And apparently this business owner, Bill Looman, is a member of the North Georgia Militia and Oathkeepers.
Why, oh why, did I *not* see that coming....
Another group of overweight rednecks running around the woods -- plenty of marshmallow moonpies and cans of vienna sausages in their backpacks -- just wannabe soldiers pretending to defend democracy.
* If this movement actually cared about limited federal government and the Constitution, then where the hell were the teanutters. Oathkeepers, etc. back when the Bush administration was suspending habeas corpus and working with the telecom companies to conduct warrantless surveillance on US citizens?
* If this movement was about fiscal responsibility, then where was the teabagger movement back when Bush and the GOP-controlled Congress took a budget surplus, turned it into a deficit, and paid for two Mideast wars by selling Treasury bills to China? That one act alone eroded the buying power of the US dollar by 43% - almost half. Where was the grassroots rage then?
* And another thing: Bush paid for these wars this by moving the costs of the war "off the books", to keep it from being fully reviewed by Congress or the public. What would the original Founding Fathers think of an imperial president who operates above the review of Congress or the people? Where were the teanutters marching on the White House over this? Where were the veiled threats from Oathkeepers then?
* Where was this movement when George Bush - that's right, BUSH - bailed out the Wall Street investment banks, the insurance companies (AIG), worked deals with Goldman Sachs, and bailed out the auto companies? How come we didnt' see tea parties back then, hmmm?
* Where was this movement when Dick Cheney tried to evade accountability by declaring that the office of Vice President didnt' fall in to Executive, Legislative OR Judicial branch? What would the Founders think of that, I wonder.
Just a bunch of far right wingers filled with unfocused rage and conspiracy theories. They were perfectly happy to sit on their fat behinds while Bush and the GOP shredded the Constitution and spent like drunken sailors. No tea parties then - no marches on Washington - nothing. That's because they agreed with expanded government and deficit spending,
as long as Republicans were doing it.
In reality, the people in this movement are a bunch of hypocrites who only got motivated when a black man won the White House. Everything else is just window dressing to make naked hypocrisy and racism sound less obscene.