A Little Heavy On The Fertilizer There, Jim Bob
People from foreign states often ask me, “Do y’all just grow them crazy in Texas or is it the heat?”
We grow ‘um.
We plant them, water them, and fertilize them with Louie Gohmert and Rick Perry fertilizer until they grow up and become … well, crazy like this guy. His name is Wes Riddle, and it is highly likely that he will be the next Head Crazy Cowboy Congressman from Texas.
You kinda know things are getting either drunk, stoned, or weird when you look at the Issues page of his website. (You know the drill, click the little one to see the big one.)
Ole Wes is a conspiracy theorist. He claims that President Obama is giving away some oil-goldmine islands in Alaska to the Russians. The commies. Well, that’s not true but Wes ain’t one to let the facts get in the way of a good story.
He’s endorsed by Ron Paul. Do you want me to keep going?
Well, I’m gonna do it anyway.
He’s a blogger.
In February, Riddle, who asserts that states have the authority to nullify federal laws they consider to be unconstitutional, posted an item on Horse Sense warning that Americans’ freedoms were being snuffed out in the name of well-meaning reforms like child labor laws, and no one was willing to do anything about it. “I JUST WISH THE GOVERNMENT WOULD LEAVE US ALONE,” he wrote, bursting into all-caps. But he feared Americans had grown too complacent. “[I]s another Robert E. Lee or Jeff Davis left anywhere in this unified, chained and tethered house of ours—locked down from the inside out?,” he wondered. “Is there a governor with backbone anywhere in the country to point out and even put an end to…(shall I name it? Are you willing to recognize it?). Tyranny.”
Yeah, right, child labor laws are what’s wrong with this country.
Ole Crazy Wes
And, of course, he recognizes the superiority of the white man. He writes, “”Western civilization has produced the height of all civilizations in certain respects, to include literature.” Yes, and we also invented the best possible literature and thought – bathroom wall limericks. Yea, us!
And slavery ended well, didn’t it?
“Slavery in America was clearly harmful and wrong to the people who lived under it, but it proved to be the unintended transmission belt that brought Africans into the orbit of Western freedom,” he wrote. “Are the descendants of slaves really worse off? Would Jesse Jackson be better off living in Uganda? Would we? (Don’t answer that).”
Best I can figure, he’s no relation to Crazy Debbie Riddle in the Texas State Lege, but it is entirely possible that he could be because apparently the Riddle family tree doesn’t fork.
Thanks to about a dozen people for the heads-up and the question, “Do y’all grow them crazy in Texas?“ Now you know the answer.
Okay, for starters, Uganda ws not a source for the slave trade in America. Most Wesern hemisphere slaves came from Cape Verde. the Gold Coast (Benin, Biafra) and the Congo basin. Eastern Africa slavery – mostly from Mozambique and Madagascar – was the province of Arab slavers for the Asian trade.
But just to be fair, I checked with the Ugandans, and offered them a straight-up trade of Wes Riddle – or any other Rethuglican of their choice – for their 24-years-in-office corrupt President Yoweri Museveni, who recently won a rigged election with 68% of the vote.
They told me something in Swahili suggesting self-propagation that was most definitely NOT “Hakuna matata.”
And they weren’t smiling when they said it.
1“…but it (slavery) proved to be the unintended transmission belt that brought Africans into the orbit of Western freedom”
WHAT!? sure took a damn long time (a century, in fact) for that “transmission belt” to start working.
Just what Texas needs in Congress…another embarassment.
Does anyone know anything about his Democratic opponent in the race, Elaine Henderson? Assuming she’s not a LaRouche wacko I might just have to send her a check.
2This article being the length it was, the picture was “below the fold.” I truly expected an old coot, not a yuppie. I was shocked. Home schooled, you think? It definitely sounds as if it would break him into tiny bits to contemplate that an opposing idea might be right.
“What a maroon.” [No offense to Aggies, of which I am a proud member.]
3He’s not “Crazy Ole Wes”; “Crazy Ole Wes” sounds harmless. He is man running for office who does not believe in our form of government and is actively encouraging people to act against it. There are words for those sorts of people and they aren’t “Crazy Ole”. I’m sorry, Juanita, I LOVE this website and the stories you get out to the masses. Couldn’t have lived through the primaries without you. Sometimes I just snap.
4He is a West Point grad with a “graduate degree from Oxford University”. I have the flyer from my local paper right here. I am talking all I can, but everybody in town knows I cannot vote in the Repblican primary or runoff, so I have to be subtle. This guy is really, really scary.
5Child labor, the Victorian era in England and Wes Riddle – a reactionary mind in low gear.
6I wonder if West Point is aware he’s a grad…or Oxford, for that matter.
7Yeah, I’m fascinated at how much the GTOP fumes about the evils of higher ed yet brags about their compadres’ degrees from Oxford, Yale, Harvard….Get the feeling their diplomas were bought and paid for? ‘Cause I just don’t normally think of those places as hotbeds of conspiracy thinking….
8I went to public school with the guy – yes, PUBLIC SCHOOL: elementary through high school. As far as I know, he had no problem with his public school experience – nor with anything else like public or government subsidized (roads, water, police, fire, etc.) services here in Houston. His WP education was publicly subsidized and I know he taught for a time at a public college. Most of his paychecks have come from similar sources as well. I guess he got his and that’s all he cares about.
9Texas has made Sedition illegal, at least since 1993,
http://law.justia.com/codes/texas/2005/gv/005.00.000557.00.html
“commits, attempts to commit, or conspires with one
or more persons to commit an act intended to overthrow, destroy, or alter the constitutional form of government of this state or of any political subdivision of this state by force or violence;”
So when these Repressives say on their blogs or upon interview in the media that if they don’t get their way they are ready for an armed revolt to get their way, isn’t that de facto Sedition??? Where are the Texas Rangers (not the baseball team) when all this Sedition-ing is going on?
Interestingly a Texas final conviction of Sedition disqualifies one from holding in Texas any “office or a position of profit, trust, or employment with the state or any political subdivision of the state.” The law is silent as to whether or not that is a forever disqualification.
10Riddle’s blog writing isn’t real frequent, and he doesn’t get much traffic either. Four followers and most of the postings have no comments.
Must be lonely at the top.
11I must admit, I did it. I clicked on the Wes Riddle link and the first thing I saw on the “Endorsements” that were in the upper right corner flashing by was “Judge Roy Moore”. Then I clicked on the tab for Endorsements to make sure that was the name I saw and yep it was, listed under “Religious”
As an expat Alabamian, I loathfully must claim this “bag of Hammers”! He was the former Chief Judge of the Alabama Supreme Court who refused to remove the “Ten Commandments” from the Alabama Supreme Court despite a Federal order. He then was forcibly removed by the rest of the Alabama Supreme Court.
At the top of the religious grouping of endorsements was also Flip Benham, howling at the moon lunatic of the marching on the sidewalk anti choice crowd.
Also, Bobby Jenkins, Board Chair of the Austin Chamber of Commerce, Owner of ABC Pest Control. What? Tom DeLay was not available?
Where is General William Boykin?
12It just dawned on me that if Riddle wins and Cruz wins, this poor little district in Central Texas will be represented by the two worst members of the U S Congress. And most of us don’t even know their names.
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