“Captain Farmville Strikes Again,” a Facebook group with almost four-hundred members and over a hundred wall posts recounting special Captain moments, was disababled recently for being ”hateful and/or slanderous,” according to the group’s administrator.
Now that’s just doggone silly, Facebook. Captain Farmville, though legally required to stay off Longwood’s campus, is far from hated. Some of us are scared of him, some appreciate his contribution to our town’s character and lore, and some just wish he was still receiving regular psychiatric treatment. But no one we know hates the guy. How can you hate someone who waves a wand and conducts traffic with a passion that rivals Gustavo Dudamel?
Slanderous? Okay, maybe they have something there. But if they think that was bad, have they seen the Twitter account?
Illustration by Keith Byrdie
I wanted so much to be in the Captain Farmville group, but I couldn’t get invited. Sorry, I just had to throw that in there.
Onto more important things, I think that it is wrong to disband a group based on a major person in a town. Captain Farmville is a source of inspiration for many people. Who else has such patriotic clothing? NO ONE! He is a guiding light for those of us who have doubts about America. He loves this country and he loves Farmville.