[wbill]

They also had pickup trucks with conservative stickers on them. Don't forget that!

The "journalist" that wrote this article likely doesn't know a rifle from a hole in the ground.

If *I* was doing the writing...I'd be more worried about the guy who was picked up on drug charges, and all of the grenade/bomb making equipment. The guns, ammo, and the bumperstickers are legal!

[Jason_b]

"They also had pickup trucks with conservative stickers on them. Don't forget that!"

Conservative Stickers!!!??? Ohhhh Nooooo!

Seriously. Let's clarify what "anti-government" means to the government. It means this: The Magna Charta, The Constitution and Bill of Rights, The English Common Law, the Repubic, Representation in Congress, Federalism, the Bible, Christianity, that is all out the window. Your new aspiring Socialist masters are getting you ready for an authoritarian form of government in which all the rules will be made by an oligarchy of elites (probably from overseas) and the economy centrally planned complete with a state religion. It is by THIS government's frame of reference that you/we are "anti-government." In reality these groups are PRO-GOVERNMENT that is to say, pro-constitutional republic with federalism with common law government. Anytime the government calls a group anti-government they should be swiftly and sharply corrected that the group is anti-socialist-government but pro-constitutional-government.

Let's define this struggle as what it really is. A struggle between transplanted European Socialism and American Classical Liberalism for control of the government at all levels from Federal to Local. This is Civil War I happening here and now. It is so far a "cold war." 1862-1865 was just an attempt to cecede and hence not a real civil war by the proper definition.

I wish we could have been as concerned as the nation turned socialist as we are about the imposition of sharia. It is no less damaging. Just as it has been slow for us to awaken to the fact that, hey, we are at war with Islam, so we have been slow to recognize we are at war with Socialism, or at least they have been at war with us.

Because the nation is turning Socialist (the process is almost complete), that will probably make it easier for the islamists to impose sharia at some future date.

Setting aside the threat of sharia for a moment, and focusing on this CWI, I don't want to live in a totally socialist country any more than I want to live under sharia, because face it, either way, freedom will be a footnote. And I don't see all that much difference between being a dhimmi, or a "comrade" in a socialist society with a planned economy and no private property.