12.05.12
Tales from WhiteManistan — the ‘other’ California
The Republican Party was wiped out in California in the election. It has no political power to do anything in the state legislature, thus opening the way to the first significant change here in well over a decade.
But there are still red areas where the right white man sits, boiling in a stew of fears over the president, the imminent loss of freedom, the overthrow of the republic, non-white people and the homosexuals, too.
And the ferment has resulted in major gun sales for the Christmas season.
From the Orange County Register:
Californians are buying more guns than ever …
“I think it’s a direct outgrowth of the strategies employed in the recent election,” said John Eastman, a professor and former dean of the Chapman University School of Law who in 2010 sought Republican nomination for state Attorney General.
Eastman pointed to the discord brought by groups like Occupy Wall Street, which in some cases clashed with police. The breakdown in public order inspired more people to think about self-defense, he said …
“The National Rifle Association has done a wonderful job of demonizing President Obama,” said [one observer to the newspaper].
In fact, Blek said, Obama’s gun policies have either been nonexistent or a step backward in the eyes of safety advocates …
“A lot of people are just recently learning about what the Constitution says and the rights that we have and starting to exercise them now,” a [gun shop owner] told the newspaper.
“There is a big scare that guns are going to begin to get scarce,” [said another firearms store owner].
The newspaper added the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System had run almost one million background checks “related to guns in California” this year.
Want to give a God Save WhiteManistan T-shirt to the closet bigot in the family or office? Think of the merry conversation it could make at the holiday table!
If so, say so in comment. Perhaps I’ll put the image on-line at one of the insta-T-shirt printers!
I saw the professor deliver a March 2010 speech to California Tea Party activists in Buena Park during his failed attempt to win the Republican Party nomination for attorney general. Calling himself a constitutional scholar, he declared that if the state allowed gay marriages, citizens had a duty to “rise up and abolish” the government. Eastman also proudly noted his philosophical attitude could be summed up by the declaration Justice Thomas has on an office plaque: “I ain’t evolving.”