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Joker: ‘Patriots’ Fantasize Re: Chaos

Joker offers his thoughts on the recent Patriots confab at Farragut State Park:

The joyful glee exhibited by those attended this weekend’s apocalypse-palooza is profoundly unnerving.   They want to see death and suffering.  They want to see society breakdown into chaos. They’re rooting for a second civil war to break out. They want everybody with a skin tone darker than healthy tan expelled from this country.  They want to have kangaroo tribunals with summary executions of those they disagree with politically. They want madness.  They want violence.  They dream of pulling the trigger on their fellow Americans. It’s sick. You have to wonder how a person arrives at such demented perspective on the world and why they revel in the idea of a total collapse of America. That’s not patriotic, it’s perversion. More below.

Question: Do you really think, as Joker does, that "Patriots" fantasize re: war against the federal government?

They’re not really for liberty or freedom. They want tyranny. They want oppression. They want to be in charge.  They want to live in a world where they rule because in their own lives – they have no power.

They have fantasies being the last survivors of the human race or the victors in an overthrow of our government.  These people are deluded. They believe they can win a war against the United States government with some AR-15 rifles and some .50 caliber machine guns. They wouldn’t last 10 minutes against the most powerful military in the history of man.  What’s their ace in the hole, frozen food and walk talkies?

I hope that people wake up to the inherently evil and twisted message that’s being propagated by the political crazies that have infiltrated our political system.  Matt Shea and Vito Barbieri need to be removed from office – not by wishing for a gun battle, but at the ballot box.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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