[Magdalen] Applebee Project

[Jay Weigel]

There are also those who are convinced that the *government* are the bad
guys and are going to come take their guns, put them in FEMA camps, take
their kids and put them in state-run schools, etc., etc,

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I have to say that my son hasn't a racist bone in his body. (Well,
> understanding that we all have some degree of racism in this society.)
> His motivation is just garden-variety paranoia.  He was one of those
> people who was convinced that Y2K was going to be the beginning of the end
> and that I should stockpile a year's worth of food, etc., etc. I finally
> asked him to stop sending me articles from survivalist magazines...
>
> On December 2, 2015, at 4:35 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
> wrote:
>
> From: M J _Mike_ Logsdon
>
> >Someone earlier wondered just how the current gun craze-culture came
> about (or
> >something like that).  My take on it is that in a land that at least in
> our own
> > >heads (collectively speaking) is the ultimate terrestrial "last
> frontier",
> >letting go of how we actually *did* the westward migration, -- for those
> >already gun->oriented --, is hard to let go of.  The result?  "Militias"
> of all
> >stripes, and my favorite current saint of the mindset, Cliven Bundy and
> his
> >"sheriff's the highest >[only?] authority" bunch.  Last year's standoff at
> >gunpoint with federal officers over Bundy's theft of federal monies
> (unpaid
> >grazing fees) made me more sick >than (though not always, so don't worry)
> >listening to The Donald today.
>
> Contemporary Americans have no concept of the "last frontier." But many
> have
> been convinced there are loads of African-American "Bad Guys" ready to loot
> their homes and rape their wives -- thanks in large measure to media
> coverage of
> urban unrest, starting with Watts and a lot of other racist stuff they
> either
> see on TV or interpret as such. I can't think of very many gun
> owners/collectors
> I now who don’t have a racist streak -- ranging from mild to virulent.
> When I
> was in Philipsburg three weeks ago and made a crack about the NRA, there
> were
> several in the audience who later unloaded as to how they need
> "protection" from
> those [N-word] coming up from the city.
>
> In the local Times Tribune here in Scranton, all the Civic-minded and
> Charity=minded people in photos (I counted 1400 locals in photos one week
> -- a
> great print business model) but save for the occasional high school
> football
> star, the only photos of persons of color or Latinos happen to be perps --
> thus
> reinforcing the notion that people need "protection."
>
> As ugly as it gets, I think.
>
> Jim Guthrie
>
>