Back in the day (as in “back when this country was founded”), the politicians had to be very, very careful not to make their constituents too angry. Back during the days of the Stamp Act, if a politician was perceived to have gotten a little too… shall we say “out of touch”… with his constituents, the townsfolk had a way of dealing with them. They would start by hanging an effigy of the offending politician from a tree in the town square (such as the Liberty Tree in Boston.) Once a crowd formed, the effigy was either beaten down with sticks, or set on fire. From there, the crowd would all descend upon the house of the politician, and tear it to the foundation, board by board. Some politicians who were caught were literally tarred and feathered. (For the uninitiated, this is not just uncomfortable; the tar used is heated to boiling, and since it sticks to the skin, the burns are horrific.)

It seems some of the Tea Partiers in New Hampshire (who’s state motto is “Live Free or Die”), are getting back to our nation’s roots. Well, sort of. They’re not exactly tearing down the houses or preparing barrels of tar, but they are bringing their anger to the doorsteps of their Congress Critters.

We applaud them for their actions. And we encourage more behavior such as this, so long as its within the limits of the law. We’re not encouraging anyone to do anything illegal, but it’s time to get personal with the people who are supposed to be representing us. It is time to ensure that they cannot slip out of their districts to the security of their Washington D.C. offices and ignore us. They need to see our faces. They need to hear the anger in our voices, and see the outrage in our eyes. They need to be stopped, interrupted, questioned, put on the spot, and held accountable for their actions. They need to be followed, and their present location tweeted, emailed, texted, facebooked, and IMed. Every thing they do, every word they say, needs to be recorded and posted on YouTube.

So long as they refuse to listen to us, so long as they continue to ignore the will of We the People, so long as they continue to pretend that we don’t exist, they shouldn’t be allowed to get a cup of coffee from McDonald’s without a swarm of people around them asking them why We the People are being ignored.