2,000 Yds., or throw for over 5,200 Yds. in a season.