Joni Ernst and the Right To Revolutionary Violence

Washington Monthy's Political Animal Blog ^ | October 23, 2014 | Ed Kilgore

[2ndDivisionVet]

[wastoute]

We shall see how his tune changes when there is flying lead in the air...

[Steve_Seattle]

Hey, Ed, remember the New Left, the petri dish of modern liberalism? It seems to me that they had a few revolutionary slogans as well: “Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun” . . . “Up against the wall, MF” . . . “Off the pigs (police)” . . . Ho ho ho Chi Minh”. Yep, Ed, and more than a few of those people are now Democratic office holders, college profs, and so forth.

[TADSLOS]

If push comes to shove, they’re heavily armed, and bullets outweigh ballots. It’s a reminder that if politics fails in protecting their very broad notion of their “rights,” then revolutionary violence—which after all, made this great country possible in the first place—is always an option. And if that sounds “anti-democratic,” well, as the John Birch Society has always maintained, this is a Republic, not a democracy.

Alinsky would be proud.

[FreedomPoster]

Both is a distinct possibility that “or” excludes.

[Fred Hayek]

Well let’s read what one Minnesota liberal aid about the Second Amendment:

“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used, and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible”

That was Hubert Humphrey back in 1960. Yet the tyranny that seemed remote in 1960 is at our doorstep now. Old Hubert accurately saw that possibility.
Of course Old Hubert would not be welcome in today’s Dem Party.

[Fred Hayek]

You beat me to it!