The Secesh category archive
Cowboy Cosplay 0
Buried in a larger story about how the court told the members of the Bundy Bund currently in custody, “No, you don’t get to walk away, Rene,” is this bit (emphasis added):
A speaker believed to be David Fry said he asked the FBI whether it was possible to “get out of here without charges,” but “they keep saying that’s not possible.”
Four holdouts continued to occupy the refuge in the snowy high country near Burns, and they posted a YouTube video Friday demanding pardons for everyone involved in the occupation.I think that this expectation–that they are somehow exempt from consequences for theft and terrorism–conveys much about the bubble that these folks have built for themselves.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 1
Cenk sees an historical trend. (Warning: Forceful Language)
How Stuff Works, Bundy Bund Dept. 0
Update, after This Was Drafted*:
It appears that the Feds were using an enforcement technique known as “Give ‘Em Enough Rope . . . .”
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*You didn’t think I do all this in real time, did you?
I write a bunch of stuff, then I go off and do other stuff. Then I write stuff. It’s the Great Cycle of Drivel.
Tales of the Bundy Bund 0
The Bundy allies are rallying in the only way they know.
The occupiers “are threatening the state, they are threatening the refuge, and they are threatening the life of someone we love in a very real way,” Klonoski said.
A Stock of Laughing 0
Josh Marshall suggests that the Feds’ hands-off approach to the Bundy Bund is slowly revealing itself to have been prescient. A snippet:
In the last week alone, the militiamen have made headlines–not for forcing the government’s hand on federal lands or helping free the Hammonds–but for throwing boxes of dildos on the floor in protest against the mocking mail they have been receiving, for getting arrested after allegedly driving an official refuge vehicle into town to get groceries, for ransacking government files and for using government computers.
With each odd incident, the media and the public gets more insight into the individuals holed up at the wildlife preserve and their puzzling and incongruent motivations.
The American Taliban’s Sagebrush Sharia 0
Y’all Qaeda institutes Sagebrush Sharia in Oregon.
Afterthought:
No self-awareness. No self-awareness whatsoever.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Steven M asks a question:
“The core population” — is that what white supremacists are calling themselves these days?
Follow the link for context.
“Frontier Town” 0
Frontier Town was an Western-themed amusement park near that far west resort town, Ocean City, Maryland, in the era when every little boy wanted a cowboy suit and a Mattel Fanner Fifty. (It seems to live on as a campground.)
Like Hollywood’s versions of the Wild Wild West, it was not then and has never been a real place.
Paradise Lost 0
It seems that all is not well in the Bundy Bund’s Shangri-La-La-Land.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Just like the old Secesh, they want their own way and to hell with the common good.
A Flagging Interest in the Secesh 0
The Roanoke Times, in a long and thoughtful piece, considers the efforts this year to remove Confederate monuments and memoribilia from public display. Remember, most of these took place after Dylan Roof tried to rally the Secesh to a new race war by killing persons in a church. Here’s a bit; the whole thing is worth a read:
Here is one question to ask as Confederate symbols or even non-Confederate ones come up for review: Does their display constitute an endorsement of the politics behind them?
At some level, the answer may always be “yes.” Otherwise, why else would the historical figure have been honored in the first place? There’s a national movement among conservative activists to name more things after Ronald Reagan. They’re not doing that simply because they thought Reagan was a congenial fellow — they’re doing it to validate his philosophy for history.
In Which I Commend Jeb Bush 0
Jeb Bush spoke some truth (granted, he left out the part about the Civil War being about slavery and nothing else, but the whole damn country has left that out for 150 years).
His chances for the Republican nomination likely ended yesterday, but I must tip my hat to him. In today’s Republican Party, confronting the New Secesh takes guts.