Paul Revere Riders are America’s Dokdo Riders
In the interest of fairness and equal opportunity, I feel compelled to share something.
I have been writing about the Dokdo Riders and their all-expenses-paid vacation quest to ride their motorcycles around the world to take a year off school and have fun educate Koreans non-koreans everywhere of the fact that the Dokdo Islands belong to Korea and that Korea must protect her islands to prevent an invasion by the Japanese.
I have been hard on the Dokdo Riders for masking a vacation in the guise of an actual crusade to protect Koreas borderds from the hordes of Japanese invaders. I have, however, been sympathetic and supportive of their ride in that it has been and will continue to be a trip of personal discovery for the Dokdo Riders and will broaden their horizions and understanding of what Americans and other non-Koreans are really like.
I would feel hypocritcal if I didn’t mention something about the Paul Revere Riders. The Paul Revere Riders are American Dokdo Riders. They are riding around the country to sound the alarm and raise the cry that the USA must protect her boarders to prevent an invasion from the hordes of foreign invaders!
The hyperbolic mission of the Paul Revere Riders is explaned thusly:
Paul Revere warned his fellow patriots. He and his fellow militia succeeded. They carried out their duty to God and their country—in their time.
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Like those who served to bring this nation into being, today’s patriots must ride to warn the nation in the early years of the 21st century. In the summer of 2006, please welcome brave men and women on modern day iron steeds that ride through hamlets, towns, cities and states to warn citizens of the ongoing invasion of illegal aliens across America’s borders.
These modern-day Paul Reveres carry instructions on “How to Stop the Illegal Alien Invasion” and will visit all 48 states and capitols on their way to Washington, DC. They ride to warn you and your loved ones. Yes, they ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles instead of horses—but their message echoes Revere’s ride.
…The Paul Revere Riders stand as sentinels, as patriots, as mothers and fathers that stand for their families, their country and God. When they pass by your town, give them a cheer. They carry the hopes and dreams of all Americans who love life, liberty and the American Dream.
“We will ride, as our forefathers before us, to warn Americans in 2006 of this destructive invasion of lawless foreigners that commandeers our American Republic.”-Frosty Wooldridge to Patriots to Preserve the American Republic.
As with the Dokdo Riders, I am sympathic and supportive of the Paul Revere Riders basic premise that the US borders are too open and that illegal immigration should be stopped, I would be much less critical if the ride was prevented for what it is…a publicity stunt designed to get funding for a cross country vacation while handing out overblown and over-wrought leaflets to people that already have an opinion. I would have much more respect for someone who said, “Dude, i love to ride. I’m going to take some time off and ride around the country. While I am enjoying myself, I will hand out some leaflets about a pet project I have.”
Regardless of how silly I find the “Paul Revere Riders” concept, I wish them a safe and happy trip….and more media attention than the Dokdo Riders seem to be getting.