Call me old-fashioned, but when I see pictures of sniper yahoos in the Nevada desert aiming high-powered rifles at Bureau of Land Management officers in lawful performance of their duties, I think that's way beyond uncool. In fact, I think it's criminal, traitorous, ignorant, and dangerous in the extreme to the rule of law.
Forgive me if my thinking ain't cowboy enough, but idiots who saddle up to ride to the rescue of a rich rancher who has been in obvious violation of the law aren't cowboys I respect. These guys aren't John Wayne; they're more like John Wayne Gacy, anarchists and wanna-be murderers of their fellow citizens, losers, malcontents, and slack-jawed consumers of pre-digested right-wing thinking served up by people who use them for an agenda that has nothing to do with benefiting people like them.
They aren't patriots, and they're about as dumb as cow dung when it comes to understanding this nation's history or its Constitution. If they'd care to listen to someone smarter or more responsible than, say, Sean Hannity or the Klown Khorus that encourages them to think guys who are asked to pay agreed-upon grazing fees for use of public land are somehow being victimized by a "tyrannical government," they might consult American history for an earlier instance of the lawlessness they're advocating.
George Washington, the nation's first "tyrant," put down the Whiskey Rebellion, an uprising against government that took place when we were brand new. Those people didn't want to pay taxes, and they didn't want "revenuers" regulating the stuff they were distilling, sometimes in ways that could make consumers go blind. So, those early American peckerwoods stood up against government "tyranny," and Washington put down that rebellion, along with the notion that anyone with a rifle and an attitude can do whatever he pleases, government be damned.
Complete story at - Dimwitted "Patriots" and Phony "Cowboys" | The Smirking Chimp
Forgive me if my thinking ain't cowboy enough, but idiots who saddle up to ride to the rescue of a rich rancher who has been in obvious violation of the law aren't cowboys I respect. These guys aren't John Wayne; they're more like John Wayne Gacy, anarchists and wanna-be murderers of their fellow citizens, losers, malcontents, and slack-jawed consumers of pre-digested right-wing thinking served up by people who use them for an agenda that has nothing to do with benefiting people like them.
They aren't patriots, and they're about as dumb as cow dung when it comes to understanding this nation's history or its Constitution. If they'd care to listen to someone smarter or more responsible than, say, Sean Hannity or the Klown Khorus that encourages them to think guys who are asked to pay agreed-upon grazing fees for use of public land are somehow being victimized by a "tyrannical government," they might consult American history for an earlier instance of the lawlessness they're advocating.
George Washington, the nation's first "tyrant," put down the Whiskey Rebellion, an uprising against government that took place when we were brand new. Those people didn't want to pay taxes, and they didn't want "revenuers" regulating the stuff they were distilling, sometimes in ways that could make consumers go blind. So, those early American peckerwoods stood up against government "tyranny," and Washington put down that rebellion, along with the notion that anyone with a rifle and an attitude can do whatever he pleases, government be damned.
Complete story at - Dimwitted "Patriots" and Phony "Cowboys" | The Smirking Chimp
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