The vigilantes are at it again, those pesky little rifle-toting ruffians. They erected half a mile of border wall down there in New Mexico funded by donations and helped by good ol\u2019 boy Stevie Bannon, no permits, no problem, just waited til a long Memorial Day weekend then slapped it up. Some of the same folks who feel called upon to patrol the desert regions with rifles and their own posse. Patriots. <\/p>\n
Now, in full disclosure, I\u2019ve been known to ignore building permits myself. In even fuller disclosure, mostly I try to ignore building permits and suchlike, not sure I have a real good reason other than plain orneriness, probably not much of a justification, but there you are. Course, I don\u2019t build on other folks\u2019 properties and I don\u2019t take into my own hands to build walls where I\u2019d like to see one even if others don\u2019t. I mean, I could put up a border crossing barrier at the bridge onto the island, maybe keep the traffic down a bit and slow the population boom. Make me happy if not the realtors and the commuters trying to make it back home after work. Just saying.<\/p>\n
I lived a couple years in Northern Wisconsin with the Posse Comitatus as neighbors. Nice folks, the Posse. Gun toting freedom lovers. They had some pretty hard notions what counted as patriotism. At least for white folks. And folks as religious as they claimed to be, which, between you and me, wasn\u2019t much. Sure they wouldn\u2019t like Mexicans. Or Muslims. Probably wouldn\u2019t care to sit next to a Canadian either, but they might be fooled, thinking they were just ordinary folks, not snow-crazed liberals or whacky Francophiles. Truth is, they didn\u2019t like hardly anybody who wasn\u2019t them or close family. Some people just have poison running through their veins, I don\u2019t pretend to know why.<\/p>\n
These cowboys down in New Mexico, same breed. Full of piss and vinegar, full of themselves, full of anger, plenty full of righteousness. Scary folks, for sure, and nothing I\u2019d care to tolerate. But if it\u2019s a wall they want, I say let\u2019s build one around the White House, hammer it up while Trump is watching Fox and Friends with the volume up loud, explain next morning we just wanted to keep his enemies out, not him in. I think that makes sense and I\u2019m sure he will too. You want to help, I\u2019m taking donations. Thanks for your help. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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