…According to this guy Mark Carpenter from The Satellite Show group blog. He says here that
….not content merely showing off their guns at Wal-Mart, Starbucks, and our national parks, a group of gun-hot-mouth-breathers open-carry advocates converged on Alexandria, VA to wave their guns at the US Capitol on the fifteenth anniversary of militia supporter and gun-control critic Tim McVeigh’s bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building.
Meh.
(Note that his Wal-Mart link goes to pix of me. I found his blog from the pingback.)
I do like that he says:
Okay, I’ll say it: these people scare the holy heavenly living fuck out of me. They seem so misguided and sincere and expect major gun battles in retail outlets and coffee shops. And ummm… just in case they’re right, I’ll be at Peet’s, okay?
Meanwhile, here in Casper, the liberal “more taxes and less freedom!” daily newspaper the Casper Turbine Tribune finally gets around to writing about the tea party that happened a week ago, talks about the “extremism” at the tea party in an article called
Tea partiers try to temper messages, but some turn ugly
Some tea partiers brought signs that were ugly, such as using Obama’s name as an acronym standing for “One Big Ass Mistake America.” Others didn’t carry signs, but they wore firearms on their hips.
Speakers talked about the evils of Obama’s health care reform, critics who call tea partiers dumb or racist, wasting taxpayer money, the justice system and government as corporations, health care reform, gun rights, the Constitution, disinvited University of Wyoming speaker Bill Ayers, political incumbents needing a kick out of office, the John Birch Society, and health care reform.
Some talked about America the way they thought it was and should be. “We will rebuild America the way it was back in 1776,” Allen Crowder said. “We are a Christian nation, regardless of what the president says,” Carl Collea said. “I don’t believe Obama is a Christian.”
The council often has no one to speak during the public comment sessions at the end of every meeting, which makes council members wonder if the public cares, Holloway said…Holding his Obama-as-The Joker sign, Matt Kull… feels frustrated that people speak and vote, but politicians do what they want. “Our perception is we show up and no one listens,” he said.
If you read the 60+ negative reader comments on that article from the “more taxes and less freedom!” crowd (four guys in Casper on SSI and one guy in California who used to live here but still wants to make Wyoming more like California), you get the impression that people think it’s silly that us tea party folk don’t like it that our government ain’t listening. I don’t get that.
The unattributed quote from me in that article’s sidebar about “It hurts to watch our country be in a hostile takeover” (video below) seems to sum it up well. (I was actually quoting myself, it’s a paraphrase of a line in my Right Arm of Wyoming song “Tar and Feather a Tax Collector.”)
Anyway, yeah, people were complaining about the do’h!-bama regime, and five of the 150 people did have guns on our hips (I was one of them), but I wouldn’t call the mood that day “extreme.” I’d call it quaint. And considering what the left is doing to America, I’d say the Right have been very polite up to this point.
–Michael W. Dean
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(altered gun pic of me from mriguy4. Thanks guy!)
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