Rattlesnake Logic After the Boston bombing the news media has spent days and weeks trying to determine why these men did what they did. They want to know what America did to make these brothers so angry with us. They want to know why these men were not arrested before they did something so terrible. The media is in a tizzy about this new era of home grown radicals, and about why they could live among us and still hate us.
A friend of mine from Texas explained it all to me:
“Here in west Texas I have rattlesnakes on my place, living among us. I have killed a rattlesnake on the front porch. I have killed a rattlesnake on the back porch. I have killed rattlesnakes in the barn, in the shop and on the driveway. In fact, I kill every rattlesnake I encounter. I kill rattlesnakes because I know a rattlesnake will bite me and inject me with poison. I don’t stop to wonder why a rattlesnake will bite me; I know: It will bite me because it's a rattlesnake and that's what rattlesnakes do. I don’t try to reason with a rattlesnake…I just kill it. I don’t try to get to know the rattlesnake better so I can find a way to live with the rattlesnakes and convince them not to bite me…I just kill them. I don’t quiz a rattlesnake to see it I can find out where the other snakes are, because (a) it won’t tell me, and (b) I already know they live on my place. So, I just kill the rattlesnake and move on to the next one.
I don’t look for ways I might be able to change the rattlesnake to a non-poisonous rat snake...I just kill it. Oh, and on occasion, I accidentally kill a rat snake because I thought it was a rattlesnake at the time. Also, I know, for every rattlesnake I kill, two more are lurking out there in the brush. In my lifetime I will never be able to rid my place of rattlesnakes. Do I fear them? No!
Do I respect what they can do to me? Yes! And because of that respect I give them the fair justice they deserve...I kill them....”
Maybe as a country we should start giving more thought to the fact that these jihadists' are just being like rattlesnakes, and act accordingly!
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7 comments:
Great. So all we have to do is kill or arrest every person who has a big flashing sign around their neck that says "I'M A TERRORIST". Should be super easy, since that's a thing that happens in the real world.
For the right wingers being all anticommunist/Stain, this is a pretty Stalinist way of thinking. God forbid that we try to understand other people so that we can reason with them to deter them from trying to attack people, when it is way easier to put a bullet in their head. Maybe instead of reasoning with them the U.K. should have turned Ireland into a smoking crater and the U.S. should have outlawed St. Patrick’s day citing it to be supporting the terrorists. Oh wait sorry those were white Catholics...
So Right Wingers think that jihadists are like mindless, dangerous animals. I'm sure the jihadists have the same opinion of them. May they find common ground together in hell.
And wingers stop being afraid of every shadow. It's not patriotic or admirable, it is sniveling, weak excuse to hate anyone who doesn't look and act like you.
So how does one determine just exactly who is a terrorist or jihadist? Oh yeah: in rightwingnutistan, it's anyone who's "looks" you don't like. So just come out shootin' like George Zimmerman & Bob's yer uncle.
Nifty-swifty.
Mebbe too bad if yer of some sort of southern Mediterranean descent and happen not to have lily white skin. But hey! That's the sperm/egg lottery for ya!
Just like all the propoganda in the corporate-fascist media who are demonizing Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev and - what a surprise! - declaring them GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY before there's even a trial.
It wasn't all that long ago that this nation used to adhere to the Rule of Law that says, citizens are INNOCENT until proven guilty at trial.
Rightwingers are all keen and eager to see such rights and liberties to be torn up and tossed down the toilet... for all those nasty "others" of whom they have been carefully brainwashed to be vastly and greatly AFRAID of.
Too bad that when you toss away those rights & liberties, it ALSO means that YOUR rights and liberties have been tossed away, as well.
Think that your lilly white ass will always be "safe." Yeah, cracker, guess again. Not so much, if the Brown Shirts decide they don't like they way you "look."
Fools.
Comparing people to snakes. It like comparing a car to a fence.
When we erode other's rights to a fair trial, to learn what was behind what happened, we erode our own at the same time.
Everyone wants to be able to defend themselves, if "caught" doing something people misunderstood as a crime? Now, we may know the media story, and we "know" he is guilty without having been there, right? There is a lot of evidence against him and we are as sure as we can be without having been there. But what if it is something more every day that get's you pulled over? You are absolutely sure you didn't swerve drunkenly or speed but the video someone took has an angle on you that showed differently. In order to keep our freedom from a misunderstanding we have to allow due process. Or we would end up in jail for crimes we appeared to commit.
For all of you that want to defend the rights of the fanatical Muslim groups ... you may some day wish you hadn't . Keep it up and you'll be ordering a prayer rug from Amazon.com
Except rattlesnakes are not sapient so it's not the same.
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