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What Would Michael Collins Do?
Western Rifle Shooters Association ^ | 02/15/2013 | Bill Buppert

Posted on 02/15/2013 11:33:08 AM PST by Noumenon

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No - it won't be one man. Powerful essay with some excellent insights. My Irish ancestors have been notorious for seizing the opportunity for liberty and then foolishly squandering it. We here In America could hope to do better.

“Perhaps the world isn’t the way we wish it would be. We all might wish that evil men could be persuaded from their vile behavior with bleeding heart entreaties, a kiss on the cheek, or proper toilet training. But it ain’t that way, folks, Pacifism is a sickness, an actual moral perversity, and dangerous when its effects spread to anyone else beside the pacifist. You may choose to walk to the cattle car, but damn you if you let your children be led up the ramp. You must never allow any group or government to steal your right to exercise armed lethal force in a just situation.”
- Kirby Ferris

1 posted on 02/15/2013 11:33:22 AM PST by Noumenon
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To: Noumenon; Travis McGee; dixiechick2000; Pelham; blam; mrsmel

Collins compromised for peace and power after being essentially a murderer at that point

I don’t see much of a lesson

though he was better than that Cuban interloper

I don’t think we are quite to the point of assasinations and murder

but I fear that is an eventuality down the road

or else traditional America will simply surrender

Americans don’t understand local strife...we older Southerners still get it a bit but we are likely the last to have memories explained to us by those closer to the conflict and we were raised amongst fresher wounds and an extended aftermath...extended post civil war policies on into the 1960s down here

an aftermath btw...that has led to open border and Barack Obama and our destruction


2 posted on 02/15/2013 11:43:15 AM PST by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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To: Noumenon

Joe and Jane Americanidol won’t think of it as assassination. They’ll blame the victim, who in this case also happens to be a villain, which is confusing. Just like they could blame David Koresh for the women and children roasted in Waco.


3 posted on 02/15/2013 11:44:23 AM PST by Tublecane
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To: Noumenon

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2988710/posts?page=31

If the cops are out to get you, you probably did something wrong.

How not to get your ass kicked by the police
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JuBSkYTK74

Oh, and tell your complaints to the widows and orphans of the murdered police officers.


4 posted on 02/15/2013 11:47:36 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: Tublecane; Noumenon

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2988874/posts


5 posted on 02/15/2013 11:59:51 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: wardaddy

The best we can hope for now is to find regional pockets of relative freedom, where we might ride out the worst of the collapse and reset to hard realities.


6 posted on 02/15/2013 2:18:09 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Noumenon

While the cops who shot up those cars should be investigated and punished if found guilty of rash, unprofessional behavior, this guy Buppert is a paranoid wackjob.


7 posted on 02/15/2013 3:10:07 PM PST by driftless2
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To: Noumenon
Just read the complete essay, wow, what a piece of prose. I sure do agree with this part, (among many others).

"You may choose to walk to the cattle car, but damn you if you let your children be led up the ramp. You must never allow any group or government to steal your right to exercise armed lethal force in a just situation.”

8 posted on 02/15/2013 4:28:08 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Noumenon; Eaker; Absolutely Nobama; afnamvet; AK2KX; Ancesthntr; An Old Man; APatientMan; ...

CW2 Ping


9 posted on 02/15/2013 4:32:15 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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CW2 Ping


10 posted on 02/15/2013 4:33:15 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Pining_4_TX

“If the cops are out to get you, you probably did something wrong.”

I’m amazed there are people who actually believe that crap.


11 posted on 02/15/2013 4:45:41 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: wardaddy

We’re closer than you think.

And yes, it may be the only effective means of restoration left to us.

That is WHY we have a Second Amendment. When all else fails, we can still fight.


12 posted on 02/15/2013 4:47:13 PM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Travis McGee
UP...
13 posted on 02/15/2013 4:49:33 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Travis McGee

Thanks for the ping. BTTT.


14 posted on 02/15/2013 5:06:19 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Lurker

Why, yes, I do believe it.

I can’t believe people believe the crap that all cops are out to get people and are just government thugs.

Day in and day out, the majority of police officers in this country go about their jobs without incident, and it’s a difficult job. So, what would you have in place of the police? Armed citizens groups? Just who would hold them accountable.

The Bible clearly says that government wields the sword to keep order. Romans 13


15 posted on 02/15/2013 5:18:04 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: driftless2

Amen to that!


16 posted on 02/15/2013 5:19:11 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Yea, the Romans. Aren’t they the ones who threw Christians to lions? Is that what you mean by “law and order”?

What you believe is absolutely irrelevant. Did Hitler’s government wield the sword to keep “order”? What about those LA geniuses who shot up a couple of women who were delivering newspapers? Were they annointed by God to keep “order”?

How about those cops in Atlanta who murdered a grandmother in her bed and then planted drugs in her apartment. Is that what you mean with that reference to Romans?

Those women and kids the FBI fried at Waco... God approved?

Most cops are low IQ government drones cashing a paycheck. They don’t give a crap about your rights and they’ll riddle your car with bullets or kill your dog in the name of “officer safety” and then skate away without a second thought.

And those same cops will be more than happy to strap on their ninja gear, toss a flash bang into your house and then rip it to pieces when the order comes to confiscate your firearms. If you think anything differently you’re a fool.


17 posted on 02/15/2013 6:47:02 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"

- Patrick Henry

18 posted on 02/15/2013 7:40:41 PM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back The Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: DTogo
where...

Where will we draw the line?

When will we say enough??

What will finally provoke spontaneous direction action???

19 posted on 02/15/2013 7:57:50 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Pining_4_TX

“If the cops are out to get you, you probably did something wrong.”

If you’ve ever spent any period of time in Florida, you wouldn’t be saying that.


20 posted on 02/15/2013 8:00:00 PM PST by MplsSteve (General Mills is pro-gay marriage! Boycott their products!)
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