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[Cheeetar]

When in doubt, resort to the good old strawman fallacy!

It was irony.  A bit too dry, maybe?

I think the word you're looking for is sarcasm, but I could be wrong.

[RedKing]

You know what the best part about those "Hutaree Militia" guys is?  After they were arrested, they asked what "Hutaree" stands for.  Turns out, nothing.  It's just a vaguely Aramaic-sounding word they made up for a name.  Dumbasses really were living in a cordite-fueled pubescent fantasy world.

Actually, the fantasy world thing is pretty much a staple for the militia movement. Ever read the Turner Diaries? Or the kind of paranoid black-helicopter screed that infused the mid-90's? Most terrorist groups necessitate a skewed world view if you're going to be a participant. Religious terrorist groups take that to a whole new level. They have to see a literal apocalyptic cosmic war against evil in the here and now, and see themselves as soldiers on the front line of that cosmic war. While a lot of the militia movements aren't as blatantly religious, they've appropriated the whole "guerrilla war against TEH EVIL" meme.


That's how you get people to think that blowing up a building full of government employees is a good thing. That assassinating doctors is a good thing. That armed insurrection against the elected government of the United States is the only patriotic option. That Federal law enforcement should be ambushed, killed, and then their funeral processions bombed with IEDs.

Part of me is ready for these people to bring it. There are plenty of law enforcement personnel who will be happy to send these people to meet their dear and fluffy Lord. But the more rational part of me knows that this isn't a fantasy world, and that good people would likely die in that instance, even if it did mean some sorely-needed cleaning of the gene pool.

[eerr]

Obviously not everybody got that memo about civility.

We need new methods to make people unragey.

We can totally do this, but I'm sure we'll have to beat some people.

What'da ya say?

[Bauglir]

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[Jude]

 That armed insurrection against the elected government of the United States is the only patriotic option.

Well, to be fair, that WAS the original intent of the second amendment. The idea was to give the people the ability to kill their government if they so chose.

Of course, we don't take the intent of the founding fathers as divine guiding principle anymore, otherwise we would still have slaves