“The future must not belong to those who would slander the prophet of Islam.” – President Barrack Obama, September 2012.
http://floppingaces.net/2015/01/07/the-future-must-not-belong-to-those-who-would-slander-the-prophet-of-islam/
When younger, I sometimes heard people my grandparents’ and parents’ age claim Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were misunderstood, youngsters done in by police and bankers.
No, Bonnie and Clyde are not the same as Mohammad, instigator of death. But the idea of innocence anywhere near Parker/Barrow and Mohammad is all of the same idiocy.
As my mother-in-law said before my youngest’s first deployment to Iraq: “I used to wonder why God sometimes said ‘Kill them all.’ Now I understand.”
Showing posts with label Bonnie and Clyde. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bonnie and Clyde. Show all posts
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Parker and Barrow got around
In 2000, a man in Lamar County, Texas, mentioned the time Bonnie and Clyde came to Paris.
“The sheriff got word from Oklahoma law officers that Bonnie and Clyde were seen headed for Texas. Well, the sheriff got some men together and deputized them and sent them to various places where Bonnie and Clyde might get across the Red River. He told them to stop every car that came along.
“The sheriff took a few old boys out to the Highway 271 bridge and set up a road block. He put his new deputies behind the cars.
“Highway 271 wasn’t paved then. It was dirt and gravel, so you could see a long way off when a car was coming. There’d be a big plume of dust in the air.
“The highway was a pretty well-traveled road, you know, between Paris and Hugo. Cars and trucks made the trip every day.
“The sheriff stopped every car and every truck that came along. His deputies were real interested in what was going on, but they didn’t find anything unusual.
“Well, sometime around noon they saw a big plume of dust that meant a car traveling fast. The sheriff told his deputies to get behind the cars. He walked to the middle of the road and waited. The car slowed and then stopped. The sheriff could see two people in the front seat. He walked up to the driver’s window. There was a man and a woman in the front seat. In the back seat was a man with a bloody bandage around his right arm.
“The driver said, ‘Good morning, Sheriff. Is there a problem?’ The sheriff said, “Nope. We’re just checking cars coming from Oklahoma.’ The driver said, ‘We’re looking for a doctor. Our friend got shot in a hunting accident.’
“Now, there wasn’t any hunting season at that time, not in Oklahoma or Texas. The sheriff knew that. He looked at the man driving the car and he looked at the woman in the passenger seat and he looked at the man with the bloody bandage. He thought about the five men behind the cars. They had shotguns and never shot anything but dove and quail and such.
“The sheriff stepped back from the car and he said, ‘Paris is a few miles down the road. You can find a doctor there.’ The driver smiled and he said, ‘Thank you, Sheriff. We’ll be on our way.’”
The man telling the story said, “I think the sheriff showed good judgment.”
A few months later, I was in Honey Grove, a few miles west of Paris, in Fannin County. I don’t remember what I was covering there, but at some point an older man said, “Say, you ever hear about the time Bonnie and Clyde came to Fannin County?” I said I had not. The man said, “Well, I don’t remember what year it was, probably 1933 or ’34, the sheriff got word Bonnie and Clyde was driving across Oklahoma, headed for Texas. The sheriff deputized several men and took them up to the bridge north of Bonham …”
Bonnie and Clyde were busy people, making trips to Paris and Bonham, at both river crossings met by a rural sheriff with deputies inexperienced in all facets of law enforcement. Probably, Parker and Barrow made the same drive into Red River County and Bowie County to the east, and into Grayson County and Cooke County to the west, maybe into every county that had a bridge across the Red River.
“The sheriff got word from Oklahoma law officers that Bonnie and Clyde were seen headed for Texas. Well, the sheriff got some men together and deputized them and sent them to various places where Bonnie and Clyde might get across the Red River. He told them to stop every car that came along.
“The sheriff took a few old boys out to the Highway 271 bridge and set up a road block. He put his new deputies behind the cars.
“Highway 271 wasn’t paved then. It was dirt and gravel, so you could see a long way off when a car was coming. There’d be a big plume of dust in the air.
“The highway was a pretty well-traveled road, you know, between Paris and Hugo. Cars and trucks made the trip every day.
“The sheriff stopped every car and every truck that came along. His deputies were real interested in what was going on, but they didn’t find anything unusual.
“Well, sometime around noon they saw a big plume of dust that meant a car traveling fast. The sheriff told his deputies to get behind the cars. He walked to the middle of the road and waited. The car slowed and then stopped. The sheriff could see two people in the front seat. He walked up to the driver’s window. There was a man and a woman in the front seat. In the back seat was a man with a bloody bandage around his right arm.
