[WKUHilltopper]

Wow...Pravda? If anyone would know what tyranny looks like, it would be formerly enslaved commies.

[Psalm 144]

“Moscow fell, for example, not from a lack of weapons to defend it, but from the lying guile of the Reds. Ten thousand Reds took Moscow and were opposed only by some few hundreds of officer cadets and their instructors. Even then the battle was fierce and losses high. However, in the city alone, at that time, lived over 30,000 military officers (both active and retired), all with their own issued weapons and ammunition, plus tens of thousands of other citizens who were armed. The Soviets promised to leave them all alone if they did not intervene. They did not and for that were asked afterwards to come register themselves and their weapons: where they were promptly shot.”

Something analogous is quite possible here. Give a little, lose it all.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

CITIZENS! TURN IN YOUR WEAPONS! Russian poster from 1919.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

We never gave up our First Amendment rights.. but

it took decades before the First Amendment was brought into focus vis-a-vis the "Fairness Doctrine." Obama could use a kind of "Fairness Doctrine."

I remember the decades of the "Fairness Doctrine;"

the First Amendment remained but conservative opinion was stifled by simply "waiting" for citizens to complain about media content thus threatening the station owners' licenses..

• "You might also think that they would recall the notorious Fairness Doctrine, which was used to 'harass and intimidate' right-wing radio broadcasts, in the words of one unabashed Kennedy-Johnson operative. When that censorious policy was ended in 1987 by former broadcaster Ronald Reagan, there was an explosion of talk formats that gave voice to popular concerns (for a while, Rush Limbaugh even billed himself as equal time)."
• As reported by Fred Friendly in his book appropriately entitled The Good Guys, the Bad Guys, and the First Amendment, this was part of a "massive strategy . . . to challenge and harass the right-wing broadcasters and hope that the challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited, and decide it was too expensive to continue." This strategy was said to have been successful in almost all respects.

.. the licenses in this case could be the result of de facto registration; to wit, the Administration declares that all guns are "registered" and "licensed." Gun owners can be identified and lose their "license(s)" when any citizen complains about the gun owner's behavior.

My point again is: We never gave up our First Amendment rights.. but . . . .

[Windflier]

Bet you wish you hadn't buried your guns now.

[SE Mom]

No it is about power and a total power over the people. There is a lot of desire to bad mouth the Tsar, particularly by the Communists, who claim he was a tyrant, and yet under him we were armed and under the progressives disarmed. Do not be fooled by a belief that progressives, leftists hate guns. Oh, no, they do not. What they hate is guns in the hands of those who are not marching in lock step of their ideology. They hate guns in the hands of those who think for themselves and do not obey without question. They hate guns in those whom they have slated for a barrel to the back of the ear.

So, do not fall for the false promises and do not extinguish the light that is left to allow humanity a measure of self respect.

[tomkat]

Mr. Mishin:  BRAVO !

[First_Salute]

bttt

[Sergio]

bkmk