Armed mercenaries guarding proposed mine site in Wisconsin

[JayhawkSD]

21. This post is wierd.

The first paragraph contanis such poor grammar that it's hard to deciphere what he's saying, but he seems to be saying that what is posing as US Army is actually private guards. He is either posing this as a question or asserting it as a statement, but I'm not sure which. If they are private guards, then the governor and Tea Party should be proud of them, but the reason for that pride is left to our imagination.

The article he quotes thinks that 21,000 acres is a "vast area," which it is not, it's the size of a very small city. It also says that it would become the "world's largest taconite mine," which is laughable. Minnesota has taconite mines that cover hundreds of square miles.

Taconite is, as pointed out, low grade iron ore as is literally as common as dirt so nobody is going to be stealing it. If they did steal it they would not be able to do anything with it, because it's only worth about $30 per ton. It has to be extracted in the thousands of tons to be worth any significant amount of money.

Finally, the writer needs to look up the definition of Fascism, because this ain't it.