Comments on: In search of a strategy to save freedom

By: John in ME

John in ME — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:17:47 +0000

“…What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify if a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure….” — Thomas Jefferson: Letter to Colonel Smith, Nov. 13, 1787

By: Mike T.

Mike T. — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:50:42 +0000

Kit you’re certainly entitled to your options. But when the government finally comes to your door they won’t be asking to take your guns they’ll just take them.

Since most soldiers or policemen for that matter have never read the Constitution your protests will fall on deaf ears.

Maybe you’ll be lucky and live through your stay in prison. However if you show the same weakness in there as you write in your post, I doubt you’ll have much of a chance.

By: Kit

Kit — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:46:06 +0000

I’m not sure it’s an issue. Most American soldiers would not turn on their countrymen because their loyalty is not to the President or Congress, but to the people and the Constitution.
If someone from the government came to my door and asked me to voluntarily hand over my weapons, I would laugh and close the door. If a law was passed banning my weapons, I would hide them. If armed police or soldiers came to my door saying what I owned was illegal, I would quote the Constitution at them and refuse to turn them over. If arrested, I would not attempt to harm the arresting officers. But I would refuse to tell them where my weapons were in the hopes that family and friends would be able to reach the cache and use them when the country devolved into chaos.
I could not condone an attack on the civilian authority in the country by someone whose guns were taken, because it would not have the right effect. It would kill people who were more likely stupid than evil, it would galvanize those on the fence against the gunowner, and it would cause the crackdown happen faster and harder.

By: Mayberry

Mayberry — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:01:07 +0000

Wife and kids notwithstanding, I once signed a blank check in support of the USA and the Constitution to the US Navy, and I’ll sign one again in support of the Constitution against the tyranny that has taken a stranglehold on the USA. I’ve got guns, ammo, and guts to spare, along with a burning desire for freedom, liberty, and justice for all…. And I ain’t scared of no jack-booted thugs. I’ll scream from the mountain tops against the federal government that has WAY overstepped it’s bounds in the last several decades. I’ll stand beside real patriots who believe in the Constitution and America as she was meant to be. Liberty or Death!!!!

By: Lynn Stokes

Lynn Stokes — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:01:32 +0000

Never surrender and never give up!