Getting ready for work this morning, I caught the last 10 minutes or so of an Andy Griffith episode. I hadn’t realized what kind of leftist hellscape Mayberry was. The part of the show I caught had to do with two would-be job creators (one of whom, if I’m not mistaken, was Staff Sgt. Charlie Hacker who would go on to be Sam the Butcher), who wanted to sell their goods by the side of the road.
Andy and Barney wanted to impose statist red tape on these honest farmers for the crime of not having their papers in order. Though they had been run off once, undaunted, these entrepreneurs set up shop again. Barney and Andy determine that they will continue their oppression. During the discussion, Barney asks Andy if he is going to take a gun. Refusing to admit that guns equal freedom, Andy says that, no he isn’t going to take his gun. Instead, he is going to rely on his badge, which represents the law of the collective and that should be enough.
No guns.
Government = The People.
Hostility toward commerce and imposition of statist red tape.
Andy Taylor was clearly no Sheriff Mack.
LIKE
LOL. What side of the bed did you get up on this morning??? ;)
The right (south) side!
Congratulations, Doug! You have just passed the subtle assessment technique sponsored by the Conspiracy Awareness of America, which qualifies you to run for the Missouri legislature. Yesterday, in one fell swoop, they passed legislation to ban Sharia, banned all Federal gun laws from being carried out, declared that teachers who refused to bring a gun to school when told to do so would be fired, and protected citizens from the evils of Agenda 21. Now there is one august group!
I like the episode where the young couple left their baby on the porch of a house in Mayberry, then regretting it came back to claim the baby. The punishment? Sheriff Andy Taylor gave them a stern talking to and let them off when they promised not to do it again. Now that is small town justice!
I recall that the father and husband was a young Jack Nicholson.
One of the entreprenuers was indeed Allan Melvin, later known the Brady Bunch’s Alice’s meat man. I recall that the local merchants did not want the lower-cost competition from the farmers on the highway.
Oh the dead weight loss. But that grocer Mr. Foley was such a nice guy.
Odd, but I would bet that those who decry the leftist hell hole that Obama has created and will continue to rule past 2016 by fraud and artifice (with my help and large donations) love good ole Andy, Barney, Goober and even that that bitchy Aunt Bea. And wistfully cry over their cheap coffee about those good old days when blacks weren’t on television and women worked only as nurses, school teachers and coffee pourers.
Still, I like Flora’s rack and that Charlene Darling was a babe.
“Government = The People”
You’re so naive. Government=whatever the people who can buy the government want it to be. If the local grocery stores pay for a law to run off competition from farm stands, that’s the government.
If the farm lobby buys a law to keep people from filming farms, that’s the government.
You know full well there is no collective, and you like it that way, because you far more trust the tastes of the oligarchy than those of the fickle and uneducated mob.
As David and others have said, “your view of society is very troubling”. It’s generally understood that Cynicism is Democracy’s enemy. How is it that “Freedom” is so comfortable with it? Could it be that “Freedom” is more comfortable as a prisoner?
Stuart, a thinking man is troubled by your crippling ignorance and your substitution of groupthink for independent thought.
Be right, not welcome.
That brings up an interesting point, “freedom.” I have noticed that you do not post on weekends. Are you pulling weekend jail time somewhere with no access to the Internet. Just curious.
“Freedom”, that’s just nonsense. Sorry. I don’t do nonsense.
You do a good Stuart, however. Keep up the Stuart.
I am afraid Freedom has jumped the shark and was caught in the jaws.