Coal, Guns, and Rock and Roll

He’s perhaps the most conspicuous face and voice on the front of the modern day Second Amendment defense team.   Monday, the Motor City Madman will arrive in West Virginia to deliver his own special brand of logic to the Labor Day gathering and concert in Logan County.

Ted Nugent will emcee an event that has grown to well over 100-thousand fans in what organizers call a solid protest of the current attitude in Washington toward the nation’s coal industry.

"I love the term blood brothers," said Nugent during a recent conversation on West Virginia Outdoors. "I have been hunting, fishing, and trapping my entire 60-years clean and sober and I’m surrounded constantly by the world’s greatest conservation families.   Whenever I come to an event where there are so many NRA members, there are so many hunters, fishermen, and trappers they truly are blood brothers."

Nugent is never one to hold back on an opinion, and won’t likely start Monday as he addresses what could be the largest crowd to ever assemble for any event in West Virginia history.

"We need to take this country back.  We are watching a White House, and a Congress who are spitting in the face of the hardest working Americans.  That are spiting in the face of the U.S. Constitution," railed Nugent.  "You’ve got a lunatic, extreme fringe of just stoned, maniac hippies who think that animals have rights!" 

"You’ve got a President of the United States whose administration is filled with people who are on the record as being Communists.  On the record believing trees, and sheep, and deer have the right to sue people!"

The Nuge and The Beast

Nugent will appear at the event with Fox News personality Sean Hannity, and country music stars John Rich and Hank Williams Jr.  Organizers say the aim of the event is to protest the handling of Cap and Trade legislation in Washington.  However, it has transformed into a gathering of like minded individuals with a laundry list of concerns including the future of coal mining and protections of the Second Amendment.

"We all unite to make sure than our environment is optimized and that our rights are always guaranteed and to make sure that those who get in the way of those rights are either fixed or crushed," Nugent said. "It’s going to be a wonderful celebration of self-evident truth and God-given rights and I couldn’t be more proud to be invited."