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Socialists ignorant view of America
Living with a gun enthusiast from the American heartland
By Timo E. Peltonen
A tall, stout man about 20 years of age appears in the doorway of the study of the student dorm. He is wearing a cowboy hat, a long coat of oilcloth familiar from a cigarette advertisement, and a pair of cowboy boots. The outfit is not unusual in winter Montana - not even at the University of Montana.
In his arms the man carried a 30-inch television. He did not seem very self-confident when he walked in, but he tried to put on an air of nonchalance. I cannot recall if he introduced himself right away, but it is hard to forget that Mark Wicks eventually proved to be a genuine American gun nut.
What is a man like that made of? And why should we be interested in a person like Mark Wicks?
Mark is an American who takes a great interest in guns - the tools of violence. The attitudes that individual Americans have toward violence are what forms the collective US attitude toward violence. This relationship has a downright astoundingly broad impact on the world in general.
First of all, the foreign policy of the world's only superpower springs forth from that relationship with violence, and that policy reverberates in every corner of the earth.
History has shown that Americans are ready to support the violent efforts of those whose actions they have considered justified from the point of view of the "free world".
They have armed Nicaragua's Contra guerrillas in the fight against the Sandinistas, the Afghan Taleban against the Soviets, and the tyranny of Saddam Hussein against Iran's Islamist regime...
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These kinds of fools are a plague on freedom IMO.
By Timo E. Peltonen
A tall, stout man about 20 years of age appears in the doorway of the study of the student dorm. He is wearing a cowboy hat, a long coat of oilcloth familiar from a cigarette advertisement, and a pair of cowboy boots. The outfit is not unusual in winter Montana - not even at the University of Montana.
In his arms the man carried a 30-inch television. He did not seem very self-confident when he walked in, but he tried to put on an air of nonchalance. I cannot recall if he introduced himself right away, but it is hard to forget that Mark Wicks eventually proved to be a genuine American gun nut.
What is a man like that made of? And why should we be interested in a person like Mark Wicks?
Mark is an American who takes a great interest in guns - the tools of violence. The attitudes that individual Americans have toward violence are what forms the collective US attitude toward violence. This relationship has a downright astoundingly broad impact on the world in general.
First of all, the foreign policy of the world's only superpower springs forth from that relationship with violence, and that policy reverberates in every corner of the earth.
History has shown that Americans are ready to support the violent efforts of those whose actions they have considered justified from the point of view of the "free world".
They have armed Nicaragua's Contra guerrillas in the fight against the Sandinistas, the Afghan Taleban against the Soviets, and the tyranny of Saddam Hussein against Iran's Islamist regime...
web page
These kinds of fools are a plague on freedom IMO.
heh, everybody in Montana has guns. 
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