tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037457696217227495.post4176257810330440217..comments2023-10-24T02:07:43.165-07:00Comments on Zion Beckons: Monday Morning Rant 142Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037457696217227495.post-39466468973016144322010-04-19T12:04:31.353-07:002010-04-19T12:04:31.353-07:00You know, funny thing. You seem to have a narrativ...You know, funny thing. You seem to have a narrative <i>you</i> want to follow, but the facts don’t seem to be cooperating with you.<br /><br /><i>The Oklahoma City bombing was a response to a similar imagined threat. The Koresh compound at Waco was destroyed along with dozens of people by a government gone power mad</i><br /><br />You mean the self-proclaimed prophet of the Branch Davidian cult, himself “the Son of God, the Lamb who could open the Seven Seals"? Set up an armed camp they called “Ranch Apocalypse”? Slept with all of the women (since polygamy was for the non-divine), including 10 and 12-year-old girls? Fathered 15 children? Had rambling apocalyptic conversations with the FBI? Arrested with a gang of his followers trying to gun down a competing prophet? Spent $2K on grenades, gas masks, over 200 weapons, and more than a million rounds of ammo in the year before the bungled ATF raid? <br /><br />Yeah, the ATF screwed their rules of engagement, but is this the fine, upstanding citizen you’re trying to claim was defying “a government gone power mad”? <br /><br /><i>We all suffer when violent response becomes the only answer to the people’s greivances.</i><br /><br />Or when the people’s “grievances” (real or imagined) make them decide to become violent. You’re the one who brought up McVeigh.<br /><br />At least you used the term “imagined threat,” but then you give the impression that they were in the right. Serious mixed messages there.<br /><br /><i>Most recently, Allee Bautsch, a fundraiser, and her boyfriend (were accosted)...<br />The “non-news” side of this story is the fact that this may well be the first you have heard of it. There has been a near total blackout on this news story from the mainstream media.</i><br /><br />Really? <a href="http://tinyurl.com/y43bdsj" rel="nofollow">AP wire story</a>. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/y7jcjfm" rel="nofollow">Fox News</a>. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/y4jhyg5" rel="nofollow">New Orleans Times Picayune</a>. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/y44kywy" rel="nofollow">TV coverage</a>.<br /><br />This “blackout” really sucks. Maybe you should go back to Remedial Conspiracy Theorist school if this is the best you can do.<br /><br /><i> The fact that Ms Bautsch was not robbed in the assault serves to verify that it was not “street crime.”</i><br /><br />Excuse me? Ref, let’s go to the instant replay on this one. Back to Fox News (go ahead, claim that they’re “left-wing media” – I dare you).<br /><br /><i> Assailants knocked down Bautsch and stomped her repeatedly, breaking her leg in five places.<br /><br />Bautsch's mother told Fox News on Friday that her daughter was not robbed,<b> but her boyfriend was "after she was screaming on the ground."<br /><br />The suspects stole Bautsch's purse and ran off, Bautsch's mother said</b>.</i> <br /><br />I can see where you might have gotten confused, but seriously. Read it again.<br /><br /><i>When asked whether reports that political insults were hurled at the couple were accurate, Bautsch's mother said, "This is not a Republican or Democrat problem. This is a problem that a young girl and her boyfriend were attacked. And the story hasn't really come out and I want to make sure these guys are found."</i><br /><br />Your problem isn’t some vast media conspiracy, it’s that you’re being judged by the company you keep. <br /><br />You don’t want to be considered racist? Then tell the people with the racist signs, shouting about the nigger Kenyan usurper in the White House to shut up and go away. You hang around with them, you get tarred with the same brush (so to speak).<br /><br />You don’t want to be considered violent or part of the resurgence of the 90s militia movement? Then expel the ones who are. The armed ones. The ones screaming about overthrowing the government. (Oh, and it would help if you would clearly state how you feel about the Oklahoma bombing, instead of making veiled comments about violent responses.)<br /><br />If you aren’t one with the lunatics, then let them have their own gatherings. If they come to yours, everybody will continue to assume that you support them.Nameless Cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17963921060024737712noreply@blogger.com