William Dawes
Posted on 09/02/2009 6:18:11 PM PDT by SJackson
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And what sin, what transgression did the British commit to bring on armed conflict? They had come for their guns. Their own government had come to disarm them. The first battles of the Revolutionary War were fought over...gun control. It is, I believe, the first and only revolution in history borne of a government's attempt to remove weapons from its citizenry.
There is one nagging question, though: History has long asked how the colonists knew the British were coming. There was good intelligence that let us know they were on their way and what they were coming for, and there's a fair amount of evidence that the colonists were tipped off by a woman, none other than General Thomas Gage's New Jersey-born wife, Margaret Kemble Gage, who sympathized with the Colonial cause. But, did she really? We don't know.
However, even Gage himself suspected her and packed her off to England to spare himself embarrassment. After the war was won, the Founding Fathers never divulged the source of their intelligence even though whoever was responsible should have been hailed a hero...or heroine. What more plausible reason for their silence than to protect the woman who now had to live in Britain. What better way to protect the woman to whom we are all indebted?
Today, Americans have almost no memory of her. But, without her, it's likely there would have been no Paul Revere's ride, no Second Amendment, and the Patriots may have been unarmed at the Battle of Bunker Hill. If George Washington can be called the "Father of Our Country," perhaps General Gage's wife, Margaret, the wife of the man our Founding Fathers so roundly hated, should rightfully be called the "Mother of Our Country."
Today, Americans fearing confiscation are burying guns to hide them from...their government.
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FIREARMS REFRESHER COURSE
1. “Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.” ~~~Thomas Jefferson
2. Those who trade liberty for security have neither. ~~~JohnAdams
3. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
4. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject
5. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
6. Gun control is not about guns; it’s about control.
7. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.
8. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
9. You don’t shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
10. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
11. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
12. The United States Constitution (c) 1791. All Rights Reserved.
13. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.
14. What part of ‘shall not be infringed’ do you NOT understand?
15. Guns have only two enemies; rust and politicians.
16.When you remove the people’s right to bear arms, you create slaves.
17. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.
#1 appears to be spurious as applied to Jefferson.
http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Those_who_hammer_their_guns_into_plows
#2 looks like a paraphrase of a famous Franklin quote.
Its all good...
I think I have seen each one at least once on a vehicle somewhere.....
Maybe she was another Michelle Bachmann or Sarah Palin.
New Jersey must have been beautiful back then and not a liberal corrupt toilet.
***There is one nagging question, though: History has long asked how the colonists knew the British were coming.***
Remember the poem?
“One if by land,
Two if by sea”
Two lanterns were then hung in the tower warning that the British were on their way by sea. Paul Revere, and others, made their famous rides, and the colonists were ready for the British to come by sea.
The British didn’t.
They came by land.
What we had the’ah, was a falure com comun’cate! Maybe false info was given out.
The colonists still were ready, battles were fought and the war was on!
Probably, NJ was less than a century from their status as new Sweden, plenty of Swedish girls were still around.
Oh man what happened! Mutations from all the chemical dumps.
New Jersey devolved since then. Must have been very nice then though Gen Gage was already into gun banning. Thank God for his wife.
I have been to Sverige about a decade + and the women are pretty hot. Part of the reason was eugenics.
The British Army was looking for weapons stores, and they knew they would find them in Concord. It just happened that the dust-up with the farmers in Lexington slowed them down a bit.
Oh, and by the way, it wasn't Paul Revere who made it to Concord to warn them that the Regulars were coming. He'd been stopped, before Lexington, I think, and ironically, because he had listened to his wife, and wasn't wearing his pistol, the British soldiers who stopped him, didn't arrest him. He was held for a couple of hours, but let go, at which time, he rode north to alert the Minutemen in Bedford. It was another man who'd been riding with Revere, who made it on to Concord, where they did arm themselves, and waited for the Regulars.
By the rude bridge
That arched the flood,
Their flag to natures breeze unfurled,
There the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot
Heard round the world.
William Dawes
Guess again.
You have likely confused Sweden as a country with Nazi Germany, or Maragret Sanger's Harlem Clinic c. 1929. and The American Birth Control League. (precursor organization to Planned Parenthood) “was established for the benefit of the colored people,” Sanger wrote in a letter to Dr. W. E. B. duBois.
"Before eugenicists and others who are laboring for racial betterment can succeed, they must first clear the way for birth control. Like the advocates for birth control, the eugenicists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit."
Sanger, Birth Control and Racial Betterment, 1919
Eugenics "Is the study of the Agencies under social control, that improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally."
Sir Francis Galton (cousin of Darwin, coined the term, "eugenics" in 1904"
Isolation of a group of people will over time tend to define characteristics for which they become known.
Eugenics has nothing to do with the fact that many women of Scandinavian origin are found to be physically attractive.
My vote for unsung colonial heroine is the woman who threw down her still warm woolen underwear to Revere to muffle the oars as he and his crew (Joshua Bentley and Thomas Richardson) was not expecting HMS Somerset to be in their path.
Read David Hackett Fischer's "Paul Revere's Ride" ISBN 0195088476
One of the reason British girls can be very pretty is Nordic influence. BTW - Czech girls “ain’t” too bad either.
It is no secret than N European countries sterilized some less desireable young people.
Yep, they were ready and waiting!
I didn’t learn about that until 2001, when our kids were homeschooling, and we went on a field trip to the Battle Road, from Lexington to Concord. It was a great presentation, and we all learned a lot from it!
As did eugenicists in the States too.
Following through on Sanger's "Negro Project" (1939) theses:
"The future program [of Planned Parenthood] should center around more education in the field through the work of a professional Negro worker, because those of us who believe that the benefits of Planned Parenthood as a vital key to the elimination of human waste must reach the entire population."
---- Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, “Planned Parenthood as a Public Health For the Negro Race,” BCFA Annual Meeting, 29 January 1942
And if this is attempted now, we won’t be standing there with muskets. We’ll be standing there with our AR’s. Which is the main reason why the leftist hate “assault rifles” the most. They are not “assault rifles”, they are militia rifles, homeland defense rifles, freedom rifles etc...
Thank you soooooo much. I just made an email from this article and SandRat’s post. It’s out there and I hope millions see it.
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