Sunday, January 02, 2005

Snug and warm?

If you don't believe any of this, if you think
this is some 'short story', you haven't been paying
attention.

Time to wake up.
But let’s say you’re lucky. You’ve somehow
managed to keep your house. And you’re cozied up
snug and warm in your bed. It’s after midnight.
You don’t know there’s a dozen very large men
gathered on your front lawn, trampling your
petunias. They’re festooned in paramilitary
Kevlar from jackboot to tinted helmet visor and
they’re stoned on adrenaline and testosterone.
They bash in your door with a custom door basher.
They scream letters from a Post Alpha-Bits cereal
box like "FBI!" and "DEA!" and "BATF!" and
challenge you to the children’s tag game of
"Freeze!" They point muzzles of seriously lethal
weaponry in your face. They drag you out of bed,
dressed only in your boxer shorts with the little
red hearts and cupids, and cuff your wrists
behind your back. Then they spend the next three
hours ransacking your house from soap dish to
breadbox. Eventually, someone with keys and bad
breath removes your handcuffs with a muttered,
"Oops, wrong house."

It’s at this precise moment that I want you to
turn to your partner in home ownership and say,
"Libertarians are always bashing government. If
it wasn’t for government we’d have nothing but
chaos."

Then these same Libertoonians jump up and run for
political office, and by doing so sanction the
idea they're bashing.

Why do you suppose they continue to play their
enemy's game, by their enemy's rules...and continue
losing?

Looks like a form of fundamental stupidity to
me.

Wouldn't it be simpler to just thump their little
Libertoonian heads against a well-constructed wall?

Time for another solution, boys and girls, but
you'll just have to work it out yourselves, one
at a time.

And keep ur guns at home, on a rack in ur pick-em-up
or on the firing range. I don' wanna hear about
mobs of you runnin' down the street with guns and
wavin' magical shit like flags and Constiytushuns
at the idiots to get whut u want.

Patience, with a little help from ur friends and
very few folks will get hurt.

And it'll be a helluva lot more fun.

Read it all if you wanna know why you propity owners
is fucked.