The Salon Militia

I hate going through Salon's pain in the butt ad in order to view their content, so I am going to refer to Instapundit for this latest little gem from Salon:

SALON'S CARY TENNIS TALKS REVOLUTION:

At a certain point in the near future, if the current oligarchy cannot be removed via the ballot, direct political action may become an urgent and compelling mission. It may then be necessary for many people in many walks of life to put their bodies on the line. For the moment, however, although pressing and profound questions have arisen about whether the current government is even legitimate, i.e., properly elected, there still remains a chance to remove this government peacefully in the 2008 election. (Or am I living in a dream world?)

I do think this regime's removal is the most urgent matter before the country today. . . . This is all terrible and rather fantastic to contemplate. But what assurances have we that it is not all quite plausible? Having discarded the principles that Jefferson & Co. espoused, the current regime seems capable of anything. I know that my imagination is a feverish instrument. But are we not living in feverish times, in times of the unthinkable?

"Feverish," indeed. Apparently, Tennis is ready to join a militia, since he's saying the kind of stuff they were saying in 1995.

Amusing. Wouldn't it be ironic and more than a little bit funny if militias became the enterprise of the left? After tarring the right in the 1990's over militias which the right largely eschewed, the mainstream of the left embraces them. I can see it now. Biodegradeable bomb shelters stocked with tofu, powered by fragile solar cells positioned so as not to kill a single blade of prairie grass. Instead of ammunition dumps, they have huge piles of rocks and sticks to hurl at their adversaries (no human can be trusted with a firearm, after all). And there would be room for two of every animal in the shelters, except those on government land, because that would violate the seperation of church and state, afterall.

And of course, by "put their bodies on the line," Tennis must mean sexual warfare, because it seems as though the left has reduced the body to little more than sexual (but not reproductive) machine.

(Yes, this post is heavy with generalization. That's what makes it so fun.)