Welcome to Bedwetter Nation

Welcome To Bedwetter Nation

By: John Cole August 26, 2007 at 10:32 am

We are now officially a nation of hysterics: Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge.The sprinkled powder forced hundreds to evacuate an IKEA furniture store Thursday. New Haven ophthalmologist Daniel Salchow, 36, and his sister, Dorothee, 31, who is visiting from Hamburg, Germany, were both charged with first-degree breach of peace, a felony. *** Police fielded a call just before 5 p.m. that someone was sprinkling powder on the ground. The store was evacuated and remained closed the rest of the night. The incident prompted a massive response from police in New Haven and surrounding towns. Daniel Salchow biked back to IKEA when he heard there was a problem and told officers the powder was just harmless flour, which he said he and his sister have sprinkled everywhere from New York to California without incident. This is the real legacy of the last 7 years- a nation so whipped up into a frenzy over terrorism that you, me, anyone could be charged with a felony as long as some hysterical bedwetter somewhere thought we were committing an act of terrorism in our daily life. The Salchow’s are just lucky they are white. If they had biked back to the scene wearing brown skin and attempted to make their way through the crowd to talk to the cops, they probably would have been shot. The fact that this sort of shit is happening with increasing regularity just emboldens politicians to make more laws, take more of your rights, and spend more of your hard earned money in the name of security. How many Americans have died due to terrorist attacks in this country in the last ten years? Two thousand, seven hundred and forty-five. All related to 9/11, save five people that were killed in the anthrax mailings. There simply have been no other attacks- nothing. Nada. Zero. Zilch. The only other thing I can think of that comes close is the DC Sniper, and I can’t even remember his cause, so I am hesistant to call him a terrorist. Again. 2745 dead. That is it. What is the US population? According to the census, 302,703,731. So 2745 out of 302,703,731 in the past ten years have died in terrorist attacks, and we are getting our knickers in a twist about an arrow made of flour in the IKEA parking lot? It is absurd. You are safe. I am safe. This nation is safe. Quit being such a damned pussy. All of you.

Top 10 Quotes Advocating Rebellion

1. “God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty . . . And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
—Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Stevens Smith, November 13, 1787

2. “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom—go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!”
—Samuel Adams, speech, Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776

3. “There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”
—John Adams, Notes for an Oration at Braintree, Spring 1772

4. “The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.”
—George Washington, Farewell Address, September 17, 1796

5. “Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; ’tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.”
—Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 1, December 23, 1776

6. “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.”
—Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C., March 4, 1861

7. “If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained—we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left us.”
—Patrick Henry, Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, March 23, 1775

8. “Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God.”
—Benjamin Frankin, 1776

9. “Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.”
—Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man, 1791

10. “In short, the flames kindled on the 4th of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of depotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.”
—Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, September 12, 1821

From Alternative Reel

How did the ‘Greatest Generation’ give birth to the ‘Most Stupid Generation’?

In reading this story, I came across the quote used in the title.  The quote is awesome.  My grandfather was a member of ‘the greatest generation’.  He grew up during World War I.  He lived through his father dying in the war.  He went on to serve in World War II.  He was a John Birch Republican.  He loved his country and the ideals on which it was founded.  He fought election corruption.  He fought for the beliefs embodied in the US Constitution.  The majority of his peers did the same.  They gave birth to spoiled brats afraid of their own shadow.  These are the people running your government today.  These are the neighbors and peers that fight for safety over liberty.  At least, that’s how it seems.  The practitioners of peace, love, and harmony of the 1960s are the future fascists of America today.

I’ll give up my house and relatively comfy lifestyle to fight a police state.  I’m a gun owner, so I’m already an infidel in the eyes of many.  America still has a way to go before becoming a USSR.  However, the machinery is in place to do so.  Would BlackWater’s standing army be ready to fight the US military over a battle for the Constitution?  Would you?

Battle of Athens

GI’s returning home from WW2, defend freedom once again.