I’m all against racist stuff and stuff, but here, ‘federal building’ is a rather big word for a cabin in th emiddle of nowhere, that no one’s interested in.
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Well, let’s not start a pithing contest.
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The Dutch Colony Founders & William Penn somewhat less so.
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It’s true, we’ve got a system that certainly values property over, say, the lives of black people. We also have a country where reactionaries have control of large swaths of the government from the local to the federal level. So right-wing terrorism historically has gotten a pass/active assistance from local law enforcement (whether its bombing black churches or family planning centers), and sympathy/political assistance from federal Republicans - e.g. presidential candidates are reluctant to condemn acts of right-wing terrorism (and even call a mass killing a “protest”) because they don’t want to alienate terrorist sympathizers. There’s no left-wing equivalent, except perhaps a small number of individual politicians in a few cities on the local level; the Democrats certainly aren’t the left-wing version of the Republicans, however.
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That actually is true. I think they mean it to be symbolic. I suspect if we all ignore them, maybe they’ll disappear in embarrassment?
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Yes, at least in the rural northwest, reasonable people can infer that Ammon Bundy is a racist. He is the self-identified ring leader of an armed, notoriously racist militia movement. He has personally summoned other armed, racist militias from across state lines to help him violently resist the lawful authority of the federal government and the state government of Oregon.
Ammon Bundy posted a video on his Facebook page asking for militia members to come help him. He said “this is not a time to stand down. It’s a time to stand up and come to Harney County,” where Burns is located. Below the video is this statement: “(asterisk)(asterisk)ALL PATRIOTS ITS TIME TO STAND UP NOT STAND DOWN!!! WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! COME PREPARED.”
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Maybe the feds only shake people down in NY/ NE, but I assumed it would by countrywide policy.
What matters is the mythical significance of these places, not what they actually look like. Many famous events of history, as Terry Pratchett puts it, consist of two groups of people hacking at one another in a muddy field. Subsequently they become either glorious victories or attempted genocide depending on which side your ancestors were.
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And circular reasoning. I remember an old Oliphant cartoon where some dumbass white guy is pointing his gun out the window, with the caption, “I got my gun so I can keep the gummint from taking my gun.” Or some such.
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I always wanted a bumper sticker that read “My Country: Right Its Wrongs.” But that was before Cafepress . . .
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With all due respect, this is why we have a second amendment: To defend ourselves and the republic from all enemies foreign and domestic.
What should happen is for a heavily armed civilian militia to go in and exterminate these insurgents.
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Good to know. That’s not common knowledge outside of the rural northwest, nor has his racism been reported in any news article so far. But while you could read words like “patriots” or “stand up” as possibly coded language for racism, so far, all of their statements have been entirely about taking the land they’re squatting on back from the government and about how the government’s use of Oregon land for wildlife parks has taken money away from ranchers/farmers.
It’s been a holiday week, I suspect whiskey is involved. This will last as long as the whiskey, then they’ll get tired of it all. “Hey, it was just a joke, don’t tase me bro!”
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Then stop going on about it on your blog.
a classic case of three lefts still being wrong.
I am guilty of conflation and excessive broadness. To be precise I accidentally conflated the Pilgrim Fathers and the Winthrop expedition. I apologise for my poor grasp of history. It was the Massachusetts Bay Colony that executed three Quakers, and Cotton Mather who was particularly a driver of the Salem Witch Trials.
But I didn’t mention those other colonies.
Yep. About 100 years before we separated church from state. But totes nothing has changed. We still sacrifice Wampanoag babies on Thanksgiving, the grooves in Plymouth Rock… well… you know.
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