[StBernard] Rattlesnakes

[Westley Annis]

	I didn't write this, but it reflects my sentiments.
	 
	Rattlesnakes
	  
	Now the news media will spend days trying to determine why these men
did what they did in Boston. They will want to know what America did to make
these brothers so angry with us. They will want to know why these men were
not arrested before they did something unlawful. The media will be in a
tissy about the new era of home grown radicals and about how they could live
among us and still hate us. 
	  
	Here in west Texas, I have rattlesnakes on my place. I have killed a
rattlesnake on the front porch. I have killed a rattlesnake on the back
porch. I have killed rattlesnakes in the barn, in the shop and on the
driveway. I kill every rattlesnake I encounter. I kill rattlesnakes because
a rattlesnake will bite me and inflict me with poison. I don't stop to
wonder why a rattlesnake will bite me. It will bite me because it is a
rattlesnake and that is what rattlesnakes do. I don't try to reason with a
rattlesnake.I just kill it. 
	  
	I don't try to get to know the rattlesnake better so that I can find
a way to live with the rattlesnakes and convince them not to bite me.I just
kill them. I don't quiz a rattlesnake to see it I can find out where the
other snakes are because (a) it won't tell me (b) I already know that they
live on my place.I just kill the rattlesnake and move on to the next one. 
	  
	I don't look for ways that I might be able to change the rattlesnake
to a non poison rat snake. I just kill it. Oh, and on occasion I kill a rat
snake, because I thought it was a rattlesnake at the time. Also, I know that
for every rattlesnake that I kill, two more lurk out there. In my lifetime I
will never be able to rid my place of rattlesnakes. Do I fear them? No! Do I
respect what they can do to me? Yes! And because of that respect I give them
their fair justice..I kill them. 
	 
	Maybe as a country we should give more credit to the jihadist just
being a rattlesnake!