Well, I don’t know what to think of a person who can’t discuss a topic without blowing up and using foul language when they are actually losing an argument. It is somewhat interesting and yet it is quite disappointing when it comes from the former mayor of Salina, Kansas, who happens to claim he is a Republican.
Sadly enough, he is hook-line and sinker in the GOP establishment group, not the group who refuses to sell out to the left. I am astonished at this man’s vulgar mouth. What came spewing from his mouth, I wouldn’t have in my hand, unless I was taking a sample for testing for worms. Yes, he has a potty mouth to say the least. And he likes to use a word similar to fornication as well, but we won’t go there.
It was a simple discussion on Facebook that was on the situation in Oregon about the militia taking over the federal building in response to the Bureau of Land Management sending two ranchers to prison. The whole thing is simple. These ranchers had contracts with the BLM (Bureau of Land Management not black lives matter) on some land leases. They had an agreement with the BLM to burn some of the land, to improve it. Then the BLM backed out after they agreed and agreed that the burning (which was controlled and did no damage to anything except the brush that needed controlled)was beneficial and improved the land. THEN the BLM changed their minds and pressed charges and the men when to prison, I think it was for 3 years. THEN the BLM wanted them to spend more time in prison after they served. So, the militia steps in and we have a stand off to protect these men.
BUT,, this gets more intriguing. The BLM is pushing these ranchers to the limit and they may have to sell some land to pay their legal fees. BUT guess what? The BLM has first dibs on the land that is sold, if it sells. Doesn’t that sound kind of screwy to you? I think that is government tyranny. It is not good and someone needs to step in and stop them.
So this is the story we were discussing. I was accused of being an idiot and a lot of other not nice things by this former mayor. He called me uninformed. I explained that I have read the Constitution, John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government, Much of the Federalist Papers and other historical documents so that I could understand the true meaning of the Constitution. The Second Amendment provides for a militia, to protect from tyrannical leaders and armies. They are to protect the people from unjust situations, which is exactly what that rancher situation is with the BLM. Still, when I retorted with my education of the historical documents and such, I was told I did not understand what they meant. And the vulgarities continued. It is a shame that someone who was in a position of a representative of Salina, Kansas behaves in such a way. You can tell he has no regard for me and I can gather from that, his attitude was the same when he was mayor.
I was attacked that I was not a real Republican and that I was basically anti-government. Well, I do not approve of the current government behavior and I wish it were more like what our Founding Fathers established but I am not anti-government. I am anti-raping the people and the country. I am anti-establishment behaviors of selling the people and the country out to things and people I do not approve of. But sadly, this man made excuse after excuse and called names instead of discussing facts. he didn’t like it when I spouted that I had read all those documents to understand things. What is a person to do? You have to read things to understand what was written. I understand Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness is to live how I want, do as I want to make myself happy as long as it does not infringe on others same rights. How can agreeing with the militia mean that I am an idiot? He accused me of living off the government because I make less than 25K a year. I explained I pay my own way, my own health insurance with NO subsidies as my insurance does not qualify. I pay my student loans and I live in a shed with no running water because I cannot afford a real house. I am not ashamed of my situation and I am working to better it, but it takes time. I am not stupid and I am smarter than most people. Life just put me in a bad situation. STill, being called foul things by a former mayor is quite concerning. He has no respect for me and it is clear as a mayor, he had no respect for anyone who wouldn’t do things to benefit him. Is that a real republican? WEll, a real establishment republican maybe, certainly not the new conservative republicans. Oh well. I have been called worse but not by a former mayor. Shame on you Mr. Name-caller.