Posted on 06/16/2016 8:13:52 AM PDT by dware
National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed by elements of a para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.
Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement. Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group's organizers as criminals, issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government's efforts to secure law and order. The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed widespread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault weapons.
Gage issued a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early this month between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms.
One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that none of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned over their weapons voluntarily. Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition.
However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from heavily armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the government's plans. During a tense standoff in Lexington's town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists. Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange.
Ironically, the local citizenry blamed government forces rather than the radical extremists for the civilian deaths. Before order could be restored, armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended upon the guard units. Colonel Smith, finding his forces over matched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat.
Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops.
Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as "ringleaders" of the extremist faction, remain at large.
And this, people, is how the American Revolution began on April 19, 1775.
( by Ed Schriber Col. USMC (Ret.)
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+1 - Love it!
I thought it was about ammo. Some things never change.
Redcoats weren't National Guard, they were mostly Irish and Scots with English officers.
1775 Concord: “The whole country was by this time alarmed. The minute men, volunteers and militia assembled from all quarters and posted themselves amongst trees in houses and behind walls along the road through which the British troops were to pass whilst the militia who had been engaged at the bridge reinforced with others hourly coming in from the country were ready to press upon their rear” - Stedman,pp.117-118=
“The History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War,” Stedman, C. 1794, Volume 1,
Many of those snipers were 60-70 year old veterans of the French and Indian War. My great-great great-great grandfather was 70 years old when he fought the British on Bunker Hill.
Great, I love it, Nopw how do we Get someone like Hannity or Rush to read this Straight as their Opening Monologue???
It will ABSOLUTELY DRIVE THE LEFT WILD if it were to happen.
That’s how the history would have been written if the revolutionaries lost the war. The war was not popular with the public, either.
Some will refuse, and they will be dealt with, harshly. Most will follow orders.
The US Supreme Court case, Miller, agrees. However, the Miller case has been misconstrued by every court that took it up, including the Heller court. Another case that has NEVER, not one time, been cited for what it says, rather has been cited for the opposite of what it says, is Presser.
I think you have far more knowledge of SC and precedent issues than I. But to a truly lay person, I think these decisions are really messed up too.
“... military-style assault weapons...”
Now, they’re called *guns of war* ...my pRESIDENT told me so.
The military will indeed do the governments will. Risk their Tricare and BAH? Ha!
Cute. I think I’ve seen this before around here, but timely, nonetheless.
You must know the Mother In Law I once had to deal with. I have absolutely no doubt that if any type of ‘official’ order (or decree) went out that we had to surrender our firearms then she would be cheerleading it and no doubt one of the first to suggest to officials that I might have somethings they would dearly love to know about.
Oh, no, never trust the Mother In Law!
Yes, it’s been done on a semi-regular basis several times over the years. I suppose it’s kind of old hat to some here having read this manner of thing more than a few times, but perhaps there are some new FReepers that never considered it so most of us just kind of let it go because of that.
Hope it inspires some.
It's been out since 2014, so I wouldn't be surprised if it had been posted previously. I did do a search, but didn't find anything. You're right - it's absolutely timely...
Righto, wasn’t meant as a criticism, hope you didn’t take it that way, more like a hey, I remember this - and I like it! :)
And this, people, is how the American Revolution began on April 19, 1775
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Excellent!!!!!
However...If the Indians who stood on the shore ‘greeting the new arrivals’ had exercised proper control of their borders, the Rev War etal would probably not have taken place.
‘They’ say history repeats itself and if you wait long enough, it will come back to haunt you.
When Will WE protect our shores or do we wait until we are completely overwhelmed and sent off to ‘reservations’ in the most remote part of the country and have to wait a couple of hundred years for someone to help us set up our own laws and gradually pick at our one time conquerers and join forces with the later invaders to take on what is now the establishment....
Coming soon to a theater near you....
Not in the slightest! With as good as this is, I was entirely surprised I didn't come across it here before. Lol
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