So, there’s a bit of the spit-in-your-eye gumption left in the Golden State. The “Battle of Tinhorn Flats” was inaugurated by the son of the owner while his dad was overseas on business, with full approval of dad. While it didn’t end well – the eatery still fell under the iron boot of Newsom’s Council of Commissars like all the others – the episode showed that the spirit 1776 has a pulse in the People’s Republic. I’m inspired.
Check out this exchange between father and son at the onset of the imbroglio:
Son, Baret Lepejian, expresses the desire to reopen in spite of Newsom’s edicts and his father says that there are 30,000 closed restaurants in LA.
The younger Lepejian recalled: “100 percent fully aware, and I said there’s going to be 29,999, and there’s going to be one motherf***er that’s going to be open, and that’s going to be us.”
It’s reminiscent of Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe’s response to a German demand for the surrender of American forces in besieged Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944. He replied, “Nuts!” He was right in the end, and rescued by Patton, and the Germans lost. Which side do you think Newsom mirrors?
The Leperjians fought Newsom’s Stalinesque requisition squads down to Baret’s stays in goal and $50,000 in fines. When a judge orders the cut-off of power, employees brought in generators. When doors were chained and locked, employees used saws. When agents installed a chain-link barrier around the building, they set up a food truck and grill serving “non-comply tacos” and “freedom burgers”.
It turns out that gumption is more scientific than the self-important decrees of the state’s Ministry of Truth. The pandemic still raged in spite of all the lockdowns. Blanketing everyone’s face behind a secular burka didn’t stem the tide. School closures treated the young-ins the same as nursing home residents in complete disregard of the science (As for the teachers, they are essential workers like doctors, nurses, and truckers). The public square was awash in hypocrisies. I could go on, and none of it worked.
Newsom is only opening up to save his own political bacon, and before the rest of the state packs up and leaves.
“Remember Tinhorn Flats” will join “Remember the Alamo” in the annals of rallying cries for freedom. Please read the article about it.
RogerG