Catching Wild Pigs

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[Support_the_troops23]

A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and stretching as if his back hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist government.

In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke. 'You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in The last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.

Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America . The government keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc.. While we continually lose our freedoms -- just a little at a time.

[wastedyears]

Only one way...

[Celtic Cross]

Sad but true.

[OneWingedShark]

Your tagline is VERY true; it reminds me of something that happened several months ago.
You see, my state has the following in its Constitution:
Art II, Sec 6 [Right to bear arms.]
No law shall abridge the right of the citizen
to keep and bear arms for security and
defense, for lawful hunting and recreational
use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing
herein shall be held to permit the carrying
of concealed weapons. No municipality
or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident
of the right to keep and bear arms.

So, when I went to vote in November I also went while openly carrying; now my voting place just happens to be a elementary school and my state happens to have the following State Statute:
NMSA 30-7-2.1. Unlawful carrying of a deadly weapon on school premises.
A. Unlawful carrying of a deadly weapon on school premises consists of carrying a deadly weapon on school premises except by:
(1) a peace officer;
(2) school security personnel;
(3) a student, instructor or other school-authorized personnel engaged in army, navy, marine corps or air force reserve officer training corps programs or state-authorized hunter safety training instruction;
(4) a person conducting or participating in a school-approved program, class or other activity involving the carrying of a deadly weapon; or
(5) a person older than nineteen years of age on school premises in a private automobile or other private means of conveyance, for lawful protection of the person’s or another’s person or property.

B. As used in this section, “school premises” means:
(1) the buildings and grounds, including playgrounds, playing fields and parking areas and any school bus of any public elementary, secondary, junior high or high school in or on which school or school-related activities are being operated under the supervision of a local school board; or
(2) any other public buildings or grounds, including playing fields and parking areas that are not public school property, in or on which public school-related and sanctioned activities are being performed.

C. Whoever commits unlawful carrying of a deadly weapon on school premises is guilty of a fourth degree felony.

I know and understand that the State Constitution is of a higher authority than the state statute; if a state statute is contrary to the State Constitution then it must needs be null and void. I was not really confronted about it however as when it was mentioned I cited the above portion of the State Constitution. A while later, at a Thanksgiving dinner a friend of the family pulled me aside and said that I had caused some grief for the poll-workers, that it was stupid, and so forth. When I defended my actions saying that they were Constitutional he replied that “following the Constitution is the quickest way to get thrown in prison” and that while I DO have the right to be armed such laws as the cited state statute are needed, even if they are Constitutionally illegitimate, for the sake of safety. Pissed me off, it did.

[Last Dakotan]

I was hoping the story ended with some pork recipes..

[Cisco Nix]

Good story for some leftists I know.

[Captainpaintball]

I was hoping the story ended with some pork recipes..

The rest of the story is as follows:
A mooselimb student, upon hearing the story, notified the campus diversity department, and complained that the story of the wild pigs was offensive to him. The exchange student's visa was revoked, and he was forced to return to his native country, where he was shot again, fatally, in what was described as an "isolated incident" .