Once again a racist has made some rather self-incriminating statements and has illustrated his lack of understanding and lack of principles all at the same time.
From the Twin Cities Daily Planet comes this "gem" from Ralph Remington (he possesses a proud firearm name, at least). He doesn't understand what is happening in the world around him, and is blaming others. So let me educate him.
First of all, Mr. Remington is a racist. His capitalizations in the piece illustrate the importance he places upon "race", as does his mindset. He claims the opposition to Obama's socialist agenda is based upon only the president's "race". If that were the case, freedom advocates such as myself would have been saying nothing during Bush the Second's ill-conceived reign. We were not silent; Mr. Remington was just not listening. Only a racist could decry justified opposition to Obama's agenda because of "sympathy" for, or identification with, Obama's "race".
If the Black Panther incident he mentions from May 2, 1967, happened just as he relates, given the opportunity I would be right there to support the absolute right of those activists to own and to carry their arms wherever they wish, as long as they do not initiate force, and I loudly condemn the rights-violations by the police who responded, and Reagan's self-serving reaction of passing the "laws" against open carry in California. Despicable authoritarian statists of every stripe often react badly to people exercising fundamental human rights.
Also, Mr. Remington, you must be willingly ignoring the race of the most "famous" open-carrier who was made such a big deal of in the mainstream media recently: the video shown by MSNBC was "creatively" edited to hide the race of the man with the AR-15 at Obama's Arizona appearance. But, we should be used to this sort of dishonesty from the mainstream media by now, shouldn't we?
Then he claims the demonstrators are "misquoting Thomas Jefferson to justify a call to arms". Really? Read beyond the one, feared, quote to the whole body of Jefferson's writings. Jefferson believed that tyrants needed to be killed, every time they came to power, and he recognized that freedom-lovers would die in the unpleasantness as well, in order to "water the tree of liberty". There is no "misquoting" going on, and the only misunderstanding comes from those who hate freedom and side with the tyrants. People like Mr. Remington, apparently.
Jefferson and many of the other founders of America were much less polite about saying what needed to happen to those who violated the basic human rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" than most modern demonstrators and freedom advocates. Most of us are cowards compared to them. Jefferson and his ilk would have been saying exactly what they were thinking and taking whatever consequences came their way. Of course, there was no ironically misnamed "PATRIOT act" back then to be used to protect tyrants from justice.
If there IS the racial "subtext" that Mr. Remington hungers for, it is not coming from the REAL freedom advocates, but from a few of the disgruntled Republicans who are simply riding on the coat tails of the freedom lovers. They are not the ones tyrants really need to fear, though, since they are fine with tyranny as long as it is "their guy" doing the tyrannizing.
Those of us who matter don't care about a person's race, we care about his or her actions. We care about freedom. We are not "conservative", or "racist". A large number of us are LGBT, "Black", Hispanic, female, Asian, Native, or members of any other "group" that Mr. Remington falsely believes are on his side: you know, the side that believes it is OK to steal and murder as long as you wear the silly hat of "government", and do it for "health care" or some other disgusting collectivist program.
Guess what. It is not OK. We know it, and we will educate you if you lack the principles to figure it out for yourself. All of your favorite government programs, Mr. Remington, including the "Civil Rights Department" you keep mentioning, are based upon your erroneous belief that the government can ethically steal money from its rightful owners (the people who earned it) and then use that money to force people into living as the "majority", using government, desires, through force and threats of force. Your "government" always comes down, at its very foundation, to murder, Mr. Remington.
Like so many, you try to justify Obama by contrasting him to Bush. Bush was evil, was an international and domestic bully, and a traitor to the cause of freedom. He was no friend to gun owners, and was only a "gun-toting cowboy" in the way that certain crooked "lawmen" in the old west were. They could tote the guns, but everyone else was forbidden. Your "rational, and even-tempered president" is of the exact same type. He is another collectivist authoritarian. He is a life-long enemy of gun owners and free people everywhere. Just like Bush. Why, Mr. Remington, do you refuse to see and accept the truth? Why do you lie for Obama?
Guess what. I am fine with people "wearing Islamic attire" carrying, not just weapons, but fully automatic rifles, to town meetings or anywhere else, as long as they don't initiate force. I would happily do the same. It is the only way to keep government honest. Once again your racism is exposed, Mr. Remington.
