News from Brownbackistan - Shock and Awe

We woke up to quite a surprise in Brownbackistan this morning. If the tyrant Sam has intervened for his bro (law 'enforcement' acts like he has), it may be a new day here.

http://www.salina.com/news/state/brownback-s-brother/article_87456b5d-e975-5191-9767-4d93696c930f.html

PARKER — Fields lined with crops and pastures dotted with livestock surround a trigger-happy bully who brags about a political cloak of invincibility keeping him beyond reach of the law in faithfully conservative Linn County.

Adversaries say he’s woven a liquor-infused tapestry of fear. The conflict features drive-by gunfire, death threats, explosions, stalking, trespassing, cattle theft and more. Descriptions offered by neighbors converge to reveal a potentially lethal menace. So far, their nemesis has found no reason to relent.

Not when your name is Jim Brownback and you’re a brother to Sam, the most powerful politician in Kansas.

Parker farmer Ben Katzer, who lives near Jim Brownback, said the governor’s younger sibling didn’t hesitate to rub salt in wounds inflicted on others by boasting, “Nobody can touch me.

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Incidents were punctuated by sporadic gunfire and colored by explosions from Jim Brownback’s farm that met the definition of shock-and-awe. Brownback packed Tannerite in jars and detonated the mixture with high-velocity rounds. He ignored an investigator’s suggestion to knock it off.

“It’s legal,” Jim Brownback said. “It’s legal.”

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