The Partisan Divide on Issues

[David Horn]

(08-19-2020, 12:30 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(08-18-2020, 06:47 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(08-18-2020, 02:39 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: But the neighborhood vigilantes which Classic claims membership with and the rural militias are not yet engaged.  Plan quietly, sure.  Let rumors spread might be less wise.  They might actually do as suggested.

Some of the idiots at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville conceive of themselves as members of citizen militias.  Some are local to me. In fact, entire groups of them showed up in our state capital to defend the statues on Monument Row, looking a lot like small arms infantry.  Don't discount these guys as Cosplay (some are, but only some).  When they show up, they are armed, locked and only need to chamber a round to start the festivities.

It only takes one idiot to start things.

I wonder who the idiot was that fired the shot that triggered the American Revolutionary War or the idiot/idiots was or were who fired the cannon that triggered the Civil American War.

In the first case, it was a Brit who killed Crispus Attucks, the runaway slave who died at Bunker Hill, or Christopher Seider, an 11 year old boy who died there as well. I can't identify the idiot who fired first and triggered the ACW, though the real culprit was a politician, not a militiaman. In today's world, it could be anyone from any where and with any reason, no matter how bizarre.