Unhinged, Indeed

A rose for Cynthia

Earlier in the week we linked to this Las Vegas Review story about Oath keepers [Depending on your perspective, the Oath Keepers are either strident defenders of liberty or dangerous peddlers of paranoia.]  Sigh.  Every member publication of the Democrat Media Complex has at least one staffer whose job it is to look at everything through the racial prism.  That this makes them a racist by definition is an irony that escapes them.  The Atlanta Constitution fills their ("left-wing" would be a redundancy) race-baiter slot with Cynthia Tucker.  Here she is today. They’ve been watching Red Dawn again “ The paranoia and racism of the unhinged fringe ought to be taken seriously, and it seems the Secret Service is doing exactly that. According to a report in the Boston Globe, President Obama has drawn an unprecedented number of threats against his life, overwhelming the ability of the Secret Service to check out all the lunatics to see how serious they are.  <snip> ... there are moments when the paranoia of the wingnuts is almost comical. A new group called Oath Keepers has pledged to keep the feds from violating the Second Amendment by confiscating weapons. Formed in March, they are ex-military and police who repledge themselves to defend the Constitution, even if it means disobeying orders. If the U.S. government ordered law enforcement agencies to violate Second Amendment rights by disarming the people, Oath Keepers will not obey. “The whole point of Oath Keepers is to stop a dictatorship from ever happening here,” says founding father Stewart Rhodes, an ex-Army paratrooper and Yale-trained lawyer. “My focus is on the guys with the guns, because they can’t do it without them. ” And then Cynthia slips on the slope “ Hey, people believe what they want. That’s what makes this a great country. But, really, folk, the government has nuclear weapons and F-16s. If by some convoluted Manchurian takeover [say, by a Marxist Zero with no experience and no history?], the feds wanted a dictatorship, would your hunting rifles stop them? ” I have watched Red Dawn recently. Powers Booth Fighter pilot, and Wolverine Colonel Andy Tanner  played the role of fighter pilot, and Wolverine, Col. Andy Taylor.  Pilots swear an oath to protect the constitution too, Cynthia.