Posted on 06/09/2016 8:30:35 AM PDT by B4Ranch
So you are a 60-something retired couple who has gone to a political rally to support your presidential candidate.
The opposition has sent in their operatives to try and disrupt the meeting. If they cannot affect a disturbance inside the actual campaign hall, they lie in wait outside to confront the individual supporters as they attempt to leave in peace.
Confront, provoke, damage and record, this is the tactics of the left.
This was the tactics used by the Kremlin supported violent protests during the Vietnam War. This was the tactics of the “Brown Shirt” fascists of 1930s Europe. This is nothing new, only a better world-wide video audience.
If people are harassed or worse yet hurt during the planned and orchestrated verbal assault that turns physical, so what, it is good video footage that will be uploaded on line that day.
After being afraid for your safety and your spouse’s safety you make it to what you believe is the sanctuary of your vehicle with plans to get out of the area post haste and home to security. As you open the car door for your spouse you see the gang of political thugs headed your way, and no friendly members of your political party there to help, and no police.
You left your concealed carry handgun in your vehicle when you went into the rally hall, but now you have it on your person as you attempt to get into the driver’s side of the vehicle.
After shouting insults and threats of violence, attempts are made by the thugs to get their hands on you. You knock one away with the car door and proceed to get inside the vehicle, but not before they grab the door and try to enter by force. You pull your handgun in defense and dispatch the one trying to violently enter your car with a knife in his hand. The first thing you hear after the noise of the pistol going off subsides is one of the thugs loudly complaining “he has a gun that has to be illegal, that’s not fair.” Then two more thugs try to drag your spouse out of her side of the vehicle. There is no time to think, they are going to gravely harm you or even kill you, so you dispatch the two who have their hands on your wife. They go down and do not rise.
The thugs momentarily retreat so you close and lock the car doors. This is not over. The rear passenger side window is smashed out and the thugs are trying to unlock the car door and get inside. You shoot two more. At this point you locate the extra magazines for your handgun. The fools are dying and too stupid to back off.
They surround you and start rocking the vehicle. You know if they get your car on its side you will lose this fight. You start the car, put it in gear and rev the engine to let the fools know you mean to drive away and they need to clear off for their own safety. When they do not retreat you put the car in drive and plow the road. As you drive away you hear through the broken out window, “he can’t hit us with his car that is illegal, someone call 911.”
As you drive away you pass your handgun to your spouse and instruct her to reload, “This may not be over” you say.
You drive a couple of blocks and pull to the side to retrieve from your trunk a pump shotgun, an extra handgun for the wife, and a go-bag of ammo. It is not hard to trace a license plate that will allow the bad guys to find your home and be waiting for you. Or they have operatives in vehicles set up before hand to follow and harass under a non-shooting scenario, why would they not follow you after you violently defend yourself from their crimes?
You have just made international news. The liberal press will brand you a violent, right wing extremist killer who illegally used the 2nd amendment to do bodily harm to some, simply over active citizens who wished to express their side of the on-going presidential campaign debate. You debated them with gun violence when all they wanted to do was debate you in large violent groups only using their fists and foreign flag staffs.
Trump Will Be Dead
In the past the right has always been expected to play by the rules and never respond in kind with reactive defensive violence, to physical threats and assaults from the good folks on the left.
Beware the 2016 presidential campaign will be different. There are good folks on the right who are tired of turning the other cheek, especially if the cheek that has been assaulted belongs to their spouse or child.
I am an old man, but as a soldier and a policeman in my younger years I have seen my share of violence. I do not care to yet again be confronted by that part of society’s social interaction.
To this day when I am involved with new young police officers I remind them of my first rule of interaction with the public, “everyone lies.” The bad people lie, the political thugs lie, even the good people lie when scared or hurt and afraid of more violence and pain.
Do not expect anyone to tell the truth after you are forced to defend yourself.
If you however fail to defend your family when it is all over “they” will still lie about you as you lay in the street bleeding on to the concrete. You do not want to look over and see your spouse bleeding-out into the street next to you.
Everyone will have their phones out videoing you as you try to hold on to life and no one will call 911 with the truth.
Major Van Harl USAF Ret. / vanharl@aol.com
About Major Van Harl USAF Ret.:Major Van E. Harl USAF Ret., a career Police Officer in the U.S. Air Force was born in Burlington, Iowa, USA, in 1955. He was the Deputy Chief of police at two Air Force Bases and the Commander of Law Enforcement Operations at another. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Infantry School. A retired Colorado Ranger and currently is an Auxiliary Police Officer with the Cudahy PD in Milwaukee County, WI. His efforts now are directed at church campus safely and security training. He believes “evil hates organization.” vanharl@aol.com
It happened in the LA riots as well.
I have a lot of pent up road rage and that sounds good to me.
As a Christian, I try to treat others as I wish to be treated.
But as for the turn the other cheek business, when somebody starts pummeling me, I tend to do unto the other guy as I am being done to.
Just sayin’.
Not worth taking over. Just build a wall, cut off the money being sent to Mexico and let them do themselves in. We don’t want responsibility for that basket case.
YUP!
"Serve and Protect" their paychecks and pensions.
Forty plus years (at least) of the "Us against Them" mentality is slowly coming to its inevitable conclusion.
The taxpayers (Them) did NOT want it to come to this, but the actions/inactions of the police (Us) leave no alternative.
Thanks for the info.
Indeed. We might have to once again before it's all over, as the price of relieving revolutionary "pressure" in support of their ruling oligarchs in Mexico's true Valley for so many, many decades.
I would prefer any future war with Mexico serve to unite our nation, rather than divide us.
But, dreams of an "Aztlan" are based on sheer fantasy, as anyone who has studied the history of our Southwest objectively can tell you.
We don't just need to build a "wall," or an electronic frontier, or whatever. We will likely have to prove willing to defend our borders and fight a regional war inside our borders, perhaps in the streets of LA, before such a project is half completed.
No don’t take it over; you would just be inheriting their problems, “nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure”.
During my training in the Corps we were told (ordered) that there is no such thing as a warning shot.
If you are going to shoot, you had better destroy the target.
“I would prefer any future war with Mexico serve to unite our nation, rather than divide us.”
Totally agree. No one can live forever with an enemy at the gates. We need to secure the place for Mexicans from the corrupts regimes.
I suspect this is want certain people in authority want to happen. Then 0bama will declare a general state of emergency and cancel the election.
Just as no house can stand divided against itself. If our nation is not careful, we'll end up like Paris in 1871.
Or we could play Prussia's part in that awful play. Neither is a pleasant prospect, but acting as a relief pressure valve for Mexico's internal corruption has only served to delay the revolutionary forces down there that must inevitably correct that corruption, and it has served to corrupt ourselves.
Mrs. Clinton is a silly tool of the technocrats in Brussels and at State, at Foggy Bottom.
We are precariously situated upon a powder keg.
Ping!
My Jeep Rubicon comes stock with skid plates. Nothing I can't fix with a hose once I get home :-)
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