While I am totally for freedom of speech and the right to bear arms as stated in our Constitution (though I am for some "common sense" gun control laws to which some traditionalists would disagree), this just gives me chills...Participants ready for tomorrow's open-carry rally outside D.C.
It is my belief that for this crowd, it is not about freedom of speech or the right to bear arms, but rather fear, anger, and perceived disenfranchisement. The anger here is palpable and I wonder how they will direct it and enact it.
I think that meetings like that are a blatant attempt to threaten and intimidate those who disgaree with the organisers' agenda.
ReplyDeleteI think that it's striking that when people tried to carry out the vision of armed "democratic" insurrection that these sorts of folks advocate, they were resisted with miltiary force by heroes of the Revolution. Benjamin Lincoln, who had accepted the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781, put down Shay's Rebellion in 1787. John Adams oversaw the suppression of Fries's Rebellion in 1800. And most famously, General Henry Lee, commander of Lee's Legion in the Revolution and fatehre of Robert E. Lee, marched at the express order of President George Washington and in command of 13,000 federalized militia from four states put down the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794, the ringleaders of which were convicted of treason and sentenced to death.
There is no place in this country for politics conducted under the threat of violence. It is simply unAmerican.