Thanks. No, Really.
Baldilocks calls it dropping the mask. I would caveat that in a large population you’ll get weirdoes of all kinds, but this is where the trendline is going: Americans shooting American military in a time of war. It’s what people call for in parades, it’s what I see on the Web, it’s been hinted at in earlier, other attacks from spitting to putting guys in the hospital.
And we aren’t allowed to counter it.
3 Responses to “Thanks. No, Really.”
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July 11th, 2007 at 5:44 am
I don’t see why you say we are not allowed to counter it. This is a crime pure and simple. Americans are allowed to counter criminal behavior regardless of whatever window dressing the criminal tries to put on it.
This should be called for what it is blatant criminal behavior by a sick individual. People can and do speak out against that kind of conduct all the time.
July 11th, 2007 at 5:55 am
Oh, sure, sir, you’re completely right; after this, the incident gets treated as criminal. And I agree that the world is big enough that you’ll see plenty of bad things happen and this could just be like the guy who started flinging a shotgun around some Vegas election office, or the guy who looked up a ROTC kid and beat him up at his house.
I’m just seeing a curve in unfaired data points, ‘s’all, and am frustrated having to deal with some of these clowns who aren’t shooting–when’s the last time anyone was prosecuted for sedition, treason, all that stuff?
Also, I didn’t add in unrelated issues like Hamas getting op-ed space in three major newspapers at three different times in two weeks, and just returning from the World War I museum and being reminded about how things were done then–but they’re on my mind. If the enemy is directly attacking our will to fight, why aren’t we shoring that up and protecting against those attacks as an open society?
Rhetorical question, I know. But still.
July 12th, 2007 at 2:57 am
That, and it’s counter-productive for them, too. This will tend toward getting The Legions more and more separate from general society, which is a bad thing for a Republic. Or maybe that’s what they want. Or maybe they aren’t thinking too much and do what Signore Gramsci’s minions want them to do.
Oh, because it’s dang near impossible to leave a comment at Baldilocks’s place, here’s what I was gonna leave there:
Hmm, used beer. Sounds good, but I’m shy about unbuttoning in public. I think I’d rather go for an old-fashioned glass urine-specimen jar with the yellow liquid in it and also a sprig of poison ivy, placed lovingly at the base of the headstone