Keeping Faith With John Wayne: God, Guts And Guns

Glendale Cherry Creek chronicle ^ | July, 2010 | Peter Boyles

[dynachrome]

There are historians who have said the First Amendment only remains in place because of the Second Amendment. Because of the First Amendment, I am able to write this column and do my radio show. And you are able to write letters to the editor and call me a moron. But one of the nasty lessons of history is that not everywhere in the world and not in every place in history would you have the right to write a letter to the editor and call me a moron, or call the radio show and tell my boss that I’m a half-witted moron and that the radio show is a little weak between commercials.

Thomas Jefferson, as you know, was adamant about the First Amendment being the cornerstone of keeping the republic free. That of course includes your right to assemble and petition the government for any and all grievances. As you can see history is replete with examples of people losing their rights as free people and slipping into the darkness of the totalitarian regime, or in case of the transition between czarist Russia and Lenin’s Russia, the change was virtually seamless. In a number of the places in the world today, the state controls the media. Those are also nation states where the individual rarely, if ever, has access to a gun.

History also tells us that men revolt on their knees, not on their backs. When someone gets to his knees in an oppressive society, generally, in revolutionary situations, that man has a gun in his hand. Be it at Concord Bridge or Louie’s France, or Cromwell’s England or the IRA throwing off the yolk of the British, it’s done with guns.

[dynachrome]

Peter Boyles is the best local radio guy in Denver. 5-9 am MST weekdays.

http://www.khow.com/pages/boyles.html

[dynachrome]

Clickable link to his show:

http://www.khow.com/pages/boyles.html

(yolk, boyles? Spelchek won’t save ya there!)

[RoseofTexas]

When I see pictures of John Wayne and President Reagan it just tears me up...WHERE HAVE ALL the REAL men gone...:(

We need those type of men MORE than ever!

[dragnet2]

WHERE HAVE ALL the REAL men gone...:(

I would imagine the same place all the real women went.

[LaineyDee]

Oh.....THOSE men were too hot-headed and sexist... we had to reprogram the next generation to be more “sensitive” and civil. /s

[leapfrog0202]

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[OneWingedShark]

>FReeper leapfrog0202 will donate $10 on behalf of 15 people

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[leapfrog0202]

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[OneWingedShark]

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[OneWingedShark]

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[leapfrog0202]

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