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Breaking: Seventy-two Killed Resisting Gun Confiscation In Boston.


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Hopefully this country has learned from its past and no American will ever have to raise arms against their on countrymen in order to restore or keep their freedoms again.

Happy Independence Day.

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Hopefully this country has learned from its past and no American will ever have to raise arms against their on countrymen in order to restore or keep their freedoms again.

Happy Independence Day.

Hey, well, peace just doesn't make good copy. Constitutional Convention: 55 guys totally reconstitute the government over 4 months. Shots fired = 0.

Not a very cool breaking news story. July 4 is more fun.

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Power to the people.  I was rooting for the citizens.  :usa:
My country, 'tis of thee,
    Sweet land of liberty,
    Of thee I sing;
    Land where my fathers died,
    Land of the pilgrims' pride,
    From ev'ry mountainside
    Let freedom ring!

 

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The only way you'll get US civilians to unite like that now days, is if you turn off cell phone service, cable tv, electricity, the internet.......................

 

on next weeks episode of REVOLUTION on NBC....

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Seventy-two killed resisting gun confiscation in Boston

 

National guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed on April 19th by elements of a para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.

 

Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement. Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group's organizers as "criminals," issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government's efforts to secure law and order. The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed wide-spread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault weapons.

 

Gage issued a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early this month between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms.

 

One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that "none of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned over their weapons voluntarily." Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition. However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the government's plans. During a tense standoff in Lexington 's town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists. Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange.

 

Ironically, the local citizenry blamed government forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths. Before order could be restored, armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended upon the guard units. Colonel Smith, finding his forces overmatched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat.

 

Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops. Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as "ringleaders" of the extremist faction, remain at large.

 

And this, people, is how the American Revolution began.

 

April 20, 1775

This is awesome.  Next time you should try to write your own opinion instead of doing the cut and paste that you obviously prefer to do. 

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This is awesome. Next time you should try to write your own opinion instead of doing the cut and paste that you obviously prefer to do.

It was an email forward. I don't make any claims of this being mine or original content.
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