Just hate it when my message gets hijacked and pushed off-center.

Folks, SOMEBODY should be angry.

Oh, gosh, it's probably time for somebody to call DHS and report my "anger" Isn't that what we're learning to do?

We should always respond according to our principles, I simply dislike it when fear and avoidance are disguised as principles, especially when it's cloaked in "virtue".

The experiment wasn't intentional, it just started happening and I saw no reason to not continue it.

It's also true that my external appearance doesn't generally encourage people to fear me. White(ish) guy, short hair, older NOT wearing camo clothing, or an NRA hat, or an ugly-ass ponytail with full beard with a quote from Adolph Hitler on his t-shirt, no keyring held onto my belt by a dog collar chain or any other cultural indicator that I'm a "gun totin' redneck who is PROBABLY a nazi and kicker of kittens. It was as much a test of what signals set people off, as it was of their observational skills and bias. I might try it with a "Palin in 2012" t-shirt, that should do it.

The next time I do it, probably, I will plan it better (or maybe not).

Ultimately my point is that even a simply exercise in a right enumerated in the Bill of Rights, will draw detractors who will almost always explain why I was stupid without actually calling me stupid, simple inference, and almost ALWAYS do it to make them seem wiser (somehow).

Hence, "coward"

Argument doesn't need to be about anger, and argument that seems to be more virtriolic isn't necessarily expressing anger either. Come to think of it, the whole use of the word "anger" has become perjorative to the extreme. Just saying it conjures images of Charlie Sheen beating up another woman...