Comments on: R.I.P.: POPCORN SUTTON

By: Sonny

Sonny — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:38:04 +0000

sentence a man for trying to support himself in the back woods of Tennessee but the government can run guns to f—ing mexico and that`s okay. what a bunch of bullshit

By: NCShiner

NCShiner — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:31:46 +0000

To Ricksaunders: Amen to that brother, Amen to that!! You damn straight when you said that other fella can have his straight world, when someone abides by everything this crooked GOVT tells you then you are a slave, hell if the Govt had it theyre way, you’d be paying 90% of your income for taxes and the other 10% for other taxes, IE: drivers lic., road taxes, etc, I wonder if that other fella would be so willing to live in his little slice of heaven world and OBEY all the Govt.’s tyrannical laws when theyre telling him what to eat, where to eat it, what to watch on tv and when to watch it, who to associate with and when he can, hmmm… dont think he would be so ‘law abidin’ then huh? Hey, to the law abidin fella, you just keep your eayes closed and keep suckin the govt. tit, eventually you will get your just rewards for being so obediant…

By: ricksaunders

ricksaunders — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 04:52:04 +0000

If we do not choose which laws to obey we are not free.
To lump Sutton in with Meth cookers is ig’nunt and ill-informed. Marvin Sutton made a quality product and worked as hard at it as anyone does in their straight job. Probably harder. Ever try humpin’ endless 100lb bags of sugar up a mountainside? Should Sutton have joined the straight world and gotten a permit? Sure. Could have considering his prior record? No. No one said he was a hero. Sutton’d probably be the first to deny that. To say he’s no working man is absurd. I worked a cubicle for years. Does that make me more or less of a working man? Enjoy your straight world. You can have it. I’ll take all the freedom I can grab without infringing on yours. It ain’t illegal until you get caught.

By: Autopsy IV

Autopsy IV — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:11:32 +0000

we cant choose which laws we will obey….

we all do that.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:06:36 +0000

venerated moonshiner or a man too lazy for honest work? we cant choose which laws we will obey….Sutton,like many others,thought the law didnt apply to him. a true hero is a man who goes to work everyday and obeys the laws of the land…but sadly we tend to ignore the working man and make heroes out of people who never worked and paid the bills to operate this nation a day in their life.

moonshiners aint no different than meth cookers…..aint a hero in the bunch.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:12:07 +0000

I live in these mountains. I think popcorn lived his life and survived the way he was taught by his father and his father’s father. I think there was alot of wisdom lost. How many people in this world wish that their father could , maybe give them the same?

By: Autopsy IV

Autopsy IV — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:37:01 +0000

he made his choice to live the moonshiner’s life

that would be a great line in a song.

By: RonF.

RonF. — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:40:19 +0000

I never had the pleasure of meeting Popcorn Sutton, but he was a local legend in the area in which I live. His passing does feel like the end of an era, the last link to an almost vanished way of life. It’s sad that Sutton chose to end his life rather than report to prison, but it was his choice to make, just as he chose time and time again to return to making shine. He had plenty of run-ins over with law enforcement and the courts, and if he chose to he could have made a living legally, by essentially playing himself. But Popcorn wouldn’t do that. So, while I’m sad he’s gone, he made his choice to live the moonshiner’s life and has no one to blame except himself for the way the story ended.