“The driver said, ‘Good morning, Sheriff. Is there a problem?’ The sheriff said, “Nope. We’re just checking cars coming from Oklahoma.’ The driver said, ‘We’re looking for a doctor. Our friend got shot in a hunting accident.’
“Now, there wasn’t any hunting season at that time, not in Oklahoma or Texas. The sheriff knew that. He looked at the man driving the car and he looked at the woman in the passenger seat and he looked at the man with the bloody bandage. He thought about the five men behind the cars. They had shotguns and never shot anything but dove and quail and such.
“The sheriff stepped back from the car and he said, ‘Paris is a few miles down the road. You can find a doctor there.’ The driver smiled and he said, ‘Thank you, Sheriff. We’ll be on our way.’”
The man telling the story said, “I think the sheriff showed good judgment.”
A few months later, I was in Honey Grove, a few miles west of Paris, in Fannin County. I don’t remember what I was covering there, but at some point an older man said, “Say, you ever hear about the time Bonnie and Clyde came to Fannin County?” I said I had not. The man said, “Well, I don’t remember what year it was, probably 1933 or ’34, the sheriff got word Bonnie and Clyde was driving across Oklahoma, headed for Texas. The sheriff deputized several men and took them up to the bridge north of Bonham …”
Bonnie and Clyde were busy people, making trips to Paris and Bonham, at both river crossings met by a rural sheriff with deputies inexperienced in all facets of law enforcement. Probably, Parker and Barrow made the same drive into Red River County and Bowie County to the east, and into Grayson County and Cooke County to the west, maybe into every county that had a bridge across the Red River.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Bonnie and Clyde
The mother of a young woman I dated in 1969 said, apropos of I don’t remember what, “You know, Bonnie and Clyde didn’t do half the things people accused them of doing. They were just young people in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
I didn’t make any kind of reply. There was nothing to say that would have changed her mind, and the young woman and I were in the early dating stage, meaning I really didn't want to anything that would have PO'd her parents.
Some things you just nod your head and continue the march.
I have never seen the movie Bonnie and Clyde. I will not see the movie, unless someone ties me to a chair and forces me to watch. I knew from other people’s comments and from trailers that the movie was historically inaccurate and it made heroes of two hot-blooded killers.
What I did not consider over the years was the liberal politics of the movie.
Ed Driscoll quotes Rick Perlstein, promoting his book Nixonland:
“My theory is that Bonnie and Clyde was the most important text of the New Left ... It made an argument about vitality and virtue vs. staidness and morality that was completely new, that resonated with young people in a way that made no sense to old people. Just the idea that the outlaws were the good guys and the bourgeois householders were the bad guys—you cannot underestimate [sic] how strange and fresh that was.”
http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2012/03/26/kill-em-all-let-pauline-kael-sort-it-out/
Wait a minute, wait a minute. “Virtue” vs. “morality?” Perlstein should have studied at least a little political history before subectifying virtue and morality. Before the “important text of the New Left,” virtue and morality were the same.
Driscoll’s piece is good writing and good argument about an industry that has taken unto itself the determination of what we should believe, and the industry's definition of morality.
Driscoll’s piece is linked from maggiesfarm.
I didn’t make any kind of reply. There was nothing to say that would have changed her mind, and the young woman and I were in the early dating stage, meaning I really didn't want to anything that would have PO'd her parents.
Some things you just nod your head and continue the march.
I have never seen the movie Bonnie and Clyde. I will not see the movie, unless someone ties me to a chair and forces me to watch. I knew from other people’s comments and from trailers that the movie was historically inaccurate and it made heroes of two hot-blooded killers.
What I did not consider over the years was the liberal politics of the movie.
Ed Driscoll quotes Rick Perlstein, promoting his book Nixonland:
“My theory is that Bonnie and Clyde was the most important text of the New Left ... It made an argument about vitality and virtue vs. staidness and morality that was completely new, that resonated with young people in a way that made no sense to old people. Just the idea that the outlaws were the good guys and the bourgeois householders were the bad guys—you cannot underestimate [sic] how strange and fresh that was.”
http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2012/03/26/kill-em-all-let-pauline-kael-sort-it-out/
Wait a minute, wait a minute. “Virtue” vs. “morality?” Perlstein should have studied at least a little political history before subectifying virtue and morality. Before the “important text of the New Left,” virtue and morality were the same.
Driscoll’s piece is good writing and good argument about an industry that has taken unto itself the determination of what we should believe, and the industry's definition of morality.
Driscoll’s piece is linked from maggiesfarm.
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