There is a man with a gun near an Obama rally. Here is the video. This is insane!
Did you see his sign? "It Is Time to Water the Tree of Liberty." That is from this Jefferson quote:
And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
This is the same exact quote Tim McVeigh was referencing in a shirt he wore... before bombing the Oklahoma City federal building.
Now, imagine if there was left-winger with a gun waiting for Bush holding a sign that the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood tyrants? How long would that guy have lasted? You think they'd let him just sit there and wait for Bush? And say, "Hey, it's perfectly legal!"
Is anyone stupid or disingenuous enough to believe that? They would have taken his ass down in a flat second. They would have infiltrated whatever group he belonged to and monitored his ass for the rest of time.
Now imagine he was Muslim and waiting for Bush with a gun. What do you think would have happened then?
PS -- One more thought. What happens the next time two of these guys show up at an Obama rally? How about ten of them? Twenty?
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Bringing a gun to a presidential event is a distraction for the Secret Service. If enough people bring guns, it becomes a big distraction for the Secret Service AND much easier for some "patriot" to fulfill his/her dream.
When the Bullshies were practically paranoid on the subject at times? When the holy Merikans emulated Sodom over anyone wearing a turban after 9/11?
I hope they do not ruin the right for people to have the right to guns, not every area is urban.
Freeman Institute............... enough said.
here is some background on Militias.
So is Cleon Skousen, former FBI agent and chief of police for
Salt Lake City. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s he had close ties
with "establishment" right-wing movements and then founded the
Freemen Institute. He has now renamed it the National Center for
Constitutional Studies. He told the Salt Lake City Tribune that "I
found some people (in the Institute) becoming military minded and
calling themselves Freemen. We had to change the name." Skousen
also insisted that "We need to clearly distinguish between people who
are trying to understand what's happening to government, and may be
critical of some of the adventures it's taken in the past 75 years . . .
and those people who can't stand talking about it and have to get out
and do something."
Skousen supports militias, though, and so does his friend
Samuel Sherwood. He founded the Constitutional Militia Association
in Idaho, which spread to several other states and boasted 1,500
members. The group was apparently infiltrated by
more "radical" types from organizations like Aryan Nations, and
Sherwood disbanded it.
http://www.skepticfiles.org/moretext/mm.htm
"Samuel Sherwood's statement last March threatening to shoot Idaho state legislators for supporting federal mandates such as the Endangered Species Act."
Sadly, these people are used for political desires of the LDS church.
The gun makes the guy feel like a big man.
I'm guessing he's compensating for something else. Sometimes a cigar ISN'T just a cigar.
Are you talking about the Black man with the rifle?
Look Dick look, you can bring a gun to a rally, look Jane look.
Next time there will be 20 and the next 40....
The question remains: WHY bring a gun to a public forum?
The ONLY plausible reason is for intimidation of one's political opponents.
I declare, American Taliban Radio and its Ayatollahs and Imams (Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, et al.) are less freedom oriented and more 'conform or else' oriented. If you leave the faith, it's off with your head. If you transgress, you have to kiss the Ayatollah's butt and seek forgiveness (See Steele/Limbaugh).
I think it's time we start using language back at 'em, and call them American Taliban and right wing terrorists. It's what they are morphing into - let's name it.
Stick it to 'em!
BTW Love your puppy pic...:)
“Then, on August 7, an anti-health care reform protester in New Mexico named Scott Oskay Tweeted to his hundreds of followers to bring their licensed concealed handguns to town hall meetings, adding, "If ACORN/SEIU attends these townhalls for disruption, stop being peaceful, and hurt them. Badly."”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-horwitz/handguns-and-health-care_b_255839.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/11/chris-matthews-to-town-ha_n_256952.html
Why are either of these two men walking around free today? They both have committed assault with a deadly weapon. While it might be legal for them to have a gun, the tweet of one man and the sign of the other indicate intent to do harm with the guy in New Hampshire threatening both the counter protesters in attendance, as well as the President and by extension the whole country as well.
(Historically, laws treated the threat of physical injury as "assault", and the completed act of physical contact or offensive touching as “battery.” http://www.statelawyers.com/Practice/Practice_Detail.cfm/PracticeTypeID:10)
Incorrect.
As the Chris Matthews interview on MSNBC showed, the gun toting protester was an attention seeker who could only explain his actions by spouting Palin-Drones (streams of random libertarian catch phrases, not the sentences that read the same backwards and forwards). This nut was looking to start trouble, but why help him? The Obama team isn't the Bush team. That is a good thing. No drama Obama. My conclusion is that the professionals acted professionally....and that the protester is going to have a lot of discrete company fin his foreseeable future, not the media fame he craves.
Tell you what, ctom. Go march up and down in front of your local beat cop with your gun on display and your protest signs. Let me know how that goes for you when you make bail.
Speaking of drama, one wonders what positive, socially useful reaction the fellow thought he'd provoke by displaying his weapon when and where he did. "My goodness, what a nice patriot, exercising his First and Second Amendment rights alongside his neighbors--wouldn't the President be pleased to encounter him!" wasn't exactly my first thought. It was more along the lines of wondering about the depth of his evident anger, the psychological basis for it, and the scope of his capacity to reason and communicate critically, calmly and sanely, as in: "Why would any rational person want to do THAT?".