This Is What Should Matter

I interrupt the normally scheduled flypaper test in order to discuss something that should really matter to Americans.

By now, many of you know that my brother was illegally targeted by the city administrators of Dillon, Montana, leading to his arrest.  I don't use the word "illegally" in any glib manner at all.  What Malesich and Troedsson did was flat out illegal.  I'm researching it on my own right now, but I do know that at least one of my sometimes-readers already has access to the info, and would serve himself, my brother and the community of Montana to email me with it as well.   That way, I will risk or stake my own limited  reputation as to the facts of the case and law.  No one else need risk anything.

Allow me to get a tad personal here.  I had warned my brother against the evils of small town politics.  I knew his license was suspended, and strongly suspected that if anyone were to attack him, that would be the method.  Make no mistake, I warned Moorcat of these concerns.  Sure enough, small-town politics proved true to form.  Petty  little men performing petty little stunts to bolster their petty little egos. And aren't we all just goddamned proud  to call such our 'civic leaders'?   I haven't responded about this incident to my brother, or online, not because I don't care, but because I am just so disgusted at the predictable nature of the worst of humanity.  I knew that my brother would "do the right thing", stand tall before the man, and accept his punishment.  I've seen another brother do the same in the past.  That, in large part, is why I love and respect them both.  At no point do I call this justice, and that makes me physically ill.

There is a grander scale to this, though.  No, I'm not trying to paint a picture of the little hero against the monolithic evil of authority.  That's Moorcat's job, and damned if he doesn't have a pretty good palate to work with, a palate they gave him.  The grander scale is that we should all feel revulsion, and yet we seemingly don't.  This isn't just a matter of small-town politics and political bullying.  It's a larger mindset, one that I have accepted and feel shamed by.  Others should as well.  A local chief executive manipulates his power to obtain information against an opponent, and shares that with a sniveling toady (even Grima Wormtongue was more palatable than the slobbering man-whore Troedsson).  And he justifies his illegal actions as if it were concern for community.  Is that the community you live in?  Is that the community the Constitution told you that you live in?  Is that the community you choose to live in?

No, no and no.  This is the very crap that we went to war with England to get the fuck away from.  This is the very crap that Hollywood makes hero movies about.  That is what this is ... crap.  We all know it.  I'd offer a syllogism to prove it, but not everything can be boiled down to a syllogism, according to another person who won't say crap about this crap.  No, this is precisely the crap that we agreed to prostitute ourselves, Republicant and Democant alike, when we chose the Daddy state after 9/11.  This is precisely the crap we chose when we decided that turning a blind eye to the shrill was a good thing to do.  Ignore the signs, pay no heed to the pained.  We'll all be just fine if we pull the covers abit more over our heads.

Oh no, Wulfgar is overstating again?   Am I?  We're not talking about  national security, or great and weighty matters of state.  This time, people, we're talking about you.  That's right, you.  In Bozeman, I at least have the comfort that my mayor (though he and I have butted heads) understands the dangers of localized assholes using authority with dictatorial power.  He's ag'in it, and I applaud that.  In Missoula, their panties are in a knot over email.  THE HORROR!  And yet right here in this state, there is a city administration that will break the law to send a man to prison for disagreement.  Again, ain't we all real proud?  I'm not overstating jack-shit.

In a more simple,  better, more conservative time, we'd have run Malesich and Troedsson out of the state with the tar boiling and the feathers plucked.   I know, I know,  it's easy to say that wouldn't really have happened, and your probably right if you do.  BUT, what America, what Montana, do you live in? The one that says that it's okay to be the pawns of authority, or the one that tars and feathers them?

The answer is indicative of stature to me.  Matt Singer knows the dangers of petty rule.  Jay Stevens gets the point that authority cannot be given free hand to abuse and subjugate.  And from the so-called Dextra wing in Montana, we have ... crickets.  Make of that what you will; I know what I make of it.  Conservatism isn't about struggling against authority anymore, it's about bowing to it.  I still have my naive fantasies that we, Montanans,  would chase corrupt politicians to the border.  Apparently not.

What happened to my brother is a direct threat to the liberties of all who exist under the corrupt local juntas in this state.  This should be on every blog, and in newspapers that aren't weekly.  While he campaigns, someone should at least ask McGrath about this so he can blow the usual smoke of "I'm looking into it!".  Maybe then, he will.  As dysfunctional as my family is, we will deal with the immediacy of Moorcat's problems.  But you folks have got a problem on your plate as well.  Dick-taters in Montana?  Yeah, that ought to matter.

Comments

[Steve]

Thats it puppy, I have had enough. You are an idiot, admittedly, a very good one. But you are really good at being a self centered crybaby. No matter how many times you say it: IT WASN'T ILLEGAL FOR THE MAYOR TO PASS ON THE INFORMATION. No matter how much you want to put it differently, that is a FACT.
Your caterwauling does nothing to change that FACT. And Moorcat didn't deserve what happened to him, but it did happen as a matter of FACT. And if I am not rising to your call to arms, it's because you are wrong again, ANOTHER FACT.
You don't know me, you don't really know what I know, nor do you understand the law. But I know you. Your over the top outrage over the unfairness that happened to your brother shows that you lack any real understanding of life.
Now, I will admit, that I made a mistake: I read your IDIOTIC POST, and cared enough to look into it. Well, I learned my lesson, and I will never do that again.

[Annoyed-mous]

Wulgar, I can't get to the site about what happened to your brother but just because I am a kind human being I'll say I'm sorry for his troubles.
While reading all the above post there were some phrases that jumped out and spoke to me:
___"Dick-taters in Montana"
___"illegal warrant-less wiretapping, illegal detention facilities and illegal inhumane torture"
____"abuse of power"
____"abused by these pissant power holders"
____"the dangers of uncontrolled power"
____"authority cannot be given free hand to abuse and subjugate"
____"use their power to attack 'enemies'"

These appear to be some of the very same evils that we helped free the Iraq citizens from but which has caused liberals to go balistic. But we don't need to worry, narry a country will come to our aid to rid us of these tryants.

[Butte Native]

Wulfgar-- It sounds to me like your brother Is absolutely correct. He should stand proud against the assholes who think they control underlings. Good job, Moorcat. Good job.

(Comment edited for purely vindictive reasons.)