FReepers won't be alone. 3%, Oathkeepers, Alarm and Muster, Minutemen, and dozens of other like minded groups are all there as well.
Yes. It probably will be someone doing something stupid that start the whole avalanche. This should not deter us from doing what needs doing.
Freedom and our Republic is worth it. Every bit as much now as it was back in the 1700's.
That's what happened in 1775.Though under orders to "take care that the soldiers do not plunder the inhabitants or hurt private property", things didn't go down that way. No one knows to this day who fired the first shot at Lexington Green. In ensuring exchange eight Americans were dead from musket shot and bayonet wounds, and 10 more were wounded. The Redcoats, under Major Pitcairn of the Royal Marines and Lt. Col. Smith, then proceeded to Concord, their actual target.
There they captured stores, including food, tents, musket balls and the carriages of the 3 cannon that were their principle target. They proceeded to burn what would burn, and throw the rest in the mill pond. But... they caught the local meeting house on fire. The American Militia, on the far side of the North Bridge, saw the smoke and thought the Redcoats were going to burn the town down (in reality they put out the fire). Colonel Barrett of the militia had ordered the militia not to fire till the Regulars fired first, then to fire as fast as they could. But when it was feared the Regulars were buring the town, the militia advanced on the bridge and the Redcoat "bridge guard" then fired upon them. That set the whole thing off, the militia routed the regulars, with reinforcements coming from towns all over the area, and sent them back down the battle road. If not for Redcoat reinforcements, with cannon, arriving back at Lexington just about the time the fleeing Regulars got there, and probaly even if only the Regulars' reinforcements had not brought a few cannon, likely no Regular would have made it back to Boston, at least as part of any organized formation. As it was, even with the cannon, the Regulars were forced to retreat down that long battle road to Boston.
So even though both sides desired there be no fighting, fighting there was, and here we are today because of it.