Friday, January 06, 2012

First Impressions, Ordinary Americans, and Patriots

The other day, Radley Balko posted this photo (below) under the heading Charming, noting the glibness of the message contained within this photo.  Unfortunately, many individuals will look at this photo admiringly and think to themselves how safe they are with the police all armed up as if they are going to war, even though the photo’s message itself states that these police are not going to war but rather to your house.

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This got me to thinking about first impressions and the importance of the message a first impression can have on individuals, and, how the United States government currently pretty much controls the message Americans’ receive in regards to individuals who are gun enthusiasts, survival preppers, or even staunchly conservatively right leaning and liberty minded.

The message the United States government desires Americans’ to swallow in regards to the aforementioned individuals is condensed in this photo, which I first saw at Drudge (below).

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It is not news that the United States government considers many American gun enthusiasts, survival preppers, or staunchly conservative liberty minded individuals as right wing extremists, it’s a message the United States government is almost continually broadcasting, nowadays, and many Americans in viewing the above photo of the Mt. Rainier gunman will falsely believe that the ordinary American gun enthusiast, survival prepper, or staunchly conservative liberty minded individual are as threatening and evil as the Mt. Rainier gunman’s posed photo suggests.

I attempted to locate some photos of ordinary Americans with guns, via a Bing search, because I wanted to compare these photos with portraits of colonial American patriots, who were ordinary Americans, but as you can see, if you click that Bing link, I was rather unsuccessful.

The point I am attempting to make, is, let’s not allow the United States government to control the impression Americans receive about individuals, such as myself, who are either gun enthusiasts, survival preppers, or staunchly conservative and liberty minded.  Look at that photo of myself in the upper right hand corner of my blog.  I am carrying a gun in that photo, though you cannot see it, and I appear rather pleased and non-threatening.  Don’t strike some hard ass pose if you are photographed with your hardware in plain view, stand like an ordinary American on watch for the sake of liberty.  Wear your suit or every day normal attire, as the following graphic posted by Kerodin of an ordinary American colonial patriot suggests.

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Posted by John Venlet on 01/06 at 03:01 PM
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