Fr. Z: You gotta like this guy's no-nonsense Missouri style

Fr. John Zuhlsdorf (aka "Fr. Z") writes, in a post entitled "Truculent truck owner" (WDTPRS, June 21, 2010):

This will probably irritate readers of the Democrat persuasion, and I’ll get silly messages that I am being political or partisan, blah blah blah. I respond in advance "piffle".

I simply like this guy’s no-nonsense Missouri style!

With a biretta tip to Sancte Pater comes this from the Kansas City Star along with my emphases and comments:

Missouri man’s incendiary sign on U.S. 71 draws fire
By DONALD BRADLEY
The Kansas City Star

David Jungerman farms 6,800 acres of river bottom land in western Missouri.

He’s not the kind of guy who posts on Twitter or has a Facebook profile.

So when the 72-year-old Raytown man wanted to speak out politically, he used what he had handy: a 45-foot-long, semi-truck box trailer.

Are you a Producer or Parasite
Democrats – Party of the Parasites

He planted the trailer with its professionally painted message in his Bates County cornfield along heavily traveled U.S. 71 about an hour south of Kansas City. He wanted lots of people to see it.

They did. Including at least one with a good case of outrage, matches and a can of gas. [!]

On May 12, Jungerman’s trailer was torched. The Rich Hill volunteer fire department responded. A week later, it was set afire again. The firefighters put it out again.

[But wait! There’s more!] Then flames erupted in an empty farm house that Jungerman owns.

“They don’t like free speech,” said Jungerman. He put out a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. [Not lying down at all. He has something to say!]

... Local Democrats don’t want to be linked to the arsons. [I should think not! Though I will watch for flames in my inbox.]

... Jungerman said he didn’t mean to direct his sign at local Democrats. Many of those are old-fashioned Harry Truman Democrats, he said.

“They’re more conservative than many Republicans,” he said. “I should have put an ad in the paper to explain that. No, I meant the national Democrat parasite base that is sucking this country dry. The ones that just take from the government and not give anything back.” [If only he could learn to speak his mind.]

But wait! There’s more! ... So read the whole article, if you're interested.

"And if any dems are getting into a twist over this," says Fr. Z, throwing them a bone, "check this out about Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL).

As to the expected reaction, the first comment on Fr. Z's post says it all. Suggesting a lack of "discretion" on Fr. Z's part, the reader fusses about the "increasing polarization of the political landscape," the destruction of "meaningful dialog" and "common ground issues," and how would you like it if the dems did the same to you, blah, blah, blah. In Fr. Z's pre-emptive word: "piffle." If you want national profiles in polarization, start with the White House and Capitol Hill.