<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Why is it that when some groups protest they are called "independent thinkers" and/or "fighting for the truth"? When another group protests they are called "brownshirts" and "unamerican". emoScratch </font></p>
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">And it has not been too many years ago that Conservative states were represented with Blue and Liberal States with Red. </font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">We refer to the red states and the blue states so regularly now that the association seems long established. But only the 2000 presidential election established the linkage of blue with Democrats and red with Republicans. In earlier years, the television networks and magazine maps had reversed the association. In 1984 rival networks associated red with Democrats and blue with Republicans. The Reagan sweep of that year was called "Lake Reagan" in by somet.</font></p><h3><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">I have a great question. Has anyone actually read through the proposed healthcare bills? I have gotten half-through them and some of the stuff is startling. I don't blame some for their protest, if that is what they feel lead to do. This is America!!!</font></h3>