Now I don’t believe that the word “angry” or “white” really belongs in the title of this description. We are not always angry and certainly we are not entirely white; we do not walk around looking for fights or exchanging arguments with the idiots who make these sissy rules. Most of the time we just take it, knowing deep down that these stupidities that the intelligentsia seems to be able to license as truths and knowledge will soon pass. We have lived most of ours lives believing that there could not be so many fools in the world, yet now, it seems that there are, and they seem to be running the world. They are everywhere; they are our neighbors, our customers, our second cousins and co-workers; they have become our local governing bodies, they might even be our brothers. Our Brothers! Raised in the same environment as ourselves, but taken by some forbidding force on some implausible tangent into absurdity.

Now I want to ask these critics of our “angry white men” a few questions. If your community was devastated by some disaster, natural or otherwise and civil disorder was rampant, looting and thuggery became the order of the day. Who would you look to for guidance, protection and leadership? Would it be the environmentally responsible Prius owner or the quiet guy at the end of the block, who is always messing around with his teenagers ATV, and happens to keep a 1976 Jeep and several extra gallons of gasoline in the garage? When the cold winds come, would you knock on the door of the tree hugger next door or the “angry white man” with the slightly disheveled yard and over-abundant wood-pile beside the shed that contains a back-up generator? Who would you ask to help you to feed your family; the veggan, whose refrigerator now holds nothing but wilted lettuce, tofu and soy beans, or the NRA member who bags a buck just about every year, then butchers, cooks and eats the deer? And if events get really bad and gangs are roaming your neighborhood, raping and looting; would you run to your neighbor the socially responsible multicultural studies professor who also heads the local anti-gun group, who will undoubtedly be cowering in his basement, waiting for someone to rescue him or the “angry white man” who lives in the original one hundred year old farm-house, now surrounded by cookie cutter homes, who owns several handguns and knows how to use them?

In most cases, you would not have to look for “the angry white man,” he will be there, giving you guidance and help, without thinking about it, without wanting or expecting gratitude. It’s what he is. It’s who he is. His thanks will be in seeing you and your children live.

If you happen to be on an airplane, in another Flight 93 situation; who do you want on the plane with you? Would you prefer a delegation of the American Civil Liberties Union heading to San Francisco for a conference or a group of elk hunters on their way to a hunting expedition in Wyoming?

If, we ever find ourselves in a struggle to rebuild a civil society, who would you want as a leader? Would it be the local mayor, who took his oath of office on the Bible and believes in the constitution and all that it represents and maintains absolute understanding of its literal interpretation; or the semi-educated, misguided and idealistic college student who has spent several semesters with Karl Marx, learning and believing the devastating ruse of communism’s disproved theories?

Now some of you critics out there may believe that the “angry white man” wishes for the scenarios described, and there probably are a few out there. However, the vast majority of us want nothing but to be left alone to do for ourselves, our families and our friends. We know that we can do it. Please stop telling us how to do it. Please stop making new laws that confuse and contort the meanings of right and wrong; legal and illegal. We want to and will proceed with our lives in methods that are logical, sensible and reasonable and we certainly resent that you, you who have nothing to offer, nothing to bargain, nothing to improve, insist on naming us as backward and stupid. We are educated, maybe not in the great halls of Princeton or Harvard, but educated none the less, by our fathers, our mothers, our aunts and uncles, our high school coaches, by the mountain trails we hike and the streams we fish, our buddies at the lunch counter and our local bar, and in very many cases at Penn State or Michigan State, and perhaps most importantly by our own lives and the consequences of our decisions.

We resent that you do not understand the nature of our enemy, an enemy that attacked us; an enemy whose face you refuse to see. We resent that against all logic, you insist that all cultures are equal. And that a culture that will strap a bomb on their children gains more respect from you than a culture that feeds the world. We resent the faces of Hollywood you worship, which are the source of the hatred that the enemy feels towards us, directing disdain at us. Modern Hollywood is what our enemies know of us, and we are not modern Hollywood. We resent that you think we are the human dredges that appear on Jerry Springer, yet we detest the way that the human debris of your convoluted morality is paraded for your entertainment. We resent that you refuse to understand that the free flow and affordability of oil is as important to you and the entire world as the air and water that you claim to regard as so precious. We cannot fathom a mind that refuses to understand that without oil, the world would be in a state of catastrophic chaos. Dependence on clean water and air are divine, yet to you, dependence on affordable oil is evil. We resent that you believe that we care nothing about the environment, when it is we who know that the current dependency on oil is a temporary affair in the history of man. The mind of man will find eventually find an alternative. We know, by our walks through the wilderness that in a very short time nature will recapture any ground we have moved and correct any mistakes that we have made. It always does and always will. We know that to believe, as you do, that the impact of man is more powerful than the laws of nature is insufferable arrogance.

We resent that while labeling us racists and, you hold Condoleeza Rice in abject contempt. To us, it does not matter if her ethnic background were white, Asian, Hispanic or American Indian. To us; she is “our girl.” And I believe most of us would be proud to be known as her “men.” Without doubt she clearly represents what is so very great about this country. And most of us look forward to the prospect she or a person like her runs for President. We resent that while you continue to present disagreement as disrespect, perform dissent as disloyalty, you always claim your intentions are misunderstood.

We resent the likes of Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama selling snake oil to those that you and they have managed to dumb-down, confuse and bamboozle. We know that if they are successful with the sales pitch and enough of the population drinks the poison, we and our children will be stuck with the bill. We know it and feel trapped by the prospect. We know that you will still depend on us, and demand of us that we carry your load as well as our own. We resent this state of affairs even as we continue to be a slave to it. That it seems, is what we do. For how long is the eventual question.

Atlas twitched and soon will shrug.