Sunday, March 30, 2003 1:00:09 AM · by SAMWolf · 48 replies · 10,297+ views
http://www.islandnet.com/~citizenx/bonus.html ^ | Brian R. Train
Posted on 06/27/2009 3:59:33 AM PDT by don-o
love that picture
out!
standing!
I was thinking the exact same thing today - enough about world upheaval, enough about taxing us back into the stone age, enough about global warming lunacy, enough about our constitutional rights, let’s hear more about Wacko Jacko!
The government has rolled tanks on protestors before, but I can’t remember what the name of the situation was.
A bunch of military veterans were camped in DC protesting a pay irregularity and if I recall correctly, they were threatened with deadly force by the active duty military. Can a freeper help me out here?
It was in the 1950s, I think.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2280680/posts?page=1
Natan Sharansky op ed. Good read.
Yes, THANK YOU! The bonus army!
for the first time in my life, I feel fear of my own government and president—a brand new emotion that I still don’t know how to handle. Thinking about tyranny has heretofore been strictly a theoretical exercise.
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I know exactly what you mean. You know what that if we fear our government, we have already submitted to tyranny. They are supposed to fear us.
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
You are absolutely right. The founders wanted the least government possible, and even then beholden to the people. They understood human nature very well and recognized the danger of the base human desire to tyrannize and dominate others.
Yeah, I was going to say - I don’t hunt much with my SKS....
oh no. We’ve now entered Tiananmen Square territory. :-(
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
I broke down last night and went to twitter.com to see what all the hubub was about. I looked up a local newscaster who's always inviting me to "follow her day" at twitter. Wow, what a joke. Seriously, what is this good for? The majority of the newscaster's messages are cryptic and obviously meant for an inner circle; the rest are along the lines of, "go outside and look at the beautiful sunset!!!!". I looked around at some other twitter accounts--same thing. I asked my wife if I'm missing something (she's a little more plugged in on things like this) and she didn't get it either. Perhaps the only people that get it are the "Look at me!" generation of reality show wannabes...? Either that or twitter has the best marketeers on the planet. Probably some from both columns.
I feel like Foghorn Leghorn talking to you guys...Is this stuff going way over your head, you gotta reach for it???
Most of the people in the US are Democrats...Most of the hunters are Democrats...Most of the Democrats don't give a flip about the 2nd Amendment as long as they can go kill some animal...
In our war of Independence, about 15% of the people got involved in fighting the British...
For you guys to think all of the gun owners in America would rise up to defend this country in the face of tyranny is ludicrous...
Legs, thanks so much for remembering and don-o thanks so much for finding the history. I had never heard of this.
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