Excellent...If today’s citizens had been there, those patriots at Concord bridge would be remembered for strewing rose petals in front of the British troops.
What an asinine statement. The Founders took great pains to avoid being rounded up by the British.
And as for where there counterparts of today are, they're tagged, easily tracked, and know perfectly well what people like the author of this tripe will do to, and won't do for, them once they get their "information" from popular media sources.
God save us from "patriots" of their own imagination.
Yep, that's exactly why we've been getting our asses kicked in the last three election cycles.
Go back under the rock you crawled out from under and take your shamefulness with you.
Waiting for Q to give us the word.
That and it’s cold outside.
//sarc
>>The conservative opposition is reactive at best, but invisible and limp most of the time.
We’re usually at work.
The personification of libertarian conservatism is the Tea Party. Did the Tea Party accomplish anything of note?
We are too busy working at a real job every day, raising our families, staying out of jail, not sitting around complaining about Life. Remember most of those you hear from on the left, don’t have these responsibilities to deal with.
I respectfully disagree, in part.
Election victories are very important.
And "keeping your powder dry" can be as strong as editorials.
There is a strong undercurrent within the "working people" of this great country. I worked in the campaign as a local volunteer in 2016, in Michigan. Talked to a lot of merchants, skilled tradesmen and the like.
I live five miles from Central Michigan University. Heard more than a few comments that included the "N" word in the stores. No complaints about guns.
Just my observations.
“...where are today’s Sons of Liberty? .... But I am far too old to organize the counter-revolution.”
There you have it. You have answered your own question.
I have confronted these friends of tyranny since 1964, in classes, on the streets, as a student, as a volunteer parade marshal, as a National Guardsman, as a Freeper, as a counter-demonstrator. I am too old now for street fighting. About all I can do is sit before a computer and type, arguing my views before the ignorant who can not think logically or critically or recognize a fact from wishful thinking. What more could I do?
It’s a shame. The scumbag Loyalists never changed. We want to think 1776 was a slam dunk but we have been fighting anti-Americanism since the formation of our nation. We conservatives are the true original liberal. The left is petrified of our response if it had to go full revolutionary but we don’t so they will rope-a-dope us,hit and run, and kill America by a 1000 cuts most of the time with our help. We are being flooded by an invasion of illegals, the Constitution is shrinking as government mostly run by liberals expands like a monster. I have no qualms about being a proactive revolutionary to save America. If that time comes, there is no turning back and our first Civil War and anything seen in the Mideast would seem tame. Let’s be real: half the country is gone. We remotely resemble what the Founders gave us by the grace of God.
Those who know, don't say.
Those who say, don't know.
You have to hand it to Rudi Dutschke, Antonio Gramsci, Herbert Marcuse, Saul Alinsky...they know how to plan out a hundred year campaign to destroy freedom and democracy in the West. Conservatives have no long-view like that.
The Sons of Liberty were rowdy and rough but those with a taste for liberty quietly cheered them on. We need a modern-day parallel. We need heroes.
The snowflakes and cultural warriors today are winning by default. They spout pure madness and/or open communist dogma, with the loving forebearance of what used to be the Press, while we on the right have few heroes to cheer for and the ones we have get no coverage. Maybe we need some muscular college boys to band together for a little extracurricular activity. The Sons of Liberty did a brisk business in bruises, making the opposition think twice about appearing in public.
On the plus side, there is indeed a Silent Majority out here in the hinterlands. There is a milita element that would make our Colonial Minutemen proud, and it could be expanded enormously with just a few phone calls. Most average citizens at least understand the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, and there are millions of veterans whose oath to “support and defend” the Constitution carried no expiration date. All is not lost ... yet.
Our question becomes: How do we stop a cultural (Communist) revolution in the making, especially one as far advanced as the one we now face? Time for some bruises?
You do know the Revolutionary War and Independence was supported by a small minority of the population of the colonies...but look what became of it.
I think the Sons of Liberty could be reestablished as a nationwide watchdog organization comprised of millions of patriots from every one of the 50 states.
Your closing:
<>As Thomas Jefferson said, “The Tree of Liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots.”<>
Okay, exactly what do you recommend young, strong, tough patriots should do? Where should they direct their violence? A Bernie-Bot tried to massacre a couple dozen GOP congressmen. It that what you have in mind, but on a larger scale?
I’ve been asking that question for a long time .Everytime the left wackos go off on gun control there,should be a voice twice as loud telling them to shut the hell up and go away.
“The conservative opposition is reactive at best, but invisible and limp most of the time.”
Kind of like Japan thought of America some time ago.