If not for the grade school mistakes, this article would make a good counterpoint to the mainstream portrayal of these events. Unfortunately, some people, myself included, are likely to stop reading when they encounter misspelled or incorrectly used words and discount any content or argument presented. That sort of thing just reinforces the perception of leftists that we are just a bunch of uneducated hicks. If one wishes to be taken seriously, a careful proof reading of anything one publishes is in order. Computer spellcheck is not good enough.
Attempting to “assuage” authority you have confronted with guns sends a message to authority which opposes the spirit of confrontation. This could be interpreted or misinterpreted ad weakness. And we all know where that can lead.
Unfortunately, the same thing can be said for the MSM news. Far too often when I read an article about “Occupy something”, Black Lives Matter and other “reporting” it is almost impossible to understand without a street slang translator.
The underlying conflict between the Bureaucratic Fed Gov Regulators of “public lands” in the West and the citizens is a real problem.
I lived just a few miles from the epicenter of the original Sagebrush Rebellion. Was interesting how that played out. Many of the Locals forced the Fed Regulators to live by the local government Laws. Something they did not think they were subject to. That was long ago.
The spelling police. Yikes! What have we come to? Unarmed, but full of grammatical & spelling tutorials as the enemy surrounds the prissy dunce.
Perhaps you could instruct on the proper fold for your paper tutorials, in case you ever need to beat about the head and shoulders a member or two of ISIS.
LOL!!
While I agree on the main points with what you say, I would never stop reading an article because of errors. We have had far too many great Americans who couldn’t spell their way out of a paper bag. General George S. Patton, for instance,was dyslexic and I am sure most of his orders and notes written by him were far from perfect. That did not have anything to do with his brilliance, or the effectiveness of his messages. Daniel Boon was another,and he served in congress. I am not fond of elitist attitudes so prevalent today.
Wow. You would have ridiculed the tremendous intellect of a Davy Crockett and his letters/writing and biography, which are riddled with misspellings and grammatical errors, although containing so much wisdom about Life and Freedom.
I think you have to go back to the “Content” theme of MLK, Jr.—not the superficial “look” of something. I do agree that “marketing of ideas” has taken a sleek/seductive, superficial turn, in our vulgar, effete, tyrannical culture, where”perceptions” eject Reason and Truth to emote “feelings” only). (But for a FReeper??? Really???)
True education and wisdom come from living off the land and being self-directed not controlled 24/7 by an irrational, artificial system of indoctrination. Living and working within the natural environment within the natural family supplies wisdom and learning sufficient for real life human-interaction skills and self-reliance that modern books can warp.
Yes. “Education” (self-directed) on top of rugged individualism like Lincoln’s, can refine a mind-—but without that “unschooled” childhood, there would be NO “mind” to refine.