(04-03-2026, 10:13 PM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: What?
It ain't a sin to beat up a banker or revenuer. Why, that's the opposite of sinning. You hill folk should know that, after all, it's the Gospel truth.
Next thing you'll be telling me is that tar and feathering a Yankee carpet bagger and sending him outta town on a rail ain't right either.
Now now... I never said it was wrong, I just said it was violent. You're quite correct that whompnig revenoors is not a sin, and is in fact God's Work! I reckon that's my point - one can do violence without sinning.
Now, here in the hills, I don't think there are any laws against tar and feathering carpetbaggers AND scalawags... and other assorted heathenish folks of their ilk and kind, but instead of riding them out of town on a rail, I prefer tossing them off a cliff after they get a good coating of feathers, to see if they can fly.
Not BEFORE they get good and feathered, though. I believe in giving folks a fighting chance. Maybe if they flap hard enough, they CAN fly - I've just never seen it work yet.
Of course, the assumption there is that carpetbaggers and scalawags are "folks", which is not a proven fact.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake