If the United States were covered the way the U.S. media cover foreign cultures
Yet another massacre has occurred in the historically war-torn region of the Southern United States - and so soon after the religious festival of Easter.
Brian McConkey, 27, a Christian fundamentalist militiaman living in the formerly occupied territory of Alabama, gunned down three men from an opposing tribe in the village square near Mobile, the capitol, over a discussion that may have involved the rituals of the local football cult. In this region full of heavily-armed local warlords and radical Christian clerics, gun violence is part of the life of many.
Many of the militiamen here are ethnic Scots-Irish tribesmen, a famously indomitable mountain people who have killed civilized men - and each other - for centuries. It appears that the wars that started on the fields of Bannockburn and Sterling have come to America.
As the sun sets over the former Confederate States of America, one wonders - can peace ever come to this land?
- Jahanzeb Hussain. Via Wretched of the Earth, by way of
alicetheowl. Unlocked.
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Brian McConkey, 27, a Christian fundamentalist militiaman living in the formerly occupied territory of Alabama, gunned down three men from an opposing tribe in the village square near Mobile, the capitol, over a discussion that may have involved the rituals of the local football cult. In this region full of heavily-armed local warlords and radical Christian clerics, gun violence is part of the life of many.
Many of the militiamen here are ethnic Scots-Irish tribesmen, a famously indomitable mountain people who have killed civilized men - and each other - for centuries. It appears that the wars that started on the fields of Bannockburn and Sterling have come to America.
As the sun sets over the former Confederate States of America, one wonders - can peace ever come to this land?
- Jahanzeb Hussain. Via Wretched of the Earth, by way of
alicetheowl. Unlocked.
This entry was originally posted at http://ms-daisy-cutter.dreamwidth.org/1976558.html. Please comment there using either your DW account or OpenID.