You might be surprised to find that your "friends and family - White, Black, Asian, Latino, Native and LGBT", are not all as stupid and anti-freedom as you assume they are. Some of them are probably the very people you would fear and hate, if you bothered to get to know them.
Nevertheless, Mr. Remington, if revolution comes and you are there on your porch "with guns in the air and a beret on [your] head" (might I suggest a safer direction in which to point your guns? Perhaps at the actual aggressors?), I will support, and if possible defend, your right to protect your life, liberty, and property- to my death. Where do you get the authority to attempt to deny me the same freedom? I suspect you will be watching the wrong people while the real enemies of your life, liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness get you from behind. It isn't those you rail against who would deny you your freedom, after all.
Tip of the old sombrero to War on Guns for bringing this to my attention.
Comments
I left a comment for Ralph there and told him to quit pretending to be a reporter and writer and to go back to the night shift at Burger King.
Dang, Kent, just come right out and say it, why don't ya? :-)
Funny, isn't it, how uppity some people get just because the conversation actually turns *meaningful*, actually going beyond the sanitized pabulum we usually have to deal with?
Oh, and thanks for the link to "The penalty is always death". That's outstanding!
Aaron says:
I left a comment for Ralph there and told him to quit pretending to be a reporter and writer and to go back to the night shift at Burger King.
Now that's funny. Ralph just proves with every sentance he writes what a idiot he is. And he's a elected official? The people of Minnesota need to get educated about this racist a-hole.
I left a comment, but cannot now access any but four comments, so I don't know if it was printed or not. I wasn't nearly as polite as Aaron.
link to "The penalty is always death".
Where can I find this?
I'm pretty sure Remington is happy with the system. He's fine with the threat of the gun by his government, as long as the people in power believe as he does. To him and his ilk, honest gun owners will always be "the Boogieman."
He just hates gunowners. And when people run out the tired old "racist" banner, you know they're out of rational arguments.
Yeah, RIGHT Ralph. Everyone who owns a gun is out to get anyone with different color skin, gender, sexual preferences, etc.
That's just nutty, and he's already got to know that. If that was the truth, considering the amount of ammunition purchased an fired every year in the U.S., there would be no one left alive, of ANY persuasion.
Robert- The link to "The Penalty is Always Death" is in the 10th paragraph. Click on the words "its very foundation, to murder".
"When the fox administers justice, the chickens will always be found guilty." - Cat Farmer
"...with guns in the air and a beret on {your] head". File this under the "Be careful what you wish for" category. Mr. Remington's attempt to interject the image of Che Guevara - and superimpose that of his own - may work to his disadvantage when the revolt begins.
"...at it's very foundation, to murder." I used this very argument with a friend, who also happens to be a state legislator. After discovering that my friend had voted for a seat-belt law, I said: "You and your friends at the legislature are gonna get me killed." Naturally he told me that I was just exaggerating. Nearly 3 years passed before I read that a guy in Minnesota was pulled over by the local deputy for failing to observe the seatbelt law. An argument ensued over the absurdity of the law and police incompetence, resulting in the driver being thrown to the ground, handcuffed, and tased by the deputy. The company manufacturing the taser denied its product stopped the man's heart and killed him. They claimed the recently deceased citizen died of a pre-existing heart condition. Note: prior to his untimely demise, this grandfather of four was a productive citizen; and had never even had a parking ticket issued to him during his lifetime.
Sic semper tyrannis
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Far as I'm concerned BHO is shaping up to be another Jimmy Carter only with a better tan and a yankee accent.
My real fear based on his track record and history is that he is a liberal democrat who learned his politics in that cesspool known as Chicago/Cook County. Lived near there for a good many years and no one gets very far in that snake pit and remain honest if they even started out that way.
All I could really say to Mr. Remmington was a quote from Samuel Adams;
“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.”
There are some interesting revelations coming out through Sibel Edmonds and the "Chicago connection". Outright treason is not out of the question with regards to many of that cast of characters.
I have to say that some folks don't mind being "slaves" at all so long as their slave master is the one holding the whip.
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