April 19, 2013 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
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Dear Nate,
1I was stationed in New England many years ago and learned something about Boston liberals. A friend of mine’s dad was a bigtime liberal Boston cop. He got shot in the mouth, abdomen, and knee by a bank robber. Then he caught the guy and beat the hell out of him.
Any Boston liberal considers you pudding.
He’s now apologizing for the “timing” of his tweet :
http://www.facebook.com/NateBell4Arkansas/posts/10151563834772859
But not for being a bowl of creme de merde.
2Wasn’t the suspect completely surrounded by armed Boston Police, FBI, etc? Trained Police & FBI? And he escaped? But one guy with a gun in his house is gonna do what dozens (hundreds?) of armed law enforcement couldn’t? I think Arkansas Rep Nate Bell is imagining a scene from his movie script for “One Guy in Boston,” starring Bruce Willis.
3The cursor is blinking in this little comment box, and I just damned well don’t know what to say. Yes, a P.O.S.!
4These people all so effen stupid. Boston authorities are telling everyone to stay inside – is Nate Bell such a tool that he’ll come out of his home with his beloved guns blazing so that the cops will shoot him (and he would deserve it) or the bomber take him as a hostage?
5Thank you, Bryan Brinkman!
6Up heah in Baw-stuhn, we got steel gonads (go look up “gonads” in the dictionary, Congressman). We laugh at death every day dodging other drivahs on the highway. We don’t need high-calibah binkies to make us feel bettah.
MCPO, yeah, that sounds about right. How many times did the suspect fall down the stairs in lockup?
7My guess is that there were fewer Bostonians cowering from these yahoos than there were Republican Congress varmints cowering fro the NRA……
8Silence is a fools best friend.
9LOL @MCPO Ret … yes, by God, revenge can be so sweet!
@Deb … you got that right!!
10Deb–oh, SNAP!
11Even AR-15s with high capacity magazines are no match for pressure cookers with explosives with ball bearings and hand grenades, you
12fool. This is why we have police, FBI, and SWAT teams. Hope they pay you a visit real soon, Rambo.
This is home turf for me. I live 3 miles from “ground zero” in Watertown. In fact, for 20 years, I lived about a mile from it. Susan’s office is about a half mile from the site, and we passed within 150 feet of it on Wed, when I was giving her a ride to her office. We are close enough that the helicopters have been rattling windows about once an hour.
Here is a little bit about the place where the shootout occurred in the wee hours of this morning. Its a quiet neighborhood of fairly closely packed two family houses, many built in the 1920’s. They were bought by first generation immigrants, mostly Italian, and Armenian, and their children or grandchildren now own and live in them. They rent out the first floor apartments to a varied sort, some of the latest wave of immigrants, but there is also a large contingent of grad students taking advantage of the places 3 miles (on an electric bus line) from Harvard, and 5 miles from MIT. (the undergrads live in cheaper digs, across the river in Allston)
On Mt Auburn St, which is the “main drag”, there are the usual collection of small restaurants, a hardware store, several funeral homes and a bunch of Armenian markets. Its also home to the Mt Auburn Cemetery, the first big “garden” cemetery in the US.
For 15 years, I worked literally across the street from where the MIT police officer was shot. I am at MIT at least once a week (I am one of the instructors for the bell change ringers guild). Sue got her PhD there, her father was class of 1936. My father spent a year there, before getting invited to go visit scenic Korea by the US Army. I used to hang out in their computer lab as a high school student in the early 70’s. (when I started using the net, it could have a maximum of 256 hosts, and it was not in danger of hitting that limit for a few years).
I will be there on Monday night, ringing bells with the students, to celebrate the lives of all those affected by these events. The performance will take us around 45 minutes nonstop. http://nagcr.org will explain.
The only question will we be in the usual practice room, or out in the main lobby where the community can wander by. (this is not the sort of things that one does for an audience – its something people are supposed to hear in passing) Others in the guild will be ringing the bells in the tower of Old North church this Sunday. (as in “one if by land”, and these bells are the same set that Revere also rang) If my hands allowed, I would be one of them.
I do not own firearms, and I don’t expect that to change. Nor will I be changing the places that I am willing to go.
The closest I come to a firearm is the “powder actuated” tool that I use to set nails in concrete and steel. I do build “mechanical artillery”. They hurl vegetables.
13He doesn’t know liberals and he doesn’t know the people of Boston.
14Real men and women solve their problems peaceably.
When they can’t, they call the police.
I wonder how many innocent people are killed by guns this idiot and his NRA friends allow to be sold?
15I wonder how many police would be shot when knocking at the door of someone who didn’t believe it was law enforcement and opened fire. But hey, the police are just another branch of the government that’s the cause of all our problems. Actually, if this doofus has a hall mirror, he’s probably a greater danger to himself than anyone else.
16As I said, I am 2 miles away from the edge of the current search zone. I am sitting in the den typing this. On the TV is the NPR simulcast of Gotterdamurung.
If members of the 101’st chairborne were out their with their toys trying to “assist” the pro’s, I would be cowering in the basement. .223’s carry, and a layer of siding and a plaster wall won’t do a whole lot to slow them down. Given how often those idiots manage to hit themselves, their spouses, their neighbors houses and their children asleep in other rooms, the only projectile weapon I would trust them with says NERF on the side.
17Bostonians know when to run into danger (the marathon) and when not to. It’s called guts and brains.
18Bostonians are smart enough to realize that a civillian firing any weapon in an area of closely packed homes swarming with 9000 sleep-deprived, trigger-happy, loosely coordinated police officers from more than 20 jurisdictions as explosives litter the ground is a Very Bad Idea.
