Posted on 01/04/2010 3:42:57 AM PST by marktwain
The Otero Tea Party Patriots and the newly formed Alamogordo Second Amendment Task Force held an anti-Obama protest rally on Saturday in Alamogordo New Mexico.
The rally appeared to be more of a second amendment rights rally than an anti Obama rally. Several hundred people, many carrying rifles and handguns, attended the 2-hour event. There were no reported incidents of violence.
Leslie Feilner, who recently moved to Alamogordo from Alaska with her husband, said about the .454 Taurus Casull that she was carrying, "It's a bear gun. We've never had to use it."
Feilner's English Pointer had a 9mm strapped to his side and a sign that read, "Bring it on, Obama." Feilner told reporters, "I'm a Christian and a peace-loving person, but I enjoy the right to buy and carry them."
Ron Browne of Alamogordo, who attended the event, said, "You have the guns. Eventually, you'll have the hate, then someone will actually take it one step further and try to hurt the president." Browne commented further, "Hate has to start somewhere and grow. This is it, right here. You're looking at it."
Jim Kizer, of Alamogordo, carried his .444 Marlin rifle and .41 Smith and Wesson Magnum pistol to the event.
"I don't like what the Democrats are doing to our country," said Kizer. "I'm a Korean vet and I grew up in Alaska during World War II. I've fought Communists all my life, and now our government is being taken over by them. That's why I'm here." Kizer commented further, "I'm not trying to start a war . . . I just want to make a point."
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Did MSNBS catch any more tea party patriots who happen to be black and pass them off as bitter clinger whiteys with guns again?
And all the anti-Bush rallies of the past 8 years were so hate-less.
Liberals don't see themselves as threatening but they are, they don't understand that their attacks on liberty are seen almost in the same light as a physical attack.
A sincere and serious response: if violence becomes widespread, some of us will aim and fire, then weep while reloading, because being in that situation will mean we found no other way to preserve or restore our republic.
“Ron Browne missed the point, if the liberals would just stop messing around with our inalienable rights they wouldn’t be hated so much. Are we supposed to just sit back and take anything they want to do to us, and smile about it?”
Agreed. Have you ever read Boston’s Gun Bible? I like the part where he suggests sending your used targets (MOA or less) to your policiticans and “thanking” them for their support of our Bill of Rights....
It has worked that way for them the past 70+ years. Why would they expect things to change now?
From Dreams of My Father: ‘I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, thatI’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself: the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.’
And FINALLY,
From Audacity of Hope: ‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’
Naw there is no hatred there is there?
I believe it was CS Lewis who said something along the lines of “Given a choice between living under a malevolent dictator and a benevolent dictator, I choose the malevolent dictator because there is at least a chance he will be bothered by conscience.”
There is no question in the minds of liberals that they’re right and that its all for the greater good. This leaves them in a dangerous position of never having to consider the possibility that they’re wrong.
I once asked a lib if he had a problem with cops going door to door, busting in and shooting people to confiscate their guns. He told me that this would never happen. I guess many of them think people will just meekly surrender. I think a few will, only a few! The politicians must know this, and the anti 2nd amendment bunch must be willing to use whatever force it takes. This makes them a threat in my book.
I wonder if he's ever bothered to ponder the political leanings of history's Presidential assassins.
Thanks for the link. I lived in NM for 14 years. And traveled every other week to Alamogordo for several years.
I am sure some of my friends from Silver City were there. Several of them owned Class III stuff. And are hot on this issue.
Roswell residents (Little Texas) were obviously represented and that is understandable.
We're just not fighting back.
Yet.
“...they don’t understand that their attacks on liberty are seen almost in the same light as a physical attack.”
Their attacks on liberty are far more cowardly and far more evil and far more deadly than a physical attack on another person.
I sure this was the thoughts of the men and women who fought in the first CW. Killing and maiming your own countrymen was most likely a horrible proposition.
War has never been an enjoyable situation and it never will be.
Here’s the C.S. Lewis quote you are thinking of. It is a favorite of mine, as well. I should add it to the quotes on my FR profile page:
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
— C. S. Lewis
Thank you. Gotta save that one.
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