Seeking Truth
columnist: Christine Smith

Topic: Gun Control
Where the Fight is Truly the Most Fierce

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...people such as Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, Rove, Hayden, Mueller and the rest of the gang, in my opinion, have begun the most fierce fight - and it's not there convenient "War on Terror" - it's right here in America against Americans...

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by Christine Smith
(Libertarian)
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

"...Some Americans claim that the Second Amendment is outmoded. They say that while U.S. personnel would do bad things to foreigners, they would never do bad things to Americans. Oh? You mean, like the way they tortured and sexually abused John Walker Lindh? Or the way they tortured, isolated, drugged, and brutalized Jose Padilla? Or the way they massacred people, including defenseless children, at Waco? Or the way they shot Vickie Weaver in the head, as she held her baby in her arms, and her teenage son in the back? Or the way they shot and killed antiwar demonstrators at Kent State? Or the way they rounded up Americans of Japanese descent and put them into concentration centers? Or the way they engaged in syphilis experiments with unsuspecting African-Americans? ..."
-From Jacob G. Hornberger's July 8, 2008 article "Robert Mugabe and the Second Amendment.

What a powerful paragraph from an excellent article!  It's a warning and reminder to be heeded.

Most Americans entirely forget the reason for the 2nd Amendment, and they refuse to believe that the U.S. government is capable of using force against its own citizenry. When one speaks of the original intent behind the amendment, one is often met with scoff as so many Americans think it's just paranoid to regard the government as a potential enemy. The excellent piece above details just what occurs when the citizens of a nation are unarmed, and it's a story we've seen throughout history. Tyrannies haven't any reason to stop at any length of oppression when a citizenry is powerless to defend itself.

When we look at the U.S., we see increasing acts of tyranny, arrogance beyond what I think Americans would have imagined in years past, and increasing power and control over every aspect of our lives. I can conceive of a day, perhaps in our not so distant future, in which U.S. troops may be ordered to be used against the American people right in our cities and neighborhoods. Though the "against" part will not be said, the effect will be the same. The U.S. would then eerily begin to resemble every past tyrannical country throughout history. Of course, it would almost certainly be done in the guise of "protecting" us from some dangerous "them" the government says is threatening us, but nevertheless once it's done, clashes (be they random, malicious, accidental or ordered) with fellow Americans are bound to occur. Then, those who have made the point of the original intent of the 2nd Amendment will no longer be viewed as paranoid, but as prophetic...but it's not something that takes any extraordinary sight to see, it's the natural outcome of any nation which permits its "leaders" to exert more and more power over their daily lives - with disarmament a major warning sign.

A healthy nation of liberty has nothing to fear from law abiding citizens with guns. Only those who would seek to victimize law-abiding citizens have something to be concerned about. Any would-be oppressor thinks twice before attempting to victimize those who are armed, and as a people, and as individuals across this nation, we are an armed people.

Recently, the DC gun ban was lifted by the U.S. Supreme Court, and interestingly who came out vocally against it? The director of the FBI, Robert Mueller, who said, ""weapons harm people, and more often than not they harm the people carrying them, "(NBC5news). He even referred to hoping the college campuses his grandchildren attend will be "weapons-free." Ironically, if college campuses were to become the "incubators of terrorism" he says he fears, it's an armed citizenry which will be our best protection.

So, with Mueller's extensive background in the military and law enforcement (and presumably/apparently with his military and law enforcement background an expertise with weaponry), perhaps (giving him the benefit of doubt) one may assume he thinks that's where guns should be - only in the hands of those trained and working for the government. To not give him the benefit of doubt, perhaps he realizes that the people's last recourse against being completely controlled by the government is in weapons they own. But, again, if we do give him the benefit of doubt, we're left with the conclusion that Mueller must think he's a "special" person, better than the rest of Americans and thereby more capable of rightfully or justly using a gun for self-defense or employing those with guns to use guns rightfully in self-defense on his behalf. But as for the rest of us, let them be weapon-less and vulnerable to those with guns (and then it would only be criminals and government with guns). Is that the kind of nation Mueller wants? A nation of victims? That kind of thinking, that kind of rationale and motive behind such absurd statements, serves to make the point well - we sure can't trust the rational ability of those who are there to "protect" us.

Want to know more about Mueller? I suggest you read a most interesting article from the VFW Magazine glorifying his combat experience in Vietnam...touted as experience to now be the one heading up effortsin their "War on Terror." In the article you'll find a quote from John Ashcroft, ""There's no question but that Bob Mueller was the right choice to reorganize the Bureau...The FBI is on the front lines of the war against terrorism, and as a former combat Marine, Mueller has always wanted to be where the fight is most fierce."

But people such as Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, Rove, Hayden, Mueller and the rest of the gang, in my opinion, have begun the most fierce fight - and it's not their convenient "War on Terror" - it's right here in America against Americans. They have done everything within (and Constitutionally without in my opinion) their invested power to strip Americans of rights they are Constitutionally bound to uphold and protect. And while director Michael Hayden's CIA may destroy tapes of interrogation, the results of their continual evil remains: it is Bush's gang and its oppression of people worldwide which is responsible for the enormous increase of hatred and rejection of this country. And though that in no way justifies retaliatory attacks upon civilians here, the rage of millions against this nation (our government) is understandable.

To me, it is in many various forms and ways, that the U.S. government is waging the most fierce fight of all and it is against the American people. For it is this government which endangers us from both within and from without.

In conclusion, I for one, and with many other Americans nationwide, believe in the full restoration of the 2nd Amendment. No bans. No exceptions. It's up to you to defend yourself against whomever the oppressor may be... when the fight is truly the most fierce.

Christine Smith is a writer and political activist from Colorado. You may visit her website (and blog): [link edited for length]

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