March 29, 2010 7:48 AM

Unfortunately, arrogance and self-righteousness only means you're a three-percenter

(thanks to Erin O’Brien, among others, for pointing me to this)

THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

(apologies to Keith Olbermann)

Mike Vanderboegh

So, if you wish to send a message that Pelosi and her party cannot fail to hear, break their windows.

Break them NOW.

Break them and run to break again. Break them under cover of night. Break them in broad daylight. Break them and await arrest in willful, principled civil disobedience. Break them with rocks. Break them with slingshots. Break them with baseball bats.

But BREAK THEM.

The time has come to take your life, your liberty and that of your children and grandchildren into your own two hands and ACT.

It is, after all, more humane than shooting them in self defense.

I will strongly and passionately defend any American’s right to express themselves. That’s what free speech means. Unfortunately, the right to express oneself too often means that one also has the inalienable right to expose oneself as a brain dead, self-righteous jackass with an overdeveloped sense of self-importance. It’s one thing to disagree with the government, a piece of legislation, the majority party, or all /some of the above. Again, this is part and parcel of living in a free society. However, when you cross the Rubicon and begin advocating what seems to be the textbook definition of domestic terrorism, you’ve gone to a place that, taken to an extreme, imperils the Republic. In doing so, you place yourself on a par with common, garden-variety terrorists and demonstrate yourself unworthy of being taken seriously.

Simply put, Mike Vanderboegh’s a twit, barely worthy of recognition, and a lifetime member of the Brotherhood of the Tiny Penis. In a perfect world, he’d be laughed off the Internet as an irrelevant blowhard. Inciting violence, in this day and age, is nothing to ignore. As we’ve already seen, there are no shortage of people willing to take up Vanderboegh’s call and turn his words into action. Vanderboegh believes that the health care reform legislation could lead to civil war…but what he fails to admit is that he’s the one calling for civil war. While I’m not a constitutional law scholar, I’m fairly certain than inciting violence is not protected free speech.

Almost as bad as Vanderboegh’s willingness to foment civil war is his hypocrisy. He may hate the government, but he lives in part off montly disability payments from…you guessed it…the federal government. Yet another Tea Party stalwart who hates the government and wants it out of our lives…but udamnbetcha who’d be crying the loudest if his disability payments disappeared, eh? Calling Vanderboegh a hypocrite would be charitable, but let’s just leave it at that for now, shall we? The man’s an idiot who’s clearly lost sight of the fact that in America, “majority rules” is still the rule.

And who advised Vanderboegh that his rights and beliefs trump mine or those of anyone else? He has the same right as any American to cast his vote and speak his mind. What he most certainly does NOT have is the right to force his (decidedly minority) agenda upon good, decent, law-abiding Americans. In advocating for violence directed at the federal government, he’s elevating his narrow agenda over the beliefs of other Americans who think differently.

“The federal government should not have the ability to command us to buy something that it decides we should buy,” Vanderboegh said. The government, he added, has “absolutely no idea the number of alienated who feel that their backs are to the wall are out here … who are not only willing to resist this law to the very end of their lives, but are armed and are capable of making such resistance possible and perhaps even initiating a civil war.”

Uh, hold up there, Cowboy. Do you drive a car? I realize that Alabama may be a bit backward in some respects, but I’m guessing that Alabama law requires drivers to have proof of liability insurance. This argument, in short, is crap. Look, I hate paying for insurance every month, but sometimes the greater good really DOES trump individual interest. If you have no health insurance, I’m on the hook every time you go to an emergency room for elective, or any other, care. By refusing to purchase insurance, you’re simply shifting the responsibility for paying onto taxpayers. I’ll make you a deal, though; if you promise never to see a doctor or go to an emergency room for ANY reason, I’ll sign on to your argument. Then again, you probably think health care grows on trees.

I could spend a lot of time and psychic energy dissecting Vanderboegh’s lunacy, but I’m not about to give anything resembling credibility to his “argument”. What does upset me is that someone like him can incite what amounts to violent insurrection, which is most definitely NOT protected speech, and no one in law enforcement seems to feel the need to hold him accountable.Put a target on Democrats, and no one says “Boo!” Is it going to take someone getting killed before we wake up to the need to put domestic terrorists like Vanderboegh behind bars?

I frankly don’t care what an impotent, irrelevant blowhard has to say…except when that blowhard is calling for violent insurrection. This needs to stop, and it needs to stop now before someone is hurt or killed. Unless y’all have forgotten, Timothy McVeigh, Scott Roeder, and Eric Rudolph were the ideological kin of people like Vanderboegh. Must we risk another Oklahoma City before law enforcement steps in and protects us from the terrorists in our midst? I would certainly hope not, but sometimes I wonder if we’ve learned anything at all.

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