There's Supposed To Be Six Strings

John’s guitar only had four strings the first time George met him. So George gave John two strings and then taught him a few chords. George was 14 years old. John had this friend named Bill Harry. Bill, one of these guys with two first names, was talking Stewart into going back to art school and giving up music. Bill went on to found and edit Mersey Beat; Stewart gave up music and dropped dead in an art class, and Paul started playing a four string guitar. Paul’s guitar was supposed to have four strings and not six.

In 1962 Brian fired Pete who played drums. He brought in this guy named Richard to replace him. Up until that moment America had run rock ‘n roll. After all it’s particularly American music because some white cats, mainly a kid named Elvis, had made some money off music invented by black cats, and because rock ‘n roll had made some white guys in suits very wealthy. Of course, being America, the black cats made no money. 

Richard, who for some strange reason called himself “Ringo,” Paul, George and John, who hadn’t realized that guitars had six strings, were from England; in 1962 they recorded a song called “Love Me Do” and four years later they could no longer appear public together because they couldn’t hear themselves play over the noise of the crowd. It also was a hassle getting them saftely from point A to point B. The four of them haven’t recorded a single note for over 40 years and they have sold more records in the United States than any other artist ever. That includes The Rolling Stones, who have continued to record records since those days.

Richard, the drummer, is often referred to as “the luckiest man of the 20th century.” However if you ask me, Pete Best was the luckiest man of the 20th century; after being fired he became a civil servant for 20 years, stayed married to the same woman, raised two daughers, four grandkids, and has lived as normal of a life as anyone gets. At least he can go out and walk down a street without a car having to follow him “just in case.” Paul and Richard still can’t do that four decades later.

John really didn’t know there should have been six strings. After all, Stewart’s guitar, a bass, had four. Given what followed after George wandered onto the scene, John Lennon’s level of cluelessness amazes me. Which brings me to . 

Schlicht sits on the . George Harrison could show up and say “Hey, Schlicht, you’re missing a couple of strings there” and she’d totally ignore him. John listened and went on to be one of the top songwriters of the 20th century; he co-wrote 25 number-one singles. He lived in the public eye for 18 years and created joy and beauty that will remain timeless.

Schlicht hasn’t created a damn thing for Mission Viejo. Forget joy and beauty. In fact, most of the time she can’t be bothered to show up at public events, especially the ones which are focused on our children. Now that she’s running for reelection she’s showing up at the March Against Drugs and elsewhere. In the last few months she has voted to break state law twice and has proposed a law that is clearly unconstitutional.  She proposed it because she knows no one will vote against it; instead they will just let it go to court and they'll spend your tax dollars to defend the indefensible. Politicans are cowards.

Schlicht’s law would ban sexual offenders from public parks. The sex offenders could still go to the mall where the kids really hang out. Business is business and money, even sex offenders' money, is, well, money.

Don’t get me wrong. I am not defending sexual offenders’ behavior. No one in her right mind would defend that behavior. 

But the funny thing about the United States and the entire freedom/equality thing? If one person has rights, we all do. 

It’s that simple. Six strings.

The minute you start saying things like “Shriners shouldn’t be allowed to eat at this lunch counter,” it gets hard to tell where you’re drawing the line. It’s also unAmerican as all hell. And that is exactly what Schlicht thinks she should create for us. She said, right into a microphone, that she doesn’t care if she violates some people’s rights. Does it really matter which group’s rights she thinks it’s okay to violate this week? Schlicht wants to create unAmerica.