Out of west Texas….
The news media will
spend days trying to determine why these men did what they did in Boston. They
will want to know what America did to make these brothers so angry with us.
They will want to know why these men were not arrested before they did
something unlawful. The media will be in a tizzy about the new era of home
grown radicals and about how they could live among us and still hate us.
Here in west Texas, I
have rattlesnakes on my place. I have killed a rattlesnake on the front porch.
I have killed a rattlesnake on the back porch. I have killed rattlesnakes in
the barn, in the shop and on the driveway. I kill every rattlesnake I encounter.
I kill rattlesnakes because a rattlesnake will bite me and inflict me with
poison. I don't stop to wonder why a rattlesnake will bite me. It will bite me
because it is a rattlesnake and that is what rattlesnakes do. I don't try to
reason with a rattlesnake…I just kill it. I don't try to get to know the
rattlesnake better so that I can find a way to live with the rattlesnakes and
convince them not to bite me…I just kill them. I don't quiz a rattlesnake to
see it I can find out where the other snakes are because (a) it won't tell me
(b) I already know that they live on my place…I just kill the rattlesnake and
move on to the next one. I don't look for ways that I might be able to change
the rattlesnake to a non poison rat snake. I just kill it. Oh, and on occasion
I kill a rat snake, because I thought it was a rattlesnake at the time. Also, I
know that for every rattlesnake that I kill, two more lurk out there. In my
lifetime I will never be able to rid my place of rattlesnakes. Do I fear them? No! Do I respect what they
can do to me? Yes! And because of that
respect I give them their fair justice….I kill them.
Maybe as a country we
should give more credit to the jihadist just being a rattlesnake
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