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March 1 — Escape from WhiteManistan! The sci-fi horror we’re living? Or one we’d like to see only on the big screen?
Work at reading the fine print.
Bigger.
Keys: Ted Nugent, Wayne LaPierre, gun nut, NRA, Second Amendment, Obama, Hitler.
You too can waste time. Done here.
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Only about 280 videos in the last six days, reports YouTube.
Only at mid-week and two days after the inauguration and WhiteManistan’s best floods YouTube with concerned citizen warnings that Obama = Hitler.
Don’t believe me? Take a look at that list. Soak in it, but only a little.
You could make a pretty bleak comedy about the diminishing group of white far right wing Americans and their needy character — a flaw that requires they shout to anyone in hearing how the president is like the German dictator.
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This delivers a certain electric charm. Guy sounds like Tom Petty fronting a good hard blues rock band.
“It’s real hard to get along in this life today!” Can’t argue with that.
Technically, not in the WhiteManistan sphere of influence. From Vancouver, god bless ’em. “I Like Hockey, It’s the Best.”
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There’s no place safe from electronic Pearl Harbor, not even lowly Huntsville, Alabama. Or rather, there’s no place the plutocrat cutpurses and their shoeshine boys in the national cyberwar industry find too small if there are taxpayer dollars to be taken off the rubes.
Infamous cyberwar-shoeshine man, Mike McConnell, picked up his check from the Huntsville Chamber of Commerce and a legal firm, delivering this to the local businessmen:
The only way the U.S. will improve its defenses against cyber attacks is if there is a modern-day, Pearl Harbor-like attack or if Americans get agitated enough to ask for answers, according to the former director of the National Security Agency.
Mike McConnell, an expert in cyber security and vice chair of Booz Allen Hamilton, said both Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks could have been prevented if the U.S agencies were were better equipped and if they worked in better cooperation with each other. All the intelligence needed was known, McConnell — who led the NSA from 1992 until 1996 and now serves as vice chairman of Booz Allen Hamilton — said. (In 2007 he was appointed as Director of National Intelligence by President George W. Bush.)
“We had all the pieces, but not the imagination” he told a Huntsville audience at the Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville-Madison County this evening. The event was sponsored by Birmingham-base law firm Sirote and Permutt PC.
The post informs Huntsville is the “No. 2 target in the U.S. for foreign intelligence efforts.”
They’re number TWO!
“With nearly 20 percent of Alabamians receiving food assistance, the state ranks above the national average,” reads a local Alabama news article from last summer. “Experts say this trend seems to be an increasing one.”
Money for cyberwar shoeshine, but trying to opt out of Obamacare for the disadvantaged, too, it seems.
More on Mike Cyberwar-Shoeshine — from the archives.
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Invoking Abraham Lincoln while signing a song essentially calling for civil war against the black president is a bit delusional, dontcha think?
The WhiteManistan photo collection.
Meanwhile, the media finally caught on to Ted Nugent’s latest stunt, which you saw on DD blog last week, where he threatened armed revolt and the president, at a gun show.
Another week, another white ninny threatening to shoot government men on YouTube.
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To write a song for a friend on their birthday.
You see, most people have never had someone write a tune just for them. We could use a little more of that.
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Image permanently damaged.
“Austin’s pro-gun rally crowd included a wide spectrum of people — veterans, people of color, women, children, college students, senior citizens and families,” reads the recap of the Saturday gun rally in the Texas state capitol.
The statement belies the photo gallery accompanying the piece. What that shows is a crowd of mostly older and predominantly white people, resembling nothing more than a dust-off of your standard Tea Party crew.
All the banners and T-shirts are present — the grievances against the president, assertions that he’s an impeachable traitor, the Gadsden flag, along with the cheap merchandising belligerence of “molon labe.”
Yes, there’s nothing that says one believes in all the principles of American democracy more than a huge banner with the phrase “Come and Take It” and an artistic rendering of a heavy assault weapon that shoots armor-piercing bullets.
While it’s Texas, noticeable here in SoCal are pictures of a crowd that didn’t quite rival what one might expect for a high school football game.
And that’s a bit of good news because it underlines that America’s gun nut demographic is a minority. The number of people actually ready to march on the White House or find some local Ft. Sumter to attack rather than play-act at being insurrectionists is difficult to discern. This part of WhiteManistan may not believe in the legitimacy of the democratically elected government but they’re not really in shape to do anything about it except push the same old slogans.
The Austin-American Statesman’s photo gallery is a good one.
The Statesman coverage shows, too, how WhiteManistan is losing the national debate. If there’s a more ludicrous image to push than being paranoid and possessed by a group delusion that believes the Second Amendment is being repealed by an American dictatorship, I don’t know what is.
It does not, however, answer the question, “How to divest from WhiteManistan?” And what should be saved from its crabbed and authoritarian world view. Anything?
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Today’s the time to go to your local gun store, or collect in a crowd of churlish white men at the capitol building in a red state, curse the president and liberals, vow you will defend the Constitution against tyranny, and menace everyone who isn’t in your tribe of play-acting insurrectionists.
From the wires:
Hundreds of people are gathering in state capitals nationwide to rally against stricter gun control measures.
An estimated 600 people turned out so far for Saturday speeches in Austin, Texas. Many are carrying signs with messages such as “An Armed Society is a Polite Society” and “The Second Amendment Comes from God.”
A great way to commemorate a famous African American civil rights leader. Who was shot by a white guy.
The “come and take it” thing is a derivation of the Greek “molon labe,” a phrase of defiance allegedly thrown at the Persians by the Spartans at Thermopylae. Of course, at Thermopylae, the weapons were pikes, spears and blades, not AR-15s and .50-caliber semi-automatic sniper rifles.
