From the AP:
A man accused of threatening a Nevada Republican Party official with a rifle was arrested Tuesday in a vehicle in which police found swords, knives, a shotgun, shells and a flare gun, authorities said.
Matthew Hunter Kramer, 31, did not resist officers who arrested him on a warrant issued after the April 3 confrontation at state Republican Party offices in Las Vegas. It wasn’t clear why he was not arrested earlier.
Zachary Moyle, executive director of the state GOP, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Kramer invited him to look at something in the trunk of his Mercedes before pulling out a rifle, pointing it at his face and warning that he would be back if President Bush vetoed an emergency war spending bill being considered by Congress.
I haven’t had the chance to check Huffpo or the Democratic Underground to catch the reaction to this story (if they even acknowledge it), but somehow I doubt “gun control” will come up—unless it’s used to point out that a Republican deserves to get threatened with a rifle, given that he’s probably a puppet for the NRA, anyway.
Blowback. And a pinch of nuance.
In fact, I wonder if this kind of behavior meets those Greewald(s) / Mona criteria for doing everything possible to take back the country from the evil neocons, who should be shunned and dehumanized.
Because, you know—while we shouldn’t ‘t condone violence, sometimes it takes a stark act of defiance to signal the nation’s underlying pain and rage. Or some such horseshit.
Anyway, can we all agree now that the moral high ground is still up for grabs and not just a de facto position held by anti-war types—at least some of whom, evidently, fancy themselves progressive ninjas…?
(h/t Major John)
No, we cannot agree to that.
To agree to that would require that every individual be responsible for his or her own actions rather than on the pass/fail basis of political affiliation. And that would be, like, a lot of work, and stuff.
I had to check the time to make sure timmyb hadn’t made his appearance in person.
Ut venaient omnes. If they’re not going to shoot, they’re not really going to take over, are they? Nothing illustrates the flabbiness of the modern Left more than the story of a guy who threatens someone with a gun, and then lets them disarm him. I suppose we should be grateful for that, though.
There’s a strange culture of impotence on the Left, isn’t there?
Using a rifle isn’t very ninja-like.
Given the scoundrel was brandishing a firearm, couldn’t we simply conclude that he was more worried about funding for the troops than the surrender date and pork? I mean, c’mon, the guy had to be a Republican, right? Right?
Criminal whatever is a new one on me, but I would bet that’s a violent crime, and in Nevada, that means he’’ll be disenfranchised if convicted, near as I can tell. That’s kind of ironic.
Well, he’s obviously just a practitioner of: <a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_fu” target=”_blank”>
Hey, screw you, Goldstein!
my country ‘tis of theee, sweet land of libery, of thee i sing…”
GodGaia Bless America!Now that’s funny! I concur!
Aw, crap.
Gun fu? Gun kata?!
Heck, I’ll just stick with M-4 fu m’self… although MK-19 kata might not be too bad either.
WHY HASN’T timmyb COVERED THIS YET?!? WHY IS HE SOOOO INTERESTED IN COVERING UP TEH TRUTH!!
You missed the action here this morning, Hoodluman. Timmy is…no longer with us. And madly emailing everyone and anyone in the comments section from this post.
I’m betting he didn’t miss the action, kelly.
And timmah’s electronic logorrhea is why I’m not posting here…oh, crap. Whoops!
No, it isn’t.
But I was more referring to this:
Swords and knives. And maybe even flares.
NINJA!
Maybe he’s a progressive pirate? They use swords and knives.
Do you think the seashells and flare gun came off of his boat?
Oddball ran for Mayor of Santa Barbara in 2005:
http://www.smartvoter.org/2005/11/08/ca/sba/race/4061/
For being the youngest Eagle Scout EVAR, he wasn’t all that prepared for what comes after his outburst.
Ah, the party of Democracy.
Teenage Mutant Proggie Ninjas!
Proggies on the half-ass:
Proggie Power!
Not passing the smell test. L. Ron Hubbard made the same unsubstantiated claim about being the youngest Eagle scout.
