This just knocks the whole narrative in to a cocked hat:
Most of the indicted militia members accused of being anti-government extremists have active voting records, a check with area voter registration offices showed yesterday.
One is a registered Democrat, and the party affiliations of the rest could not be determined.
Jacob J. Ward, 33, of Huron, Ohio, voted as a Democrat in the 2004 and 2008 primary elections. He also voted in 10 other elections since 2000. Party affiliation in Ohio is determined by which party’s ballot they requested in the most recent primary election.
Think about it: would a conservative ever think of shooting the cops? We’re the guys with all the “back the badge” bumper stickers. Stands to reason that if there’s someone out there targeting the police, it is highly unlikely to be one of us.
This will be inconvenient for liberals who are eager to conflate this militia-kook group with the TEA Party and larger conservative movement. In their narrative, we conservatives simmer on the edge of violence – our hatred of government stoked by having a black man in charge and we’re just an ace away from exploding in a violent rage.
The reality is, of course, that we don’t hate the government – we hate what some people in the government are doing and we want them to stop. We want to restore our government to its proper powers and functions. Think of it like this – a great number of us once upon a time swore an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That is all we’re really doing, now.
Screwballs don’t like the Constitution. It gets in the way. It limits the power of government, but it also prevents kooks from running roughshod over everyone in pursuit of their aims. It prohibits government idiots from taking our guns – but it also prohibits anti-government idiots from using guns to overthrow the government. Its the best of both worlds – when it is rigorously adhered to.
And that is all we want – the Constitution, rigorously adhered to.
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