Far better is to dare mighty things than to take rank with those poor, timid spirits who know neither victory nor defeat. –Theodore Roosevelt

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Though I suspect that it only appeared in the single context from which I recently observed it.

In Olympia, man walking with an umbrella triggers brainless, knee-jerk response in the locals: panic, stupidity, lock down of area schools, and a “manhunt”. READ

Couple of thoughts:

• it’s Olympia. In Washington. State. It rains there. Sometimes lots. People use umbrellas to keep rain off.
• the locals freak out about an ordinary, everyday object and think it’s an “assault rifle”… so they call in people with real assault rifles.
• the usual show of force and herding of the populace ensues.

The mind boggles.

It just occurred to me that the ice-scraper/snow-brush thing I keep in my vehicle will likely, eventually, be mistaken by one of these mental midgets as an evil assault rifle. Guess maybe I should stop storing it in the rifle case in my car.

Wild Bill for America describes another face of evil: they’re just looking for a way to diagnose you as “mentally ill” so they can destroy you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRW-W97OjO8