Posted on 12/28/2012 10:03:18 AM PST by Errant
...Revolution? Yes, it all sounds rather “extreme”, but the cold hard reality of our era is not going to comfort us with diplomacies and niceties, so honestly, why should I have to sugar coat anything? We live in extreme times and there is no longer room for prancing around the ultimate consequences of that which is taking place in America today. This country is increasingly sliding towards the edge of internal conflict. The Liberty Movement and true Constitutionalists see it, subsections of Republicans and Democrats see it, and most of all, the federal government sees it. In fact, they may even be counting on it...
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No, it will just trigger many more Wile E. Coyote moments for the Democrat Party.
Response: I doubt it. Americans are too disorganized, too apathetic and too pleasure mad.
Response: I doubt it. Americans are too disorganized, too apathetic and too pleasure mad.
No, rather it will most likely land up in the courts.
Fixed.
When they finally come marching in full cop regalia to your door and confiscate your guns. That is where this is going. What will you do?
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
When they finally come marching in full cop regalia to your door and confiscate your guns. That is where this is going. What will you do?
Your post brought this to mind: I moved to a small secluded farm in central KY from my longtime home of Seattle last year. I confess that the scariest scene I’ve seen in any movie is the opening scene in Inglorious Basterds. You really can’t hide, and our government is FAR more sophisticated than they were.
I wouldn't expect those who would do what needed to be done are stupid enough to post what it is they would do on a public forum.
DiFi was for conceal-carry (when her life was being threatened) before she was against it. Looks like the wind shifted.
With Predator Drones you can go to battle wearing pajamas in a nice warm room.
Did you know about the “Crocodile Dundee”? I suspect it’s one of the models gun grabbers will use in coming months.
When Australia decided to go the way of tyranny and force her law-abiding people to turn in their firearms, Mr. Rodney William Ansell (aka the real “Crocodile Dundee”) refused to comply with the tyranny. Australian police attempted to disarm him by force. A shoot-out occurred, and Mr. Ansell was killed along with an Australian policeman.
Here is his story, written by Vin Suprynowicz and originally published Sept. 19, 2006:
Rodney William Ansell a.k.a “Crocodile Dundee”
A few days ago, the Review-Journal – along with a lot of other metropolitan dailies – gave prominent coverage to the death of Steve Irwin, the popular Australian zookeeper who charmed international audiences with his enthusiastic animal-chasing on the Discovery Network’s Animal Planet channel.
Irwin, widely known as “the Crocodile Hunter,” was killed Monday by a stingray that rose and stabbed him in the chest with its spine while the 44-year-old was at work filming a television segment, swimming at Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
Irwin’s enthusiasm was infectious. His manner of death was certainly noteworthy. All doubtless sympathize with his wife and two young children.
Still, Irwin died doing what he loved. And without diminishing his memory or his family’s loss, perhaps we can draw a distinction between a death that is merely unfortunate and fascinating and one that is significant.
It could be an interesting exercise to compare the prominent coverage of Irwin’s death with the slim few paragraphs (at most) devoted by the America news media on or about Aug. 4, 1999, to the death of 44-year-old Rodney William Ansell. The 1988 Australian Northern Territory Man of the Year – so honored in part because he was widely acknowledged to be the real-life character on whom Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, and John Cornell based their movie character “Crocodile Dundee” – was killed in a shootout with police.
Yes, the circumstances surrounding Ansell’s death took a little more time to put together. The question is: Did anyone in the press ever bother, and if not, why not?
Ansell was just 21 when he became lost for two months in the bush west of Darwin. He’d been on a fishing trip near the mouth of the Victoria River, accompanied only by his two cattle dogs, when his boat was capsized and sunk, possibly by a whale. He managed to board his tender vessel, a small dinghy with only one oar, and retrieve his dogs and a small amount of equipment including his rifle, knives and bedding – but no fresh water.
Alone, far from any shipping lanes, Ansell traveled up the Fitzmaurice River over the next 72 hours, becoming severely dehydrated before finally finding fresh water above the tide line. He then managed to survive for two months by hunting and shooting cattle for food, before being rescued by a small party of drovers. (Presumably it wasn’t their cattle he’d been shooting, or our tale might be much shorter.)
Ansell, blond and bearing an uncanny resemblance to actor Paul Hogan, wrote a book and starred in a documentary about his exploits, both called “To Fight the Wild.” The story sparked the interest of actor Hogan and his co-writers, who scored a major hit with their 1986 film “Crocodile Dundee.”
