The Heroic Lone Tuba Player who Should Have Stolen the Show at the South Carolina Confederate Flag Demonstration
By Nate Thayer
July 25, 2015
The whole South Carolina "Ku Klux Klan" demonstration to "defend the Confederate flag" one week ago never happened.
At least it did not happen as it was portrayed.
First, there were almost no KKK present. There is no one, single Ku Klux Klan. The demonstration was not organized by any of the (at my last count) 139 KKK groups in the U.S. More accurately, it was organized by no one.
Second, the demonstrators were mainly U.S. Nazis.
Third, the most poignant attendee who should have gotten the most attention because he best defined the event was a lone South Carolinian with a sousaphone – which is like a tuba who marched with the Nazi's making fun of the whole spectacle by playing his instrument as if the entire event was a cartoon.
Matt Buck, who was one of the few who was actually from Columbia South Carolina, played a goofy cadence of the tune of Wagner's 'Ride of the Valkyries', marching beside the Nazis, serenading them, much to the confusion of the Nazi's and smattering of fringe KKK guys and gals, making fun of both them and the whole event.
"In Blues Brothers, they use it to make fun of the Nazis," said Buck of the 'Ride of the Valkyries.'
Actually, Buck played two tunes.
You can listen to and watch the video here: https://youtu.be/Rs4P1kKK-5k or
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2 Reader Comments
barker says
(2015-07-30T22:26:55-05:00)
it is strange how I Imperial Wizard Chris Barker works for the F.B.I but could not attend the rally due to my probation of felon with a fire arm. if i did work for the F.B.I I would be allowed to go to every rally to get names or set people up. Or why in the other article he refers to J.B. Elmore who was arrested the same time I was same charge but with auto weapons and served less time then me. My main words for this DUH Ancona
Daniel M. Harrison says
(2015-08-02T02:29:38-05:00)
What is even stranger though is how white people are so bad these days at punctuation and basic grammar, don’t you think? Whatever would the Founding Fathers think? It makes me wonder whether we shouldn’t just all convert to one of those South Equatorial languages (look that up if it’s beyond the Federal encyclopedia these days); perhaps a Sanskrit or Mongolian based one such as Brahmi or Vietnamese - those, you will be excited to hear, don’t require mastery of complex tasks such as capitalized sentences, past, future, present, pluperfect and imperfect tense clauses or menacing split infinitives. Then again, you’d have the tones to contend with, and judging by this implicitly cacophonous symphony of public relations misdirection, the FBI ought to spend some of the Federal Budget on doing its job of protecting Americans of all creeds and classes rather than attacking the journalists informing them. But hey, I’m just an educated white guy with a severe attitude problem when it comes to dumb guys using dumber ones in positions of authority, so what would I know, right?
Well done, anyway - this was a truly brilliant defense of the FBI disguised as something written by a dumb white guy. The problem is, you’re a bit slow, you boys at the Federal Bureau - cause the same dumb white guy who forgets to dot the i’s and cross the t’s most commonly of all doesn’t get that you also have to capitalize or punctuate proper nouns such as J.B. Elmore (he writes Jb elmore or something), completely giving away the “dumb guy disguise.”
Seriously - where are you guys even recruiting from these days. There are some wonderful Universities in the South Pacific, Sub Saharan Africa and LatAm if you are short on talent …? The self-exposure of your complete lack of professional conduct is one of the reasons I love Nate’s blog (one of the few examples of the remaining smart white guys around - the guy who writes it - is the other main reason, just in case you are curious).