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Armed bloggers

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Armed bloggers
: A Michigan man having a zoning dispute over the trailers he put on his property has started a blog to tell his side, capture the press he’s getting (he used audblog to broadcast a radio interview), and mobilize his supporters (he quotes another blogger who advises citizens to take tape recorders and digital cameras to the next town meeting so it can be posted online; he also links to my email chat with Jay Rosen and the prediction that bloggers will cover town meetings newspapers can’t afford to cover).

All that’s quite cool: power to the people and all that.

Just one more thing: This blogger has also recruited help from the Michigan Militia (whose site says that an “armed standoff” has been averted). Armed bloggers. Well, there are already lots of those. But they don’t wear camoflauge.

4 responses to “Armed bloggers”

  1. Anil Avatar
    Anil

    It’s sort of off-topic, but these crazy militia men really get my goat. If they’re so interested in respsecting individual property rights against the federal government, why don’t they give their land back to the native people from whom it was stolen?

  2. Stryker Avatar
    Stryker

    “Well, there are already lots of those. But they don’t wear camoflauge.”
    I do :) Of course, I’m actually in the military, instead of wheezing about the woods with my copious beer gut hanging over my pants and playing soldier during those interminable months in between dear season.

  3. David R. Block Avatar
    David R. Block

    Don’t forget Kim DuToit.

  4. Franklin Jennings Avatar
    Franklin Jennings

    Well, Anil, three thoughts leap immediately to mind.
    1) I seriously doubt any of today’s militia men took land from anyone. They most likely purchased it from a legal owner who purchased it from a legal owner who… going back at least a couple of hundred years.
    2) Should they be overtaken by charity and wish to do as you suggest, who would they return it to? The (mostly) white guys who still hang on to the name of the tribe who lived in the area when it was settled by whites? What about the tribes who likely lived there before that tribe displaced them? I cannot speak for Michigan, but here in the Mountains of the Southeast, we could cede land back to the Cherokee, but then, would they have the same obligaqtion to return it to the 30 or so tribes they stole it from? If they are, too bad, those tribes don’t exist anymore,t hanks to the Cherokee. Maybe genocide is the solution?
    3) What native peoples? No people are native to the Americas. We all came here from other continents and we all got to those other continents from Africa. Maybe we should just hand the entire globe over to Robert Mugabe?
    Such sad simplemindedness, simpering and sighing to show she sympathises.