(03-22-2024, 02:16 PM)Snarl Wrote:(03-21-2024, 12:31 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: I am sure if they don't get a handle on this across America, there will be trouble. And it is likely to get bloody. I have a Mennonite friend that told me I am running out of time. He left America not long before COVID. He told me then, "It is time to get out of her."
I am beginning to think he was right.
This one needs to be played a lot smarter than, "Going straight to bloodshed." (Can you believe I said that?)
Best Coarse of Action would be to round 'em up and send them back south as an invasion force. Let America permanently claim all the land they cover.
"It's nice to be nice, but this isn't the time or place for that"
- J.D. LaRue, "Hill Street Blues"
There's a few things worth fighting over, and shelter is not an abstract. My shelter is for me and mine, paid for with our own blood and scraped knuckles and whatnot. If anyone wants what is mine bad enough to invade my turf and try to take it, then I'll give them a 7 foot by 4 foot by 6 foot deep plot of it for their very own.
And that's all of it they get.
In that case, I'm not interested in taking the time and expense of rounding them up and sending them home. When I want them out now, it's going to be NOW, one way or the other.
I don't want any part of their scorpion and gila-infested desert or snake and spider infested jungle to invest the time and expense to send them back to claim it... but I AM willing to spend a dollar and a quarter for a brass-cased, copper jacketed solution to their problem.
MY ancestors fought Indians and Redcoats to make sure I could have this land. I'm willing to fight Wetbacks to maintain it - I'm no better than the raw materials that went to make me. Folks who have watched the Costner version of "The Hatfields and McCoys" or "Next of Kin" or "Justified" have just the barest inkling of what we are like here, but it ought to be enough to keep them off our patch. If they come anyhow, that'll be their problem, not ours.
They might kill one or two of us, but when the rest of the clan burns down the house and shoots whatever flees from the flames, then they will understand, too late, whet a mistake they made when they came here to take what does not belong to them.
"That's what we do here, We shoot people and burn their shit down. It's the Hiillbilly Way"
- Franklin Horton, "Blood and Banjos"
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