Pottapaug1938 wrote:Whenever Harv and his ilk refer to themselves as "warriors", I can't help thinking of those old cartoons of a child, with his mother's saucepan on his head for a helmet, charging forth to do battle with a "sword", nailed together out of two wooden slats, in one hand........
Yes, personally, I would feel embarrassed if I were to post -- even pseudonymously -- slogans like "stand tall warriors". Harvester apparently isn't self-aware enough to realize how silly his writing looks.
Many of the expressions of tax protesters (such as "patriot" and "sovereign individual" and "warrior" and "tax honesty") simply do not translate well, as normal people see Harvester and his ilk for what they are: criminals, con artists, scammers, and in large measure mentally disturbed to one degree or another. The use of these terms by tax protesters -- as a way of
describing themselves -- comes off as comical and ridiculous -- rather like the way the participants in the Chinese Boxer Rebellion referred to themselves as the "Righteous Fists of Harmony" or the "Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists", or the "Fists of Righteous Harmony".
EDIT: Come to think of it, the comparison to the Chinese Boxer Rebellion participants is appropriate when thinking of the tax protesters, as members of both groups suffered from delusions. According to Wikipedia:
The Boxers believed that they could, through training, diet, martial arts, and prayer, perform extraordinary feats, such as flight and could become immune to swords and bullets. Further, they popularly claimed that millions of "spirit soldiers," would descend from the heavens and assist them in purifying China from foreign influences....
We see a lot of this kind of nonsense from Harvester. Recall his postings back in March about the "Guardians of the Free Republics" or whatever it was called (these were the people who, Harvester supposedly believed, were going to "take back" the country, or whatever, etc.). Harvester has this tendency to copy and paste any loony goof ball thing he sees on the internet. It's a bit hard to tell, sometimes, whether he really believes what he is writing (or copying and pasting) or, whether he is simply a troll.
"My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line." -- David Mamet
