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.)
btt
Nice, nice post. Thanks.
Patriot Bump!
Excellent! Thanks for posting.
It is and makes one ponder how things might have changed since then. For instance ‘local civilians’ and military are no longer equally armed or trained. We’ve given those rights up in the name of ‘reasonable’. We allow all manner of surveillance, some very intrusive in the name of safety. Im sure you can think of other examples.
Lexington was about gun control, cleverly written.
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Those who don’t learn from their history are doomed to repeat it....
The good General ordered 700 of his Redcoats to “Be good Chaps,” and remove the Colonists’ pesky
firearms and ammunition from Lexington. But, the colonists had already removed them to safe keeping.
King George III paid the price on the road back to Concord when his gun confiscstors were met by 3,000 Americans firing on them from the roadside trees. The final price was paid at Yorktown.
God Bless!
“From my cold, dead hands!!” - Charlton Heston
This time, I doubt the military will fire on citizens, afterall, the military are also patriots.
I suspect a bloodless coup with the military putting Obama under house arrest.
Road from Concord, to Boston.
Don’t ever trust the MIL totally.
The Founders were very concerned about it, for good reason. They become dangerously beholden to one person, or at least take their oath very seriously and can easily be used by the people who officially direct them.
Libs “loathe” the MIL - until THEY control what they do. Such is the way of communists and all tyrants.
10 years ago you would have been correct Now the military is obamas homosexual transgendered women in combat social experiment The real patriots are quitting in droves The Obama engineered military would joyfully fire on right wing bigots and obstructionists
-PJ
Bump.
I admit I knew where this was going before I opened it and admire how well it was written.
Teday every time I read or hear a comment from some asshat about one does not need an AR or high cap pistol magazine for hunting I want to scream. There is not one word in the entire constitution, especially 2A, where hunting was even a mention.
The NFA of 1934 IMO was beyond the scope of what was OK under 2A. Look for some major BS to come from this pissadent and his matress on their backs GOPes.
The founders were on the ball. They knew that a standing army under the control of the CiC could be dangerous so they planned for a citizen force, militia, to counter them. Of course that was in the day when they were pretty much equally armed. Today, there is no actual counter force as the Military has overwhelming firepower. Worse, since our elected officials don’s seem to care what the voters think, there is no check on what has become an oppressive federal government in general and an executive branch in particular.
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