Revolution? Line in the Sand Drawn

Right Side news ^ | 11 January 2013 | Chuck Baldwin

[arthurus]

On April 19, 1775, British troops, some 800 strong, were dispatched to Concord, Massachusetts, to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock and to seize a cache of weapons known to be stored at Concord. When Dr. Joseph Warren sent Paul Revere to warn Pastor Jonas Clark (in whose home Adams and Hancock were staying) that the Crown's troops were on their way to arrest the two men and seize the guns at Concord, he alerted his male congregants. About 60-70 men from the Church of Lexington stood armed on Lexington Green awaiting the Red Coats.

Upon spotting the citizen militia, a British officer demanded the men throw down their arms. They refused; and the British troops immediately opened fire. Eight of the Minutemen were instantly killed. The colonists returned fire in self-defense, and the shot was fired that was heard 'round the world. By the time the troops arrived at the Concord Bridge, just a few miles away, hundreds of colonists were waiting for them with muskets in hand, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Make no mistake about it: attempted gun confiscation ignited America's War for Independence.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Civil disobedience is a very powerful tool - it pushed the British out of India and gained civil rights for blacks in the South. It also ended gun registration in Canada.

They know it - that's why when the Gandhi of Gun Rights emerges, they'll perform a Ruby Ridge on him.

Civil disobedience has to be organic and leaderless - like the Tea Party in the beginning (remember how terrified the Left was of them, at first...)

[reed13k]

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