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Utah is a Pretty Great State for angry white male tea partiers and policemen who admire the SS. A white guy can open carry his AK-47 in JC Penney, but a black teenager with a replica sword is swarmed by police and gunned down.
I guess that is normal for a state where Romneycare = Good but Obamacare = Bad. A state where the San Juan County commissioner leads illegal ATV rides across closed BLM land and our Sen. Lee celebrates Cliven Bundy's armed rebellion because he doesn't want to pay his grazing fees or taxes like the rest of us little people.
I must say, if I hear one more tea partier tell me they are not racists and that the country needs to enforce the "rule of law," I am going to vomit. Is it possible to be any more hypocritical?
Melissa Hofer
Layton