{"id":28854,"date":"2012-02-23T10:07:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T14:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28854"},"modified":"2012-09-11T02:16:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T06:16:31","slug":"hippie-threatens-gun-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28854","title":{"rendered":"Hippie threatens gun play"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, USAToday<\/a> dared to run an opinion piece that declared the Occupy movement had disappeared with a wimper;<\/p>\n

the Occupiers chose a course best described as doing nothing. They did nothing day after day, week after week, under the mistaken belief that camping in public plazas would prompt some kind of action from others.<\/p>\n

Eventually it did, as patient-but-fed-up city governments moved to dismantle the encampments amid concerns about public safety and sanitation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, some hippie named Rich Latta, not surprisingly from Austin took exception<\/a> to the characterization.<\/p>\n

Your piece accuses the protesters of sitting around and doing nothing. So maybe they should take up their Second Amendment-sanctioned guns and storm Wall Street and our nation’s capitals. If our country doesn’t change, it could very well come to that one day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to other sources on the internet, Rich Latta is a massage therapist by trade, so pardon me if I’m not particularly worried about a massage therapist who threatens gun violence. Especially when you realize that he’s talking about other people perpetrating that gun violence and not his stick-boy body.<\/p>\n

The Daily Caller<\/a>‘s Jim Treacher writes;<\/p>\n

Wow. Just imagine how Janet Napolitano would react if a \u201cright-wing extremist\u201d talked about \u201cstorming Wall Street and our nation\u2019s capitals\u201d with guns. Everybody freaked out when Tea Partiers brought registered weapons to rallies. MSNBC even tried to (literally) frame a black guy as a gun-toting white racist.<\/p>\n

But an Occupier publishes a letter in a national newspaper about \u201cstorming Wall Street\u201d with guns, and I don\u2019t find out about it until a week later. It\u2019s not seen as a credible threat, despite the fact that Occupy\u2019s rap sheet dwarfs that of the Tea Party. Rich Latta of Austin, TX isn\u2019t being investigated for his threat, because it isn\u2019t politically convenient.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, and no one is particularly worried about a message therapist who threatens that someday him and his fellow hippies might actually do anything besides bitch and whine.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Old Trooper for one of those links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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