Posted on 06/23/2016 5:03:52 PM PDT by vannrox
It could never happen here, right?
Boston – National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed by elements of a Para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.
Speaking after the clash, the Massachusetts Governor declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement.
The Governor blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group’s organizers as “criminals,” issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government’s efforts to secure law and order.
The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed wide-spread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault weapons.
The Governor issued a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early this month between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms.
One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that “none of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned over their weapons voluntarily.”
Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition. However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the government’s plans.
During a tense standoff in the Lexington town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists.
Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange.
Ironically, the local citizenry blamed government forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths. Before order could be restored, armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended upon the guard units. Colonel Smith, finding his forces over-matched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat.
The Governor has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops. Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as “ringleaders” of the extremist faction, remain at large.
And this fellow Americans, is how the American Revolution began, April 20, 1775.
Who could imagine....
That they would freak out....
In Massachusetts
Very few people seem to know about this.
Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as “ringleaders” of the extremist faction, remain at large.
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Ringleaders
Remain At Large
Bring it.
Save
Shameful that the rats commandeered the education system in this country and just about erased the founding and the reasons why we have the 1 st amendment and the second. Our politicians should heed the message
This is a significant moment in American history.
I may be one of the few who first thought the article was about some more current event. I kept thinking; “Why haven’t I heard about this before now?” Never mind.
My tagline is my opinion.
But the Red Coats were just
Enforcing The Law !?!
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History will be repeated.
great post...thanks
The media we have now wouldn’t be this fair in how they would report such an event.
FYI Ping worthy?
By the time it was over, 3,000 angry Colonists firing from the woods on the Redcoat column as they marched back from Lexington. Of 700 Redcoats, 200+ casualties. Especially vulnerable were British Officers on horseback.
How ungentlemanly.
April 19, not 20.
So, were those Assault Weapons AR-1 flint-lock Blunderbusses?
Sensationalism..this kind of post is what the left uses to make the true Conservatives, not the BUTTHURT Cruz supporters look bad..
absolutely, I had scores of kin who turned out to the alarm. Some were even notable in the events of that day, my most favorite day in history.
Stand by
As I’ve occasionally pointed out: had any US troops in Iraq acted as law enforcement did in Waco there would have been howls about war crimes from Democrats ... but one of their own was calling the shots and it was just Americans so hardly a peep....
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