Saturday, December 31, 2005

Well, now isn't THIS special......

History has a way of repeating itself....
The following is an excerpt from:
MEMORANDUM OPINION FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ;
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British authorities, much like Charles II and James II a century before, moved to disarm the colonists as hostilities mounted in 1774. Britain banned the export of arms and ammunition to any of the colonies and ordered General Gage to consider how to disarm residents of rebellious areas. At least in Massachusetts, some disarmament occurred, and in the "Powder Alarm" of September 1, 1774, British soldiers seized ammunition belonging to the colonial militia. These actions stiffened resistance throughout the colonies and led the colonists to form independent local militias with broad membership, the "Minutemen." Gage's attempts in late 1774 and early 1775 to seize these groups' arms across Massachusetts provoked confrontations with large forces of armed colonists, and the Revolution was famously ignited by his efforts to do so at Concord and Lexington in April 1775. Virginia Governor Dunmore's raid on an ammunitions store in Williamsburg soon thereafter prompted a similar response, as militiamen surrounded his home. British authorities' continuing efforts to disarm colonists were among the actions that the Continental Congress cited when, in July 1775, it declared the colonies' reasons for taking up arms.
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And here we go again? You politicians had better start paying attention to your history books. You, I and others all know that what you are trying to accomplish is illegal, immoral and UNCONSTITUTIONAL! S.C.O.T.U.S. had better ACT and SOON!
Do you really think you are going to win?

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