Stampede

 

Stampede

Stampede they're comin' up to draw
Stampede three thousand herd or more
Here they come a smokin' fire boys you better earn your hire
Stampede and hell to score

Don’t be stampeded.

A stampede is  defined as running away in a large group from something especially because of fear. Man is a group animal and, like any large group, man can be stampeded. A stampede at a concert or sporting event is among the most frightening things. Attendees have been trampled in those stampedes. Deliberately  starting a  stampede is among the worse things that could be done, because the group may act in a way a that is harmful to itself and others.

In Disney’s The Lion King, Scar starts a stampede to kill his brother, King Mustafa and frame his nephew, Simba. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote that “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.”

If a political party promotes the fear of …immigrants, religions, races, gender, sexual orientation, etc. aren’t they trying to stampede the voting population for their own benefit. When you vote, listen without fear. Don’t let yourself be stampeded.