Generally this degree of success early on would not lead to being a gun-waving crackpot failed mayoral candidate. I suspect he’s caught The Crazy.
tachyonshuggy,
You mean TEH CRAZY!!11!1!, right? Man, I hope that isn’t contagious.
Don’t pick at it!!11!1!
Crap…too late.
Poor bastard.
And folks wonder why generally stay armed whenever possible… (Well, that and the normal amount of crime back home)
Because how dare the President use something so…so…Constitutiony.
When did the Democrats become infested with such profoundly unserious people?
My guess is the McGovernite hijacking of things and everything fell apart after that. Although the thought of McGovern, Jimmah, Fritz, Dukakis, and Kerry in ninja garb is great comedy.
Good to see he beat out a guy who changed his name to “Thinker”.
I live in Santa Barbara.
Mayor Marty Blum leads anti war marches and wants the City Council to vote to impeach Bush.
Our Rep. Lois Capps looks like Cindy Sheehan, shares her politics…. but is much less shrill.
Thank God for small blessings.
Some loyal dissenter sets up 3000 plus crosses on the sand every weekend so our heroes can be used to further a political agenda… I don’t think I could put so much as an umbrella up down there without a permit.
Funny though. we’ve sent a few to Iraq in spite of the opposition.
Nice article a few weeks ago about a local kid who flies the Apache. His dad is a cardiologist who has since enlisted in the Reserves (in his 50’s)
Ouch. 1st and second amendments dont go that far dude!
Well is this a stand up fight or a bug hunt?
Ummm a exnomorph may be involved.
Huh!!!
It’s a bug hunt.
You sheeple are missing out on who the obvious bad guy here is…(wait for it)…It’s BOOOOO$H!!!1!1!
Because Kramer obviously had a “high-capacity clip” for his rifle (even if he didn’t) that he wouldn’t have had if BOOOO$H had re-authorized the Assault Weapons ban.
And besides, he was only supporting the troops. He wanted the emergency war spending bill to pass, after all.
One wonders about the stealthy garb of a progressive ninja.
Black 100% organic cotton?
Silkscreen of Che on the back?
Oh, oh, and a beret! Gotta have the beret!
Armed with a corkscrew…
Not buying it until I hear he had some of those throwing star things. Maybe he was acting out Grand Theft Auto in real life. Romanticizing thug violence is a big hit with us proggs.
Moops – now that is better! See, I knew you had it in ya. Well played.
If it turns out he was wearing black parachute pants, can we trade that out for the throwing stars?
Or would that make Billy Squier and MC Hammer Ninjas too, in retrospect?
Jeff:
Only if he is also wearing Birkenstocks.
And the beret, dammit!
Jeff,
only if by Ninja you mean pink-tight wearing, SEXY DANCING, SUPER NINJAS…er from hell. Will that make it more tough?
I gotta turn off email-notification, I’ll never get any work done.
“Maybe he was acting out Grand Theft Auto in real life.”
Have you ever had to drive somewhere right after playing Grand Theft Auto? You have to keep reminding yourself that you can’t run over pedestrians.
TW: boys17 will be boys.
Duh, hemp of course.
He wasn’t a Ninja. Ninja’s are minimalists and use their surroundings to improvise and dispatch their foes all stealthy like.
This dude was obviously stealthy-challenged. He had to invite the guy to his trunk….I wonder if that was an Iga village trick…hmmm.
Anywho, my own search of the liberal half of the blogosphere (God help me I could only make it so far) turned up nadda on the story at the moment.
I have one word for you, Phil.
Chafing!
No matter how much you moisterize…
I have a bigger problem with the flame thrower…
You own a flame thrower? Those seem like a good candidate for shall-issue laws.
Heh!
Only if you pry it from my blistered, soot stained fingers…
Um … the flamethrower, that it.
Stupid cut and paste skills…
Well, he is a Texan. They probably don’t even need a permit.
You mean…is it possible…
he was a Mary Kay Commando?
For a flamethrower? Hell, no! I just tell ‘em its a specialty barbecue rig.
Then the officials all want to come to my house and eat…
ha ha! pigs!
Hey! Wait a minute. Aren’t we supposed to have all the guns? Proggs aren’t allowed to have guns, because guns can think for themselves.