A Vandalized Valley

Somewhere in CA. Kind of long and depressing. Makes me think of "Clockwork Orange".

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/ ... vis-hanson

"While the elites make excuses, citizens cope with theft and destruction.




I am starting to feel as if I am living in a Vandal state, perhaps on the frontier near Carthage around a.d. 530, or in a beleaguered Rome in 455. Here are some updates from the rural area surrounding my farm, taken from about a 30-mile radius. In this take, I am not so much interested in chronicling the flotsam and jetsam as in fathoming whether there is some ideology that drives it."

What's an "elite"? A Republican anti-intellectual who thinks Bachmann, Palin and Perry are smart?

There is indeed something of the Dark Ages about all this.

There is, indeed, but I doubt the author of the piece has connected just what "something" that is.

neptunechimney wrote: Somewhere in CA. Kind of long and depressing. Makes me think of "Clockwork Orange".

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/ ... vis-hanson

"While the elites make excuses, citizens cope with theft and destruction.




I am starting to feel as if I am living in a Vandal state, perhaps on the frontier near Carthage around a.d. 530, or in a beleaguered Rome in 455. Here are some updates from the rural area surrounding my farm, taken from about a 30-mile radius. In this take, I am not so much interested in chronicling the flotsam and jetsam as in fathoming whether there is some ideology that drives it."

He's a racist.

LadyJazzer wrote: What's an "elite"? A Republican anti-intellectual who thinks Bachmann, Palin and Perry are smart?

No, it's you.

I'll take that as a compliment from the intellectual-race-to-the-bottom conservatives.

LadyJazzer wrote: I'll take that as a compliment from the intellectual-race-to-the-bottom conservatives.

You could take a piece of sh*t and call it a cuban cigar... it's will still be a piece of sh*t. Your self-delusions doesn't change the facts. If I have to spell that out for you... It wasn't a compliment.

Maybe he wants to go back to hue and cry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hue_and_cry

In common law, a hue and cry is a process by which bystanders are summoned to assist in the apprehension of a criminal who has been witnessed in the act of committing a crime.

By the Statute of Winchester of 1285, 13 Edw. I cc. 1 and 4, it was provided that anyone, either a constable or a private citizen, who witnessed a crime shall make hue and cry, and that the hue and cry must be kept up against the fleeing criminal from town to town and from county to county, until the felon is apprehended and delivered to the sheriff. All able-bodied men, upon hearing the shouts, were obliged to assist in the pursuit of the criminal, which makes it comparable to the posse comitatus. It was moreover provided that a hundred that failed to give pursuit on the hue and cry would become liable in case of any theft or robbery. Those who raised a hue and cry falsely were themselves guilty of a crime.[1]