(Theme from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is playing )

It’s High Noon near the OK Corral in Washington, DC. The NRA convention is being held at the meeting room of the Long Branch Saloon just down the street.  The ornery varmint Ted Nugent steps up to the microphone.

He begins by talking about gun control, then the First and the Second Amendment.  This gunslinger speaks for a few minutes and then moseys on in to politics.  The more he says, the angrier he gets.  He is a far right Republican, you know.

Then it happens, Gunslinger Nugent draws his gun, and a shot rings out of his mouth…..”Obama and his colleagues need to be shot like coyotes.  We need to ride into that battlefield, and chop their heads off in November.  If Barack Obama is elected, I’ll either be dead or in jail this time next year”.

As John Wayne would have said, “them’s some  pretty mean words there, Pilgrim”.

A silence falls over the crowd.  It got so quiet, that you could have heard a feather fall out of Ms. Kitty’s bola and hit the wooden floor of the Long Branch.  “Did he say what I think he said”?  “Is he crazy”?  “What was he thinking”?  “OMG, did Ted Nugent just threaten the life of the Sheriff”?

Well……No……Not Really.

The First Amendment gives us the right to Free Speech.  Although, it is against the law to threaten the life of a government official, Ted fell short of that.  Some people could consider the remark a threat, but he actually was exercising his Constitutional right to Free Speech.   Since Ted’s remarks were not direct threats, he wasn’t nabbed and put in the Dodge City jail.

But, the arrogant Sheriff Obama wasn’t taking any chances.  He rounds up a posse (the Secret Service) to investigate, interrogate, and harass the ol’ gunslinger.  Anybody with a grain of sense should know that Ted Nugent for the past forty years has been shooting his mouth off.  The only person that he is a threat to, is himself.

The posse tracks him down and hauls him in for questioning.  After a grueling forty minutes of interrogation (forty minutes? Apparently the posse didn’t think he did anything wrong either) the only thing he was charged with is an illegal killing of a black bear on his outdoor hunting show.

Well, so much for a shootout at the OK Corral.  I’d say Ted Nugent won, and Sheriff Obama isn’t smart enough to see it.

Wait. Teds not done yet.  On a CBS interview a few days later he states this:  “I feel sorry for liberals who can be that brain-dead to take a clear statement of fear on my part and turn it into a threat on somebody else.  I don’t think their [Secret Service] concern was that I threatened someone, I think their concern is that someone claimed I threatened someone. In fact, I got to tell you, and I don’t mean to put any professionals on the spot, but — and I don’t have the greatest hearing in the world — but I thought I heard something to the point of, ‘I didn’t think so.’”

The battle lines are drawn.  We will have to wait and see who wins the shootout.  My monies on Ted.

Til we meet again (Happy Trails)

FB  05/05/12