07.02.14
The Wonder-filled World of WhiteManistan & Gun Bullies
Last year, it was bullet-proof tactical puffer vests for children:
With his new line, MC Kids, Caballero offers backpacks and jackets for kids, including some in girlie pink and stamped with fluttering fairies, that are also outfitted with bulletproof plating to stop the slugs from an Uzi. Caballero, 46, said that in his 20 years of business, there had never been a demand in Colombia for bulletproof children’s clothing.
But the United States is a different market: a country where there are about as many firearms as people, Caballero pointed out, and where mass shootings have simply prompted some to stock up on weapons and seek other forms of protection.
And you can see them as part of this video, even more relevant now.
And this week, a long report from deep inna heart of WhiteManistan, Texas, described by Rolling Stone as “falling into the hands of gun nuts, border-sealers and talk-radio charlatans [where] George W. Bush would practically be considered a communist.”
The article is more fair than the lead-in’s implication. Even it’s subjects, most woefully, one of the leaders of Open Carry Texas, might find parts of it a truthful portrayal.
This excerpt, perfectly describes the upside-down world of paralytic, dangerous and paranoid white America in 2014:
Open Carry Texas received even worse press after two dozen heavily armed members, some carrying AK-47s, crashed a meeting of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a gun-control group formed after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. The Moms had gathered at a Mexican restaurant in suburban Dallas. Even though the Open Carry members never left the parking lot, the damage was done: As any PR novice would have warned, you simply don’t bring guns to a mom fight.
This week, Target issued a statement that bringing guns to shop for sundries was no longer allowed, looking specifically aimed at Open Carry Texas in Tarrant County.
“It’s also interesting to report that nearly everyone I met [for this story] turned out to be far quirkier, politically, than any caricatured preconceptions might lead you to guess,” writes the Rolling Stone journalist.
While journalistic comparisons between the rise of the Tea Party and the rise of Occupy Wall Street – as two ends of the spectrum responding to economic collapse and elite betrayal – feel like clichéd false [equivalence] by this point, there’s an unruly, anarchistic feel to this crowd that reminds me of the time I spent in Zuccotti Park.”
Readers know there’s no shortage of WhiteManistan blog video on the rise of Gun Bully America. They are invited to enjoy again, Gun Nut Folk Tune and Hey Joe and to sh-a-a-a-a-r-e in the great network of social media where the cream always rises to the top.
Made months to over a year ago, working documentary proof that things can always get worse. And do.