Posted on 10/23/2013 6:28:14 AM PDT by marktwain
“There is abroad in our land the growing thought that America is now in fact two countries sharing a common border and (mostly) a common language but divided along the answer to this question,” citizen journalist Mike Vanderboegh told approximately 600 activist gun owners, many carrying long arms, who gathered at The Alamo this past Saturday. “Does the government serve the people or do the people serve the government?”
“This is not a question [that] can be finessed, compromised or negotiated,” Vanderboegh explained. “It is either the answer of individual liberty or that of the collectivist Borg … For our part we would be happy just to be left alone. But the collectivist impulse -- the tyrannical appetite -- cannot be readily denied by its practitioners … And those who possess this insatiable appetite for other people's liberty, property and lives can only be deterred by the compelling and credible counter-argument that such appetites come with personal consequences for them…”
That’s the type of rhetoric anti-gun hive mind “monopoly of violence” zealots like those at the National Coalition to Ban Handguns call “insurrectionist,” sprinkled with words like “treason” and “traitor.” It’s the type of speech that would prompt U.S. News and World report editor and PBS contributor Bonnie Erbe to demand rounding up its practitioners. And citizens like Vanderboegh, and those who cheered and applauded him, are the type of people that “progressive” cartoonist Ted Rall wants declared enemy combatants and bundled off to Bagram, adding “If ever there were a reason for suspending civil rights, this is it.”
The Obama administration, of course, is pleased to promulgate the idea that Constitutionalists and gun owners are domestic threats, from Southern Poverty Law Center-inspired Department of Homeland Security “assessments” to
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
The Takers including the lowest welfare queen to the highest insider Bankster making off with taxpayer bailouts along with all the bureaucrats, oh-fficals, politicians, contractors, and taxpayer funded NGO's in the middle.
REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
Just skip The Examiner website. The sound in the video is lousy anyway.
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2013/10/one-country-or-two.html?m=1
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