[appleseed]

the Boston Massacre and the heavy hand of the British government had turned many of the colonials against His Majesty’s rulers.

California vote against taxes. Same thing happening in Indiana. Tea parties all across the country. We have had enough of government intrusion in our lives. It is time for government to back off or face the rath of the people. This is it folks, either they back off or history repeats itself.

[Gay State Conservative]

Say what you wish about the North Andover of the past but today it's just another nest of red diaper baby,trust funded Maoists.

[2banana]

And now we are just a bunch of groveling socialists - trying to get something for nothing from the government...

[appleseed]

Self Reliant/Survivalist ping list

[NonValueAdded]

Rev War ping. God Bless them for their gift to us and my apologies for what we’ve done with it.

[Texas Fossil]

I don’t know anything about the citizens of Andover today.

But I know many veterans who are 60, 70, 80+ years old who would step forward now. And would still be effective.

And a lot of younger patriotic Americans.

Approaching the 4th of July, I expect to see some of that sentiment expressed, in spite of the MSM.

It is almost time.

[Texas Fossil]

Adversity employs great talents; prosperity renders them useless and carries the inept, the corrupted wealthy and the wicked to the top

May they bear in mind that virtue often contains the seeds of tyranny

May they bear in mind that it is neither gold nor even a multitude of arms that sustains a state but its morals

May each of them keep in his house, in a corner of this field, next to his workbench, next to his plow, his gun, his sword, and his bayonet

May they all be soldiers

May they bear in mind that in circumstances where deliberation is possible, the advice of old men is good but that in moments of crisis youth is generally better informed that its elders

Denis Diderot

Apostrophe to the Insurgents, 1782

[Jabba the Nutt]

We're not Europeans, we're Americans. We've never had a tradition of collectivism. In Europe, both the conservatives and social democrats have been Statists. The Liberals (Free Markets, Free Minds folks) have been small minorities for a centurty.

Here, we have the tradition of rebellion against overweening government: Bacon's Rebellion 1676, the American Revolution 1776, Andrew Jackson 1828, Texas Independence 1836, the Confederacy 1861 and Ronald Reagan 1980.

Who knows who's going to rise in the new era of rebellion? We have the tradition of individual sovereignty. Americans are only going to put up with this crap for so long.

[William Tell]

From the article: "... the heavy hand of the British government ..."

It's good for our people to learn more of the details of our nation's founding.

But one detail needs clarification. The "British government" was the legitimate government of the day. It was not a foreign government.

One of the early slogans was "No taxation without representation!". Had Parliament and the King granted representation to the colonies, one of the major indignities would have been removed, and the colonial representatives in a later Parliament may well have been able to positively influence the course of events.

What I am pointing out is that the colonists were rebelling against THEIR OWN government and took up arms against THEIR OWN army. Our Founders, had the war been lost, would have been hanged for TREASON.

One major reason for the Second Amendment was to ensure that the people would always have arms in no way inferior to those controlled by the government.