Example — the guy walking around at night in Watertown who was videoed hugging the ground very closely as 20 laser-dots played over his body, as a burly cop barked “move a hair and we’ll shoot.” He didn’t try to explain that he wasn’t the guy, protest that the cops didn’t have a warrant, or pull out a gun.
Yeah, in a gunfight between a homeowner and a perp, the 9000 cops aren’t going to bother figuring out who is who.
190 sounds like the correct number to me. Did ol’ Nate in Arkansas think they were coming after him next?
20I wonder how many Bostonians have spent the last several days thanking God that these guys were armed with Rube Goldberg bombs rather than AR-15s with high-capacity magazines.
21Jeff Del Pappa, thank you for taking the time to sharing your insight, into the neighborhood. I hope you, Susan and everyone involved stays safe. The bell ringing sounds quite appealing, if you will pardon the pun.
22Holy ***t I’ve been on “lockdown” in Cambridge all ****ingday–I didn’t need or want a weapon and I certainly wasn’t cowering in fear, for ****’s sake. I made soup and biscuits and took them over to my 96 year old neighbor. My mother’s 80 and she wsn’t cowering in fear. None of us were. Is this what Arkansas thinks people do? Live in fear of some guy home invading them? Maybe they should hire some police to protect them.
23deb,
Thanks for the kind words. Just heard that he is in custody and still breathing. (in fact is in the same hospital as the Transit officer was moved two….)
24@Jeff Del Pappa, I very much appreciate your comments. Thank you, and thankfully they got the guy this evening; I love the way the people there are showing their appreciation for people who were involved in ending the horror.
25If everyone in my neighborhood had an AR-15, I’d move in a flash.
26My brother and his wife live in Brookline (that’s Boston to us Texans). No problem.
27Gidget Commando, I learned to drive in Boston. During 11 years of commuting over two hours a day to Houston, I never saw anything that I’d call traffic. You nailed it. Pedestrians in Boston are divided between the quick and the dead.
@Jeff Del Papa: Let me add my thanks for your insights. I’m grateful this episode has ended the further loss of life and limb in your Commonwealth (May God save it!). I empathized with the folks in Watertown who came outside and applauded the exiting law enforcement officials. Juanita has a large and diverse audience from all parts of the country (and globe?) who are entertained and informed by her exposure of local and national malfeasance.
I’m especially grateful that our President also paid notice to the horrific events in West, Texas, so that we won’t forget what happened there in this awful week. He even managed not to smirk when he said that he had talked with Gov. Goodhair–who deserves a lot more than smirks from the rest of us in this great land.
28Thank You, Arkansas…just when we think we’ve got the most idiotic politicians per capita in the US, along comes our neighbor to the northeast. And Ozark stupid really, really burns.
29@Kellybee: I’m gonna have to remember “Ozark stupid”!
30I’ve never been more proud of my country than this evening watching Bostonians & their suburban neighbors standing beside the streets applauding the police, the firefighters, the national guard, the medics and all who had been out there for 24 hours+ serving the community.
31I think that Boston liberals, along with Boston conservatives, were wishing that an armed and dangerous suspect would stay away from their families and their houses.
Why would anyone be wishing to be in a fire-fight?
32Nate Bell would not last a minute in Boston. Sorry Momma, but, Eff You Nate Bell. You’re messing with my people, who make you look like a pissant. Thank you Jeff. I grew up blocks from the Watertown/Waltham line and mom (85) and bro are still there. My mom grew up in Allston, Dad in Brighton. Mom’s biggest gripe today was that she was gonna miss Days of Our Lives AGAIN! That and she wishes she still had a dog. Even though I’m now in the PNW, my family and many friends are there, including one daughter living on the Red Line near Davis Sq…Nate Bell can kiss ALL our asses. Boston Strong.
33Nate Bell would rather all Assault Weapon owners and Glock owners get their big clips and be able to go into the street to take out the bombers. Who needs police when you have an AR15, big clips and a small brain.
I bet the bombers would still be loose with Bell and his WELL REGULATED MILITIA BEER DRINKING BUDDIES in charge of finding the criminals amongst us.
34Ding Dong Bell is probably one of those idiots who wants to take back HIS country by taking up firearms against the goverment. He might want to think twice about that little stupid idea and remember the response in Boston for TWO men. Bell wouldn’t last two seconds, if that long.
35How do we know this genius was not a Texan? He apologized–yes, I know it was a half-apology, more a regret that he said a brilliant thing at the wrong time, I know all that. But our home grown idiots would NEVER catch themselves in even a half regret for saying something stupid—no, once that statement’s out there, by God, our Texas public officials dig in their heels and by God, defend to the death their right to say the most ignorant thing imaginable. I wrote a note to a good friend in Little Rock yesterday to let them know we feel their pain….
36Can we ship him to south Boston? I think the Southies might have an opinion they’d be happy to share.
Hippie in the Hollar
37Kellybee- I too am grateful for the Ozark stupid line- I know some poster children for ‘Ozark stupid’!
38How brave was the “Boston liberal” who, without a gun, went to see what was in his boat and discovered the terrorist…NO GUN and he found the guy! THAT IS REAL Bravery!
39We’re the cops in Boston who captured this guy, union?
40From the Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/ae/radio/blog/2013/04/why_are_so_many_bostonians_telling_arkansas_state_senator_nate_bell_hes_an_idiot.html
One of my personal favorite Tweets is from the person who said they slept like a baby, knowing that an idiot like Nate Bell didn’t represent them in any capacity at all.
41Nate Bell is my neighbor SO!———-Nate dont pay any attention to liberals most just got out of the sewer! But there is afew that didnt! DO NOTworry about them. As for the ones in Arkansas–I will take care of them! About all most of them can do is try to talk you to death!
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