A quick exchange on a university’s faculty discussion board has led experts in Appalachian studies to consider again whether bias in academe (and society) is too accepted when it is about the people of the region they study.

On the faculty discussion board, a staff member posted a complaint about a student walking around barefoot in a building. A response is what set off the larger discussion:

One professor wrote: “My approach would be to assure this student that going barefoot is not against the rules because the assumption is that by the time they reach college, students are expected to understand why wearing shoes is expected on campus. If s/he disrespects his or her peers and the college community enough to (un)dress like a hillbilly here, I would say, then s/he should be prepared to be dismissed as one, in whatever pursuits s/he favors, in the preference of someone more attuned to proper decorum and respectful behavior.”

FK – Are they sure it wasn’t a post-modern hippie? In which case of course they should be defending its actions as being in tune with Gaia. Or maybe the student was just trying to get ‘grounded‘ as some people do for health purposes.

Standing up to the Bureau of Land Management as feds try and claim thousands of acres of ranchland along the board of the Red River, patriots held an open carry rally in Burkburnett, Texas.

People from southern Texas and Arizona joined Texomans to support the ranchers whose land is in jeopardy by the BLM. Men, women and children exercised their Second Amendment right to bare arms during the rally, reported by Newschannel 6.

FK – Go watch the vid on the 2nd link. Most encouraging thing I’ve seen in a while. Will the Fed Nazis ‘investigate’ these patriots as well?

Glenn Greenwald, who helped Edward Snowden leak sensitive documents about the National Security Agency spying on its citizens, says he’s set to publish his most dramatic piece yet, which will reveal those in the USA who were targeted by the NSA.

“One of the big questions when it comes to domestic spying is, ‘Who have been the NSA’s specific targets?’ Are they political critics and dissidents and activists? Are they genuinely people we’d regard as terrorists? What are the metrics and calculations that go into choosing those targets and what is done with the surveillance that is conducted? Those are the kinds of questions that I want to still answer,” Mr. Greenwald told the UK’s Sunday Times.

FK – They consider us all to be livestock. Any livestock that doesn’t stay quietly in the pasture is suspect and possibly meat for the butcher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMCsFfgupmo

FK – Link to Infowars story.

We are in the midst of a moral panic against the very concept of weapons (and people outside of government who wield them).

But one scary thing about moral panics is that hardly anybody recognizes them for what they are until everybody finally snaps out of the hysteria.

The panic against weapons and those who use them has been going on at least since the early 1990s (and probably began in the 1960s). My great fear is that a) it’s getting worse and b) it’s infecting the minds of an entire generation, so that the current crop of children and young adult students will arrive “in the real world” with the assumption — implanted by the current hysteria — that weapons themselves are actually evil.

If you’re six years old and your classmate gets suspended for having an inch-long G.I. Joe gun in his backpack, you’re likely to draw a deep-seated conclusion that guns carry some almost-supernatural power to commit atrocities. If, besides that, you have no exposure to real guns for target shooting, hunting, or other sports, and you’re never taught anything about the realities of gun safety, you’re likely to hold onto that superstition as an adult. Even if you eventually realize that your little classmate was a victim of hysteria, the message that guns are eeeeeeevil remains at some level of your unconscious self.

And now that fear of weapons is spreading to tiny pocketknives, table knives, and the epees of fencing clubs.

FK – And this is happening because so-called ‘libertarians,’ and ‘conservatives’ and other supposed anti-authoritarian liberty lovers fail to get in the proper panic about our greatest enemies, or domestic blood enemies, “Liberal” and ‘progressive'(commie) trash who have been working feverishly for decades to kill the Bill of Rights once and for all.

On his Facebook page Justin Amash (R-Mich.), who has taken up the mantle from the now-retired Congressman Ron Paul as America’s premier defender of civil liberties in Congress, stated that the bill actually codifies into law practices that would legally sanction massive data-mining of Americans without either the judicial warrant, probable cause, or particularity required by the Fourth Amendment:

I was and am proud of the work our group, led by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, did to promote this legislation, as originally drafted. However, the revised bill that makes its way to the House floor this morning doesn’t look much like the Freedom Act. This morning’s bill maintains and codifies a large-scale, unconstitutional domestic spying program.

FK – There are those among us who would bow down to a king if they thought it would make their existences easier or safer…

FK – By the time this was made we had lost the right to secede, gained a strong central bank and progressive income tax, saw the beginning of the welfare state with socialist security and the beginning of gun prohibition with the Sullivan Law, the NFA and numerous ‘gun free zones.’