[Altariel]

Full Title: An Open Letter to the Men and Women of the Connecticut State Police: You are NOT the enemy (UNLESS YOU CHOOSE TO BE.)

[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Wingy]

It’s getting warmer out there.

[MasterGunner01]

I have asked this question of several retired LEOs that I know. They, for reasons only known to themselves, have not answered. I have told them on many different occasions that I believe certain state and federal politicians are actively courting a civil war. Why, because they think they can win it. Wring, wrong, wrong.

All the crowned heads of Europe thought the same way in August of 1914 when the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie plunged all of Europe into World War I. Most of those responsible for the war were either out of power or dead four years later, along with 26 million other people.

The score in 1918 was: 1) Austro-Hungarian Empire gone and Hapsburg dynasty dethroned; 2) Ottoman Empire gone and a civil war brewing in Turkey; 2) Germany defeated and the Kaiser had abdicated the throne; 4) Russia wracked by civil war and the Tsar and Royal Family executed; 5) Italy bankrupted; 6) France bankruped and an entire generation of Frenchmen killed; 7) Britain lost the flower of its generation of young men and was bankrupted; 8) the might of the United States won the Great War, but America retreated into isolationism after war’s end.

The point is that all the best and brightest of the elite political class were predicting victory for their side and the boys would be home by Christmas of 1914. A great majority of those best and brightest souls were dead by Christmas 1918.

All our political best and brightest should remember that once the specter of civil war is loosed upon the land, all bets are off as to the victors. Death, suffering, and destruction are certain and no one can divine the outcome.

[Kickass Conservative]

Compliance with Tyranny is Treason...

[Billthedrill]

The law passed has created an estimated 350,000 armed felons in the state of Connecticut. Literally. These were law-abiding citizens before; now they are class D felons, for doing absolutely nothing. Before they could rest secure in their homes, at least insofar as the government of that state recognizes the 4th Amendment any better than the 2nd. Now they face five years' imprisonment. For doing absolutely nothing.

That works both ways, however. If the law enforcement officers of the state of Connecticut took an oath to support and defend the Constitution, then those who enforce this law are betrayers of that oath and by extension, traitors to their country. If that is an uncomfortable position for them to be in, I suggest that suddenly becoming a felon for doing nothing is far worse. This train is headed down a very bad piece of track and the brakemen are asleep.

[Daffynition]

I'd say the snake is rattling.

[nvscanman]

This is all hot air and wishful thinking unless and until
badgemonkeys start bleeding in meaningful numbers. Till
that happens they will look at recent history....the past
very few decades and see that the badge has ALWAYS given
them the power to do as ordered and to do as they like.

Until they are shown in no uncertain terms by the use of
force that they DO NOT GET TO EXERCISE THEIR POWER UNOPPOSED
then it will be business as usual meaning doors kicked in, dogs shot and family’s terrorized as usual.

[Tainan]

Too long.
Nobody is going to read that.

[NTHockey]

Does he really expect Roberts and company to rule the CT laws unconstitutional? Don’t get stuck on stupid.

What happens when Roberts and company uphold CT law? Do you fold your tent and obey the law? If so, save your money and comply now.

Or, if you really believe what you wrote, will you defy a law ruled constitutional. Be prepared for the outcome, whatever it may be.

[Prospero]

Not exactly the letter from Col. Travis, now, is it?

A legal brief is shorter and more to the point. It takes longer to write a shorter note, but unless it's boiled down to three, maybe four, brief paragraphs fuggetabouddit!

Is this about one man's "case," a stack of research on politicians, pop cultural ramblings and private language, or is this about the lately hyped Connecticut assault on the Bill of Rights?

I can already hear all the reasons for composing a Remonstrance written in an nearly incoherent manner, but there's a reason why the "the car of history" on the clock in the old House Chamber is on wheels.

The Passing Parade waits on no one. Wrap it up!

[piroque]

When there comes a time that you think "you need too bury your weapons ,it's time to dig them up."

[SunTzuWu]

Bookmark.

[Drango]

Way too long of a rant to read...Was there something he wanted to say?

[Adder]

Wordy.
Might have had more immediate impact if it was from a Connecticut citizen.

But well worth passing on...it IS getting hotter...couple more pushes ought to just about do it.

[Faith65]

bkmk

[PoloSec]

Things are warming up rapidly, this does cause me to think, while tyranny runs ramped, we could be in the generation that did nothing, three percent is awfully low, but it has been done before, as the letter pointed out.

The incidents of tyranny are slowly racking up, and talking about it is yet to accomplish anything, does that mean armed resistance is inevitable, maybe, but IMO 2014, is the last chance we have to take back, protect, preserve and restore the Constitution politically, with voting as corrupt as it is, the chances are indeed slim.

[Dead Corpse]

Somewhere, in the back of my head, a Viking is sharpening his axe...

III%

Not a warning. A promise.