Tuesday, August 16, 2005
New Steps in War on Terror?
KOBTV.com - Pete Who? Officials take pistol away from NMSU mascot: "New Mexico State University?s mascot, Pistol Pete, is being disarmed.
University officials also are stripping the word Pistol from Pete?s name.
The changes are part of a marketing plan to remake the university's image on the national stage."
The new mascot will have a lasso --- Lasso Pete? Seems more like the mascot for a new grocery store, "Come on in and lasso some good bargains."
Why is disarming the mascot is perceived as making the university image more palatable on the national stage? (The answer is that the "national stage," as defined by the blue metrosexual parenthesis of the nation, i.e., the coasts, is a place ruled by political correctness and the gunban crowd). Besides throwing away a great local tradition, the move ignores the personal right to bear arms recognized by the Constitution. NMSU had one of the few mascots who actually portrayed a constitutional right -- now he will just twirl a rope -- perhaps making him able to rope and tie, thus violating other's constitutional rights against search and seizure (of course that's only if Pete is deemed to be a state actor).
University officials also are stripping the word Pistol from Pete?s name.
The changes are part of a marketing plan to remake the university's image on the national stage."
The new mascot will have a lasso --- Lasso Pete? Seems more like the mascot for a new grocery store, "Come on in and lasso some good bargains."
Why is disarming the mascot is perceived as making the university image more palatable on the national stage? (The answer is that the "national stage," as defined by the blue metrosexual parenthesis of the nation, i.e., the coasts, is a place ruled by political correctness and the gunban crowd). Besides throwing away a great local tradition, the move ignores the personal right to bear arms recognized by the Constitution. NMSU had one of the few mascots who actually portrayed a constitutional right -- now he will just twirl a rope -- perhaps making him able to rope and tie, thus violating other's constitutional rights against search and seizure (of course that's only if Pete is deemed to be a state actor).
// posted by Zerin Hood @ 10:24 AM 
