Rattlesnake Logic

Subject: Fw: Rattlesnake Logic
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 19:15:48 -0400

    Rattlesnake Logic    

                    

    After the Boston bombing the news media has spent days and weeks trying to
    determine why these men did what they did.  They  want to know what America
    did to make these brothers so angry with us.  They want to know why these
    men were not arrested before  they did something so terrible. The media is
    in a tizzy about this new era of home grown 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 it 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 being like rattlesnakes, and act accordingly!




      In God We Trust!

      "I love this country, it's the government I'm afraid of"