Is this what our veterans fought and bled and died to preserve?
The PC Wusses rule the roost and exact danegeld from their subjects in a town ruled by wusses who claim to fear the nonexistant and oppress the masses with their convenient “fear.”
Headline:
Men Cleared Of Charges In Flour Anthrax Scare
[Set aside the fact that those charged were a brother and sister; apparently, The Morning News–an Arkansas paper–cannot discern any differences in the sexes *heh*]
Here’s the background. Since 1938, Hash House Harriers have provided a social context for like-minded folk who like to gather–usually in pubs–for a few sociable beers after a game of hounds and hares. Many HHH’s characterize their clubs as “drinking clubs with a running problem”. *heh* The best description of HHHs is probably the one found at the link above:
“…the world’s most eccentric running club, the Hash House Harriers. Now with 1843 hash groups registered in the world directory located in almost every major city in the world and 178 countries, it is easier than ever for you to find fun, trail, and friendship where you live. The Hash House Harriers is a more social version of Hare and Hounds, where you join the pack of hounds (runners) to chase down the trail set by the hare or hares (other runners), then gather together for a bit of social activity known as the On In or Down Down with refreshment, humor, song and sometimes a feast.”
So, what does this have to do with the idiot tyrants of New haven Connecticut? Well, it seems that in August, a group of HHHs had a hounds and hare event on in New Haven and a brother and sister team were tasked as the “hares”. So, off they went laying a trail for the “hounds” to follow. Now, naturally, the “hounds” couldn’t follow by scent like real hounds would, so the “hares” laid the trail with a strange white substance that has been used for something like 70 years in these games: flour.
The New Haven Nutcakes went cukoo, and when Daniel Salchow–the brother–heard about all the fuss and went by to identify the substance, he (and his sister, visiting from Germany) were arrested and charged with “first-degree breach of peace”–a felony.
After a couple of months of legal wrangling (during which Dorothee Salchow “fled” for the relative sanity of Hamburg, Germany *heh*) the charges were dropped. When Daniel Salchow paid $4,000 extortion money to the New Haven People’s Board of Anarcho-Tyranny.
Funny thing: last month, Fayetteville, AR–not usually a bedrock of sanity itself–had a lil kerfuffle when another HHH group laid a flour trail (as they have done for decades) that included lil piles of flour, one of which was deposited in front of the Federal Building in downtown Fayetteville.
No arrests. No big tizzy. The flour was identified as flour and life went on.
But in the People’s Republic of New Haven, the Board of Anarcho-Tyranny had another agenda…
BTW–in an appropriate rabbit trail–something like 40 years ago, I wrote a piece for whistler choir and symphonic band in honor of the Hash House Harriers. Sad to see an American town now so scared of shadows that tyrannical rule is simply accepted at face value. All a part of the lessons taught by Homeland (In)Security, TSA goons, et al. Maybe a revival of the Hounds and Hares March performed by a local high school band–at every public function of City government for a year, perhaps?–would do New Haven’s tyrants some good…
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