Nevada's Battle Of The Presidents [BBC News Goes Blank on DC Freedom March!]

BBC News ^ | September 12, 2009

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Nevada's Battle Of The Presidents

Stephen Evans

Barack Obama faces considerable opposition to his plans for healthcare reform, not least from a man in Las Vegas, who is recruiting Thomas Jefferson in his opposition to the US president's plans.

Mr Parshall fears the US is becoming socialist under President Obama Glen Parshall is a great bear of a man who could make a pretty good living as a Santa Claus in any Christmas grotto.

Except, that is, for the armoury of hundreds of guns with which he is surrounded and which he fondles with gentle care.

Glen Parshall, you see, is a pawn-broker in Las Vegas who specialises in guns. He takes them in return for a loan, and sells those he keeps when the loans are not repaid. Business, he tells me, is very good at the moment because high unemployment means more crime and so more people wanting to protect themselves by carrying a gun. And high unemployment also means more desperate people depositing their weapons in return for his four-month loans at 10% interest a month.

'Tree of Liberty' Mr Parshall, though, is not just a businessman for whom the recession is a boon. He is also one of the out-riders for libertarians who believe that America under Obama is turning into a socialist state.

Jefferson wrote about the 'Tree of Liberty' in a letter to William S Smith I do not exaggerate. "We've got someone who is an out-and-out Marxist, a total socialist, who is trying to put everything under government control," Mr Parshall told me. "There's a lot of people that are rising up," he says. He and other self-described "free-thinkers" make much of Thomas Jefferson's statement: "The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

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The neo-socialist elite cannot be bothered we the help.