Granby, CO under seige

[sendec]

"Why do you see this fellow as the bad guy?"

This is a joke, right, to go with the cutesy cartoons?

I am buying stock in Alcoa. Cops are evil for the draconian measures they take to make us wear seatbelts, and this guy is a poster child for the "I'll Show Them" set and nearing canonization in the welding hall of fame.

 

[El Rojo]

Wow, there sure is a lot of assumptions being made here. Just because you are impressed with a guy's creation of a tank-dozer and you find it entertaining that the local body of government went after the guy
(or only appeared to go after the guy) only to have the guy fight back and cause them millions of dollars worth of damage, it doesn't mean that one necessarily finds "comfort in the evil acts of madmen". We can talk about the what ifs all we want, but the facts remain, he didn't kill anyone. I think it would have been interesting had he not killed himself and what he would have been charged with and how much time he would have served over this thing. It would have most certainly made things more difficult for the powers that be. Now his story is pretty much dead along with him and even if he was dealt a bad hand, no one is going to believe it now. Oh well. Life goes on.

 

[Roadkill Coyote]

Your right that there are a lot of assumptions flying around, nothing wrong with admiring his welding, and I'm not saying that I've never felt a twinge of sympathy for the wrong side. However, feeling some good about this guys actions because it will leave the local government looking over their shoulder most certainly is taking some comfort from it. There may be cases wherein that is deserved, but the automatic assumption that it is in every case of someone opposing government (as seems to be the trend) is wrong.

I merely believe that when drawing a bright line for the conduct of government, we should probably draw an equally bright one for ourselves.





Is this part of that Yeehawism thing that I've heard so much about?

Edited to add: Hmmm, I should probably change my sig line before I start pontificating, shouldn't I?

 

[dustind]

I'm surprised some of our anti-gov types aren't rushing off to reinforce the guy...

That is a funny comment comming from a Green. Considering he went after private property, and did not harm anyone.