Seven years ago, Ansell was killed in a shootout with police just south of Darwin. An Australian police sergeant also died. Why?
In a June 2000 essay, physician, author, and Cuban émigré Dr. Miguel Faria asks what was going on in Australia in the late 1990s that could help explain the timing of this famous Australian survivalist shooting it out with authorities:
“Although Ansell was no angel and had had previous run-ins with police, he had been named 1988 Australian Northern Territory Man of the Year for inspiring the movie and putting ‘the Australian Outback on the map,’” Dr. Faria notes.
“What motivated this shooting? In 1996, Australia adopted Draconian gun control laws banning certain guns (60 percent of all firearms), requiring registration of all firearms and licensing of all gun owners. ‘Crocodile Dundee’ believed the police were coming to confiscate his unregistered firearms.
“In Australia today, police can enter your house and search for guns, copy the hard drive of your computer, seize records, and do it all without a search warrant,” Dr. Faria reports. “It’s the law that police can go door to door searching for weapons that have not been surrendered in their much publicized gun buy-back program. They have been using previous registration and firearm license lists to check for lapses and confiscate non-surrendered firearms.”
It all began with the Port Arthur (a Tasmanian resort) tragedy on April 28, 1996, Dr. Faria recalls, “when a crazed assailant opened fire and shot 35 people. Australians were shocked, and the government reacted quickly.
“Draconian gun legislation was passed in the heat of the moment. … As a result of stringent gun laws (really a ban on firearms) in Australia, all semiautomatic firearms (rifles and handguns) are proscribed, including .22-caliber rabbit guns and duck-hunting Remington shotguns. …
“At a cost of $500 million, out of an estimated 7 million firearms (of which 2.8 million were prohibited), only 640,000 guns were surrendered to police. What has been the result? Same as in England. … Crime Down Under has escalated.
“Twelve months after the law was implemented in 1997, there had been a 44 percent increase in armed robberies, an 8.6 percent increase in aggravated assaults, and a 3.2 percent increase in homicides,” reports Dr. Faria, a retired Georgia neurosurgeon who wrote “Medical Warrior” and “Cuba in Revolution: Escape From a Lost Paradise,” and served until recently as editor-in-chief of “The Medical Sentinel,” the journal of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
“That same year in the state of Victoria, there was a 300 percent increase in homicides committed with firearms. The following year, robberies increased almost 60 percent in South Australia. …
“Two years after the ban, there have been further increases in crime: armed robberies by 73 percent; unarmed robberies by 28 percent; kidnappings by 38 percent … according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
“And consider the fact that over the previous 25-year period, Australia had shown a steady decrease both in homicide with firearms and armed robbery – until the ban. …
“The ban on firearms and the disarmament of ordinary Australians has left criminals free to roam the countryside as they please.
“Bandits, of course, kept their guns. … Yet the leftist Australian government has responded by passing more laws; in 1998 Bowie knives and other knives and items including handcuffs were banned.
“Licensing is difficult. Self and family protection is not considered a valid reason to own a firearm. The right to self-defense, like in Great Britain and Canada, is not recognized in Australia. … A way of life has ended. Please, don’t tell me it cannot happen here!”
Did the real-life Crocodile Dundee die because his own government left him with no choice but to “use his guns” – guns which had saved his life – “or lose them”?
If so, why did we hear so little about it? Because many in the press are loath to report the “bad outcomes” of victim disarmament? It certainly doesn’t seem to be because Americans don’t care about the fate of famous, good-looking Australian crocodile hunters.
Only if it passes and only if they try to enforce it...
SB:
Are not stupid enough...
The American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the Colonists.
Fitting that it ends with the Colonists demanding to be disarmed.
Why, I'll say, "What guns?"
They want a ‘5’ in gun control.
They go in asking for a ‘12’.
Soon the media, Rinos, and various other imbeciles start their blather about ‘compromise.’
Everyone gets into the act, and then next thing you know, many people are patting themselves on the back about how we only got stuck with a ‘5’ when they wanted a ‘12’. And “Oh by the way”, send us more money.
This pattern has happened so many times, I can almost predict it to the minute.
Lets just say it won't be a good time to be a cop. They do this crap at their own peril.
“Gee, I didn't know the person at the door was a cop...thought they were an intruder.”
Again, this will be bad time to be in law enforcement. Lawlessness begets lawlessness.
Remember: chaos only benefits a dictator when they can CONTROL the chaos. Doubt me? Ask Nicolae Ceausescu how that worked out for him.
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