Apparently two individuals – possibly from Chechnya (Chechen Muslims?) – were responsible for the bombings at the Boston Marathon. One of them is now dead, but the other is on the run.
In Watertown, the “authorities” have shut everything down. They have requested that business not open. Schools – including MIT – are shut down. They are blocking access to the town. People are being told to stay indoors.
Didn’t the Boston area play some role in the whole “American Independence” thing? Did the men at Lexington and Concord cower in their homes and wait for the the “authorities” to save them? Oh, that’s right! In those days, it was the authorities that were coming to take their arms and their means for defending themselves, so that they would be totally reliant on the “authorities” in the future. In those days, those men stood up and said “NO!”.
I’m sure that not all of them were “high speed, low drag”. I’m sure many of them were overweight, not in the best of shape, or otherwise not the image of a perfect “soldier”. But they were men, ready to defend themselves and their families. They took a stand, and backed it up with their lives. They were willing to stand between their loved homes and those that would harm them.
Things have, apparently, changed.
Now, Massachusetts has a ban on arms that are styled after those of our own military. On this very date (19-April) in 1775, men stood and fought for their RIGHT to keep and bear arms in that place. They took lives, and some gave their lives, to keep that right. It triggered a war that changed the world.
In 2004, they stood by as their elected representatives did through legislation, the same thing that the British forces tried to do in 1775. They allowed them to succeed.
Now, they are cowering in their homes as ONE MAN SHUTS DOWN AN ENTIRE CITY!
Some will say that it would be too dangerous for them to attempt to confront this man themselves, that it is best left to the “professionals”. Yes, professionals like those in Los Angeles, that shot INNOCENT PEOPLE in a desperate hunt for a cop killer. Or professionals like the one that shot himself in the leg in front of school children when he had just finished telling them that he was the only one “professional enough” to handle such a firearm. Professionals like those that are caught on video daily violating the rights of Americans around the country – in all of those “isolated incidents” we hear about.
What happened to WE THE PEOPLE, in so relatively few years? Why aren’t men standing on their porches and in the doorways of their businesses with their “modern muskets” at the ready and their pistols on their hips? Why aren’t the neighborhoods organized to defend against this scum?
Some will say that we are too “civilized” for this. There is no need, since we have the police.
OPEN YOUR EYES AND LOOK AT REALITY! There is a situation going on, right now, on 19-April-2013, in the Boston area of all places, that shows that THIS IS NOT THE CASE.
This is what happens when some among WE THE PEOPLE bow down and give up pieces of their rights. They allowed for infringement on that which “shall not be infringed”, and today, 19-April-2013, we see the results.
I’m sure that the blood of those men that died on the side of Freedom at Lexington and Concord cries out, that those of today are not worthy. That it was all in vain. “Why didn’t they hold to that we we fought and died for them to have?”
I weep for the people of Boston. Of all people, in all places, on this day – they should clearly see what they have given up. They can not stand up and be men like those that came before them.
Let the rest of us see, and learn, and make our own determination that we will not allow this to happen to us. Let them not take away your ability OR YOUR WILLINGNESS to stand up. Be not disarmed, and be not afraid.