This past Thursday, 12/15/05, local talk-radio icon Lars Larson was discussing the threats of vandalism and destruction and violence to a seemingly innocent and simple desire to show some "true meaning of Christmas" by having a cross up at Pioneer Square in Downtown Portland. One of the many callers supporting his efforts was a postal carrier who was told that (after 20 years of doing so...) could not wear a Santa hat while doing his route. Here's one of the things that we can do as citizens...as members of our society...and that is to voice our opinion...and that's what I did to the USPS, telling them of my displeasure with that incident. Bad advertising for the USPS...and that if this is how they were going to be, I can choose not to use there services and help them along their way to extinction that much sooner, by increasing my use of email, on-line bill-pay and FedEx/USPS...for personal and business...and I told them so. Will it do any good. Not by myself...but if more people start voicing their opinions...to the USPS...to the state and local governments...to businesses. And the most effective way to voice an opinion and get some notice and results is: en-masse...volume...quantity. We as citizens have to figure out how to organize and get our voices heard via coordinated efforts. Only then will we be able to affect our society in the manner that is needed. We live in drastic times, and that requires drastic measures...without stooping to the lying, cheating, stealing and theats of the liberals who are trying to bring socialism to our country...at any cost.