by Wilbur Witt
I really don't know much about the Tea Party. I've seen some gatherings in Georgetown, but wrote them off as some local group. They all looked civilized. I mean we've got Nazis running around here right now shooting DAs, I guess even the Hell's Angels would look civilized after that! But I caught this article this morning and something dawned on me. The people in New Mexico are standing up to the Feds and just saying, "No!" Now I'm just a simple old boy from Austin, but the last time anybody stood up to the boys from Washington they burned his ass up in Waco. But these people intrigued me.
Governments and people will only take license to run your business when you give them that license. I mean, if you're really breaking the law, like robbing, assaulting, and so forth, then the police will take you to task, and I know from personal experience that they always bring one more cop than they need. But, when someone suddenly makes something illegal that was legal the day before yesterday, you may back them up if you form a group and just tell the law makers to take a number and sit down. That's exactly what the people in New Mexico are doing. The government tells one old lady to shut down her oil well because it may hurt the environment, she stands up at a meeting and tells them she's NOT going to turn her oil well off, and furthermore, if they come on her land she's going to shoot them, and she's got enough guns and family to do it! The entire room full of people leaped to their feet and shouted, "YEAH!" The oil well is still pumping today.
Now I believe the government could very well charge in there and beat this old lady, but do they really want to do that? Do they really want a shoot out, trying to enforce some politically correct rule that some beaurocrat dreamed up trying to save a spotted owl? And what happens if the whole county stands up? I mean where does by the people, for the people, and of the people come to and end? If someone in a think tank in Washington dreams up a plan, and all the PEOPLE just say, "No, we're not going to do that," then where's the problem, save frying a few owls?
This is the spirit of the Republic of Texas is just that. I think the people of New Mexico are picking up on this spirit. The federal government has been a runaway train for too long, with the implied threat that there's nothing anyone can do about them, and if anyone tries they'll just beat them up. They have micromanaged themselves into a corner so tight that they tried to turn off one old lady's oil well in the middle of a desert, and she just called their bluff! Spotted Owl, anyone?
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