The Minute Men
And once again, Conservative Hicks have taken up arms to protect this great nation from those who are unarmed, barely have enough to eat, and are looking for work.
That’s right, they have had it with the dangers of our porous borders and they are going to do something about it, and that something just happens to be run around with guns and confederate flags, yucking it up with a bunch of other slack jawed yockels talking about how great the wild west was and remembering all the great Cowboys and Indians movies they saw. These are the people that brought us the mechanical bull, made Hank Williams Junior famous, and single handedly destroyed our national pride with one presidential election. then four years later a second presidential election. Why should we listen to them now?
Seeing pictures of these toy soldiers running around with night vision goggles, woodland camouflage (in a non-woodland environment), and the claims of an intent to peaceably assemble, while armed to the teeth made me laugh my ass off. They also made me wonder, what on earth do these people actually hope to accomplish?
The short answer is two-fold, they want to make a statement, and hang out with other people who are pissed off about illegal immigrants. They claim that they don’t intend to act as law enforcement, just observe and report and I think at least on the surface, they are being sincere, however their SOP (That’s Standard Operating Procedures to you civilians) do seem to encourage members on “Night Missions” (the military jargon made me chuckle) to turn on the flashlights as a group of undocumented immigrants walked by to “Watch them scatter”.
Anyways, All of this got me wondering what angry rhetoric could get these people motivated to go out to the desert and play army. Let’s find out.
According to their website:
The Minuteman Project is a grassroots effort to bring Americans to the defense of their homeland, similar to the way the original Minutemen from Massachusetts (and other U. S. colonies) did in the late 1700s.
So apparently they are under the impression that the British are planning to retake the colonies via migrant workers.
Right now your thinking, Scott, you’re an asshole. We both know that these people don’t actually believe we are being invaded. Oh contraire mon fraire. Their website continues
the men and women volunteering for this mission are those who are willing to sacrifice their time, and the comforts of a cozy home, to muster for something much more important than acquiring more “toys” to play with while their nation is devoured and plundered by the menace of tens of millions of invading illegal aliens.
Ouch. So it seems that the rednecks are still a bit concerned about the redcoats. Ok, well moving right along here, let’s see where these people think we are in for if we don’t act:
Future generations will inherit a tangle of rancorous, unassimilated, squabbling cultures with no common bond to hold them together, and a certain guarantee of the death of this nation as a harmonious melting pot.
That passage reminds me of a mental image I have of the New York tenements after every major influx of immigration. I’m pretty sure that it was our liberal immigration policy that gave us a melting pot, and the common dream that we all shared, indeed what is motivating these people to come to this country is freedom, but as we have already established, I’m an asshole so what do I know.
According to their website, the end is neigh.
The result: political, economic and social mayhem. Historians will write about how a lax America let its unique and coveted form of government and society sink into a quagmire of mutual acrimony among the various sub-nations that will comprise the new self-destructing America.
I’m not sure what acrimony means but all of that sounds a little bit too Mad-Maxish for this camper. I guess the Statue of Liberty is no longer interested in “your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”. Maybe we should all don our best camouflage fatigues, storm Ellis Island as if reenacting the Normandy Invasion, and replace the Colossus Poem, by force if necessary with a sign that says “Stay the fuck out”.
Huzzah.
This could wind up being one big conservative version of Burning Man however with this many morons, this many guns and this much collective scapegoating, I will be surprised if this goes the full month it is planned for with no violence.