Posted on 04/29/2015 12:45:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The thing that always irks me about their "water the tree of liberty" types is their sheer stupidity. Seriously, you think you and your buddies are going to play Red Dawn against the full might of the U.S. government? Where do you suppose all that defense budget money went, folks?
And now we have Ted Cruz, egging them on. Dear sweet Jesus, this man has no conscience. Via Talking Points Memo:
WASHINGTON — It's a given that every Republican presidential candidate will run for president as a strong supporter of gun rights.
But Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is arguing that the Second Amendment includes a right to revolt against government tyranny, a point of emphasis uncommon for mainstream presidential candidates.
"The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution isn't for just protecting hunting rights, and it's not only to safeguard your right to target practice. It is a Constitutional right to protect your children, your family, your home, our lives, and to serve as the ultimate check against governmental tyranny -- for the protection of liberty," Cruz wrote to supporters in a fundraising email on Thursday, under the subject line "2nd Amendment against tyranny."
This "insurrectionist" argument, as Second Amendment expert and UCLA law professor Adam Winkler calls it, is popular among passionate gun owners and members of the National Rifle Association. But major party candidates for president don't often venture there.
"Most presidential candidates who support Second Amendment rights focus on self defense. In the past many have also emphasized hunting," said Winkler, author of the 2011 book Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America. "It's pretty rare for a presidential candidate to support the right of the people to revolt against the government."
Nor has the Supreme Court recognized a Second Amendment right to revolt against the government, Winkler said. In the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, the Court established an individual's right to possess a gun for lawful purposes like self-defense.
Fiery rhetoric is a trademark for Cruz, who is battling to win over Republican voters in a crowded primary field where he has trailed Jeb Bush, a former Florida governor, and Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, so far in early polls.
Cruz declared that he's "the only candidate running for President who not only believes in the Constitutional right to keep and bear arms -- but has the record of fighting for it, tooth and nail."
You have been noticing the purges?
“The ultimate authority … resides in the people alone. [T]he advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation … forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any.” —James Madison (1788)This quote was included in today's Patriot Post email.
Suzie, do you want the USAF to drop a laser guided bomb on your neighbors house? How about an artillery barrage into downtown?
Ted answered the hand-wringing liberals on this. He simply deferred to what the founding fathers thought about an armed populace and government tyranny.
Also, the federal government is prohibited by law from using the military against civilians by the Posse Comitatus Act. The National Guard is your neighbors and your friends. They aren’t going to take up arms for the government. The local police want to go home at night to their families.
Must be little Susie was no where near the “hood” in Baltimore on Monday? Most likely hidden behind some H.O.A. gated commune, guarded by “well armed” security.
+1.....making a list and checking it twice.
>>The thing that always irks me about their “water the tree of liberty” types is their sheer stupidity. Seriously, you think you and your buddies are going to play Red Dawn against the full might of the U.S. government? Where do you suppose all that defense budget money went, folks?
The citizens outnumber the military + law enforcement by about 100 to 1 (and that assumes that everyone in uniform fights for the gummint, which is unlikely).
Most of the defense budget can’t really be used to put down insurrection because the gummint doesn’t want to destroy the infrastructure. (They need a functional economy during and after the rebellion to pay those troops.)
Those people who “play Red Dawn” can do pretty well. Just look at every guerrilla war that we’ve ever fought in.
Cruz is rocking it!
>>For example, leftie journos and other tyranny enablers may want to take a different route to work each day... just sayin’.
Shhh. Let em gather at Starbucks and the Apple Store like they always do.
Can I spot a Sexually Deprived ignorant female or what.
HOLY SHINOLA!
The left has figured out how to enrich and weaponize UGLY!
That there is overwhelming force shock and awe UGLY.
“The thing that always irks me about their “water the tree of liberty” types is their sheer stupidity. Seriously, you think you and your buddies are going to play Red Dawn against the full might of the U.S. government?”
The thing that irks me about pants-wetting government worshipers is that they seem to conveniently forget how much difficulty the U.S. military has had fighting unconventional forces over the last century. Do they really think that only Vietnamese farmers and Iraqi truck drivers are able to successfully conduct a guerrilla war on their home turf?
Say no more.
The unarmed man is but a slave to an armed government.
Tet68 said that.
I have understood the founding father’s reasoning for withholding the vote from women since all three of my sisters voted for Bill Clinton based simply on his looks. And I am a woman too.
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