Posted on 12/23/2005 4:38:26 PM PST by neverdem
Source:http://www.nraila.org/issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=177
Correctable. Anyone giving such an order, anyone following such an order should never hold public office or wear a badge again. Ever.
Are they public servants or royalty?
Are they policemen or mercenaries?
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I am not surprised that this all took place in a democrat controlled (for 60 years) place.
That said, I agree we all need to be very thoughtful on what our individual responses would be if (when) such a situation occurs.
It's going to happen sooner or later, I'm afraid.
The day it does happen is when tyranny will have broken out and will be the day when it is the citizens duty to remove the dictatorial leaders from power.
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I guess my tagline says it all on this point.
Thanks for the story I hadn't seen that one.
What is interesting here...is that the cops chose their "victums" one by one. Had everyone left in Orleans known what was going to occur...then a militia would have formed, and a dozen guys would have been there at each location to face the cops. For some reason, cops...even if there are 20 of them on the scene...have a fear if more than two of the opposing group are armed. This is probably why the consitution left freedom of assemby and freedom to maintain your firearm very clear in the consitution.
I've got a flash of bad news for you. The Pew Trusts did a big sociological survey in 1999, which they've since updated, that identified a key group within the Republican coalition as being very, very weak on Second Amendment rights -- businessmen. The very constituency that drives this Administration. They don't like the "lower orders" owning firearms. Understandable, given businessmen's vocation of taking money from them.
Don't believe me? Post me a link to a story, any story, about how the Bush Administration or DoJ sprang to assist citizens whose Second Amendment rights were being violated by the Louisiana constabulary.
Worse, Oklahoma National Guardsmen and the U.S. Marshal Service participated in the roundup.
Handgun Control is watching. So is Hillary.
But, they swore an Oath, to protect and defend the Constitution. Pardon my sarcasm. Blackbird.
"-- businessmen."
A large number of Masonic types derive from them.
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Not the rank and file Joe Blows who get together for some fun and foolishness on "temple nights".
Yet you tell me, most Mason's are tend to be business and professional type folks,,,business people are said to be weakest on the rights to bear arms. I merely ask the question. Are there any published articles that today's Masons are vastly supportive of RTKBA?(at least of the leadership)?
I ask the question, knowing my own dad was a Mason member!
Speaks volumes doesn't it.
The Pew Trusts did, however, survey businessmen extensively in 1999 and found them weak on RKBA. I think we could count on them to roll over for gun confiscation and heavy restriction, particularly if it were aimed at "lower-class types", i.e. their employees.
IMHO businessmen have been weak on the whole subject of personal liberty and American independence going back to 1775. They were all for throwing off royal imposts on their business, but they've behaved like Tories ever since, "royalists without the King". That was always true of Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists he repped for. Hamilton attacked the idea of the Bill of Rights very strongly in the last two or three numbers of The Federalist. It was the Antifederalists who championed the Bill of Rights.
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you were talking about this subject earlier - thought you'd be interested...
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