Co-opted by WhiteManistan, it’s now deadeningly used in merchandising, on asinine T-shirts, placards and flags which absurdly try to sell the delusion that crowds of mouthy fattish white guys with semi-automatic assault rifles are the only thing standing between America and tyranny. It’s just another part of the act in which gun nut WhiteManistan finds satisfaction in symbolically threatening others with (in the case of the photo at the top of the page) … heavy weapons.
The National Gun Nut Day Song.
A few lines from an editorial at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, via Frank at Pine View Farm, encapsulates it:
Any American who needs an assault weapon for possibly making war on his supposedly dictatorial government is really contemplating another Civil War … At least the Civil War was about real issues, not the sour fruit of paranoia that makes some of today’s alleged patriots so dyspeptic …
Indeed, if you think you must have an assault rifle to fight your own government and people, you might as well think about joining al-Qaida and have done with it. I understand that if you join this month, you get a T-shirt and a complimentary bag of dates.
It can’t be emphasized enough. What this part of WhiteManistan is about is threatening others and denial of the legitimacy of the current democratically elected government.
The ongoing dilemma is how to escape and divest from WhiteManistan with the least amount of damage in the years ahead.
In terms of publicity, the gun nut demographic has spent the last few weeks fucking the dog under the spotlight. It has built a repugnant image, laughably so. The president understands this and it now remains to be seen whether the nation can make something happen in gun control.
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WhiteManistan Good Will Tour.
One of the common motivations now on display by the gun nut minority in WhiteManistan is the need to appear threatening. One must either appear on websites or on video, or in pictures, talking about killing others, revolution, or doing something that amounts to waving a gun or assault rifle in the face of average citizens.
Behaviorally, it’s profoundly anti-social, nothing an actual civil society would be proud of. It is not a demonstration of freedom. More accurately, it’s the behavior of people who are more interested in bullying entire swaths of society. And it doesn’t take a degreed expert in human psychology to get it.
The media mainstream has a hard time dealing with it because it comes almost exclusively from white male America, a demographic which has, up until now, been shielded from substantial and continuing pressure and criticism. It’s the equivalent of a symbolic pistol whipping, the behavior part and parcel with the surge in gun and ammunition hoarding, a retail arms-buying stampede in which it has not been difficult to find any number of belligerent white guys proclaiming they’re ready to offer the government armed resistance.
Those flaunting weaponry never admit to why they’re actually doing it. The service is always about generously educating others, allegedly furnishing some social good by showing the safe carrying of assault rifles.
From the Salt Lake City Tribune:
Cindy Yorgason was in line at the J.C. Penney in Riverdale on Wednesday when she looked up and saw a shopper with “a large gun.”
Yorgason said the rifle was slung across the back of the man in front of her. When she looked closer, she saw that he also had extra ammunition clips and a sidearm in a holster on his right hip …
On Thursday, 22-year-old Joseph Kelley identified himself as the man in Yorgason’s pictures. Kelley described himself as a firm believer in Second Amendment rights and said he decided to bring the guns to the store to demonstrate that they are not dangerous in the hands of law-abiding citizens.
According to Kelley, the rifle was an unloaded AR-15 and the handgun was a loaded Glock 19C. He said he has a concealed-carry permit, is a former member of the military and contacted police dispatch before leaving his home to tell them about his plans. Kelley also said he was told that he was “well within his rights” and that bystanders’ reactions were positive.
Opinions vary.
“I thought that he was pretty much an idiot,” Yorgason told the newspaper.
In Portland, a man named Warren Drouin engages in the same activity, showing up in various neighborhoods on patrol with his AR-15. This has invariably resulted in calls to 911 with police dispatched so often they now know Drouin by name.
Drouin videotapes these encounters and uploads them to YouTube, part of an effort, again alleged to be educating people on their second amendment rights.
Drouin qualifies as an aggravating public nuisance, someone who goes into a neighborhood toting his assault rifle in the full knowledge 911 calls will ensue with the police dispatched to check on him. The local authorities have not been able to creatively figure out how to put an end to it although enforcement of laws to remove vagrants or curb flashing, public urination and other similar disturbances would seem to have some application.
In addition, one questions the mental status of someone who is jazzed by the idea of others calling 911 when he shows up in their area with his AR-15. And whether he should even have a gun permit in the first place.
During the Blair administration, Britain came up with a remedy for nuisances called ASBOs, or anti-social behavior orders.
The application of them has been patchy with much debate about their necessity.
Nevertheless, an ASBO is defined thusly:
Under section 1C(2) CDA an order on conviction may be made by a court following conviction for a relevant offence if the court considers:
That the offender has acted, at any time since [1 April 1999], in an anti-social manner, that is to say in a manner that caused or was likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more persons not of the same household as himself, and
An order under this section is necessary to protect persons in any place in England and Wales from further anti-social acts by him.
The case of Gosport Borough Council, R (on the application of) v Fareham Magistrates Court [2006] EWHC 3047 (Admin) states that there should be some evidence before the court that the behaviour in question has caused or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
The order is given to prevent the individual named from repeating the nuisance activity.
The display of AR-15s in department stores or ex-urban household neighborhoods — well, DD thinks a case can easily be made that it constitutes activity which the perpetrators implicitly know many in the general public, not in their family, will find harassing. And that’s a big reason why it’s done — the full knowledge that it’s very noticeable, uncivil and intimidating.
WhiteManistan Gemutlichkeit. You see, they’re just educating us. Bigger.
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