Desperados Under the Eaves

On a warm day, a number of months ago, I pulled up to a red light and idled, waiting for the magical green ball to tell me it was cool to proceed through the intersection. Being one who minds her surroundings in traffic, I glanced over to the car next to me. It was a beaten up convertible with an attractive young man behind the wheel. He was playing Warren Zevon on his stereo – not loud, mind you – but, loud enough for me to hear it. When the light changed to green and my fellow traveler pulled ahead of me in traffic, I noticed a Ron Paul bumper sticker on the back of his car. I privately mused that there went an inherently cool person and – very likely – a thinker.

The state of Missouri, however, now considers people like that young man domestic terrorists.

In a recently exposed and much bemoaned report from the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) – titled The Modern Militia Movement – Missouri state police have been advised to keep a keen eye out for what that state considers to be dangerous individuals.

Who are these dangerous, seedy and unseemly types? While the average person would likely consider crack dealers, gangsters, booze-runners, casino owners, thieves, rapists, thugs, Mafiosos, roughnecks and bankers to be dangerous, seedy and unseemly, the MIAC believes those who seek to protect their rights and the rights of their neighbors are the real criminals.

You know. People with Ron Paul bumper stickers.

I shit you not. Reading through the MIAC report is truly reading through an endorsement of something akin to thought policing. The report calls out people who supported third-party candidates like Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr as being part of the modern-day militia group think.

This libelous report also alerts state police that people who disbelieve the official government account of the events of September 11, 2001 are, likewise, enemies of the state. Even though that ‘official’ account has been blown to bits by independent film-makers, architects, pilots and the very fire-fighters who nearly faced certain death to pull the innocents out of the worst tragedy in recent American history.

I may not know much, but I do know this: firemen don’t lie.

The MIAC report claims that people who own guns and invoke their Second Amendment right to do just that are potential threats. Sadly, there is nary a word about police officers who kick the snot out of teenagers in holding cells or shoot prone suspects in the back. To death.

“Except in dreams, you’re never really free…”

The MIAC report espouses that people who choose to school at home are also part of the problem. As someone whose child did the 12-year stint in the public school system, I can tell you that I wish I had the luxury of time to teach him everything the worthless Department of Education left out. When he turned 18-years of age and was eager to register as a voter, he had no clue which party did what and how. He told me he had no such thing as Civics in school.

“The gypsy wasn’t lying…”

Hey, the schools are too busy indoctrinating children into abstaining from intercourse – based on the government’s perception of morals – to teach them things they can actually use in life.

Never mind that abstinence is a moral concept and morals should come from Mum and Dad and not the Department of Education. They actually take time away from learning life skills, government, hygiene, literature, the arts, history and calculus to teach your kid to keep it in his trousers. Isn’t that your job?

Who, precisely, is the terrorist here?

The MIAC report also warns against certain types of films. In particular, Aaron Russo’s From Freedom to Fascism and the film Zeitgeist are called out as potentially anti-government joints.

So?

When did it become anti-American to be anti-Government? Weren’t our own founders just a bit anti-government? Do these people not understand the very reason this country exists is because a group of people got sick and tired of being oppressed? From there, they made a boatload of mistakes, but they worked to fashion a lifestyle for all citizenry that delivered the opportunity to succeed or fail, the ability to defend body and soul, the means to protect family and property and the right to redress of grievance against those who represent and work for us.

“Don’t the trees look like crucified thieves…”

It doesn’t help matters that Missouri’s governor, Jay Nixon, stands behind this smear report against decent human beings who like to think for themselves. It’s empowering everything the so-called paranoids are espousing. You’re either with us or you’re one of ‘them’.

Those who demand liberty from our servant government are being likened to those who would bomb gynecological clinics in this report and that’s simply not the case.

This libelous piece of rubbish must be challenged. Why, in the name of anything decent, would anyone not feel the government who represents us has begun to own us; has run amuck; is incompetent and untrustworthy?

How dare you call me a suspect? You, you bleedingly corrupt, carpet-bagging, lying, greedy, control-hungry bastards are not only the suspects. You are the criminals.

You know you what you think, don’t you? And that makes you — the honest man or honest woman — a domestic terrorist.

“Don’t you feel like desperados under the eaves…”