It’s called ‘hi-jacking a thread’ - something FR has long been against....
Also, most Freepe4rs can voice their opinion with resorting to insults.
Insults are the DU type tactics when on thin grounds
rant on
Only hijacking being done by you. One guy posts to me and I respond. You need to stop thinking like the Lecturing Liberal you are.
By the way, Easterner, ever been to Kanab, or Hildale, or Burns, or John Day, or Sandpoint, or Challis, or really anywhere out here?
Have any clue why these people think like they do, what their history is?
Ever driven 89 all the way from the Mexican border to the Canadian border? 89A Up through Sedona and Oak Creek, Page and Kanab, through Salt Lake to the Star Valley and up through Hoback Junction and Jackson to the Park? Then up through Gardiner and the rest of Montana to Canada?
I have as far North as Livingston. Went to Canada over in Idaho up past the lake (you look it up).
Grew up on the southern end and my father was from the northern end, a cowboy turned attorney. The West is what our family settled. In the 19th century, you didn’t call the Federal Government for anything: you were on your own, the Cavalry was days away. At least back then they were mostly on the side of the Americans...except in the case of the Mormons, who were definitely out there on their own. The government was always there to push them. Believe me, they remember. I am not one though distant relatives went with Young on the Emigration and I’m related to much of the people of Northern Utah because of that.
Look at their names: Anglo-Saxon names. Their ancestors WERE the Americans. Because of their isolation, they are still a remnant population of the original settlers: not just of the West, but America.
And who might the men of the government in DC be? People whose ancestors came what, 1 generation ago? Maybe 2?
And with them they bring the disease of Statism because they never knew the hardship of self reliance and self government. Like Russian serfs, they know only to obey, and expect to be fed for it.
They are not The Americans. The people they pursue are. Those people remember from their family histories, from their own experience, from the solace of living in the open West, what it means to be free on the land.
What legitimacy does such a government have?