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Rattlesnake Logic
With
ISIS and all the radical Islamic issues of late, the news media has
spent weeks and months trying to determine why these people do what
they do. They want to know what America did to make these people so
angry with us. The media is in a tizzy about this new era of
homegrown radicals, and about why they could live among us and still
hate us.
A
friend of mine from Texas explained it all to me: Here in west
Texas, I have rattlesnakes on my place, living among us. I have
killed a rattlesnake on the front porch. I have killed a rattlesnake
on the back porch. I have killed rattlesnakes in the barn, in the
shop and on the driveway. In fact, I kill every rattlesnake I
encounter.
I kill
rattlesnakes because I know a rattlesnake will bite me and inject me
with poison. I don t stop to wonder why a rattlesnake will bite me;
I know it will bite me because it's a rattlesnake and that's what
rattlesnakes do. I don’t try to reason with a rattlesnake - I just
kill it.
I don
t try to get to know the rattlesnake better so I can find a way to
live with the rattlesnakes and convince them not to bite me. I just
kill them. I don’t quiz a rattlesnake to see if I can find out where
the other snakes are, because (a) it won t tell me, and (b) I
already know they live on my place. So, I just kill the rattlesnake
and move on to the next one.
I
don’t look for ways I might be able to change the rattlesnake to a
non-poisonous rat snake...I just kill it. Oh, and on occasion, I
accidentally kill a rat snake because I thought it was a rattlesnake
at the time. Also, I know, for every rattlesnake I kill, two more
are lurking out there in the brush. In my lifetime I will never be
able to rid my place of rattlesnakes. Do I fear them? No!
Do I
respect what they can do to me? Yes! And because of that respect, I
give them the fair justice they deserve.... I kill them...
Maybe
as a country we should start giving more thought to the fact that
these jihadists are just like rattlesnakes and act accordingly!
I love
this country; it's the government I'm afraid of!
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