I always enjoy your writing, but I have to say I'm disappointed about your characterization of Martin Heemeyer. There was a man who simply wanted to work, to run his business, and bureaucracy made it impossible for him. Everyone knows the frustration of bureaucratic obstacles. Mentally ill, perhaps he was, I'm not qualified to assess. Bu…
I always enjoy your writing, but I have to say I'm disappointed about your characterization of Martin Heemeyer. There was a man who simply wanted to work, to run his business, and bureaucracy made it impossible for him. Everyone knows the frustration of bureaucratic obstacles. Mentally ill, perhaps he was, I'm not qualified to assess. But he was certainly driven by frustration, and I can relate -
I think we perhaps could use more bulldozers, not less. How else to checkmate a belligerent, obtuse, and uncaring bureaucracy?
And then you cite Wikipedia as though they are a reliable source? My dude, come on.
I mean, it's good enough for the state - they don't mind bulldozing things they find inconvenient. As I understand, the Oklahoma bombing derailed the Clinton/Whitewater investigation permanently. And *for certain* the pentagon was struck by a missile (that was not an airplane) in exactly the offices that were auditing the missing three trillion dollars that Donald Rumsfeld told America about, just one day prior, killing the people doing the investigation, and with them, the investigation itself. And it seems also that there were some important investigations underway in WTC 7 that disappeared with the building.
There are rules of civilization, and they are a good thing. But we can see clearly that *elements* within our "leadership" do not and will not play by the same rules. How then, to interact with them?
I initially had the exact same perception on Martin Heemeyer that you did. However, after I wanted to include him in another article as an example to prove a different point, I read up on him in more detail and realized that the way he's commonly portrayed on the internet as a folk hero was not accurate and a lot of people tried to work with him but he was extremely resistant to any reasonable compromise.
My husband knew Marvin through the snowmobiling community in Grand Lake. From what my husband told me, and through my own experience living and working in Grand County for decades, not everyone in this community wants to work with others (though they might present themselves otherwise). I suppose this is the same as anywhere else, and there are always at least 3 sides to every story. Thank you for not demonizing Marvin.
So far I haven't detected any ideological biases when I look up, say, the chemsitry of fatty acids, or the role Magnesium plays in human biology. But get into the topic of certain diseases, say, Monkeypox, no wait, it's been renamed Mpox because...
I always enjoy your writing, but I have to say I'm disappointed about your characterization of Martin Heemeyer. There was a man who simply wanted to work, to run his business, and bureaucracy made it impossible for him. Everyone knows the frustration of bureaucratic obstacles. Mentally ill, perhaps he was, I'm not qualified to assess. But he was certainly driven by frustration, and I can relate -
I think we perhaps could use more bulldozers, not less. How else to checkmate a belligerent, obtuse, and uncaring bureaucracy?
And then you cite Wikipedia as though they are a reliable source? My dude, come on.
I mean, it's good enough for the state - they don't mind bulldozing things they find inconvenient. As I understand, the Oklahoma bombing derailed the Clinton/Whitewater investigation permanently. And *for certain* the pentagon was struck by a missile (that was not an airplane) in exactly the offices that were auditing the missing three trillion dollars that Donald Rumsfeld told America about, just one day prior, killing the people doing the investigation, and with them, the investigation itself. And it seems also that there were some important investigations underway in WTC 7 that disappeared with the building.
There are rules of civilization, and they are a good thing. But we can see clearly that *elements* within our "leadership" do not and will not play by the same rules. How then, to interact with them?
I initially had the exact same perception on Martin Heemeyer that you did. However, after I wanted to include him in another article as an example to prove a different point, I read up on him in more detail and realized that the way he's commonly portrayed on the internet as a folk hero was not accurate and a lot of people tried to work with him but he was extremely resistant to any reasonable compromise.
My husband knew Marvin through the snowmobiling community in Grand Lake. From what my husband told me, and through my own experience living and working in Grand County for decades, not everyone in this community wants to work with others (though they might present themselves otherwise). I suppose this is the same as anywhere else, and there are always at least 3 sides to every story. Thank you for not demonizing Marvin.
Wikipedia is nothing but BS
On anything slightly controversial - yes.
But at least we can count on them to find the names of the various members of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
So far I haven't detected any ideological biases when I look up, say, the chemsitry of fatty acids, or the role Magnesium plays in human biology. But get into the topic of certain diseases, say, Monkeypox, no wait, it's been renamed Mpox because...