Recent events up near Burns, Oregon, have brought, once again, the
Denigrators to the forefront.
These are people who will begin digging,
misrepresenting, and outright lying, about some of the key players in
any event. Occasionally, a bit of truth is brought out, though often, it
is intended to associate those who may have bad records with those who
are otherwise; good, honest, men, doing what they believe to be a
necessary course of action.
About that necessary course of action. Many people have been
critical, not of the players, but of the activity of taking over federal
buildings. They tend to judge those actions by their own standards, and
expect others to abide by their moral compass.
However, if they are not players in a particular incident, what is
their motive to object to the actions of others? Are they conditioned as
“arm chair quarterbacks”, drinking beer and deciding why the coach’s
call was a bad one? Well, there is nothing wrong with that, even if it
is taken to the Internet.
Surely, those who support the same team are
most likely to agree, or, then, they might have a different opinion. The
bottom line, however, is whether their team won, or lost.
The professed patriot, however, has different opposition, and it
never changes, though the playing field might. The opposition is the
government, and the playing field, in the current instance, is the
Malheur Refuge, about thirty miles south of Burns, Oregon.
