I’ve been watching a lot of Marshall Dillon and Gunsmoke on Encore Westerns in the evenings when I get on the treadmill.
It is clear that he is responsible for the current nanny state we find ourselves in. Pretty much every episode he is taking someone’s gun away from them. He is constantly telling someone that they have had enough to drink and forcing them to go home. He frequently locks someone up in jail, just for their own good. And how many times does he just flat out run someone out of town? Search warrants or probable cause? Matt Dillon doesn’t need no stinkin’ warrants.
I always thought the wild west was supposed to be like a libertarian’s wet dream, now I realize that it is the worst nanny state imaginable with constitutional rights trampled constantly.
I’ve been watching a lot of Marshall Dillon and Gunsmoke on Encore Westerns in the evenings when I get on the treadmill.
It is clear that he is responsible for the current nanny state we find ourselves in. Pretty much every episode he is taking someone’s gun away from them. He is constantly telling someone that they have had enough to drink and forcing them to go home. He frequently locks someone up in jail, just for their own good. And how many times does he just flat out run someone out of town? Search warrants or probable cause? Matt Dillon doesn’t need no stinkin’ warrants.
I always thought the wild west was supposed to be like a libertarian’s wet dream, now I realize that it is the worst nanny state imaginable with constitutional rights trampled constantly.