I am asking everyone who reads this post to please forward it, send it, email it, copy it, embed it and use it to tell as many people as you can what has just happened in Boston. Forget opinions and conspiracy theories, due to modern technology you can trust your own eyes. Watch this shocking video. Then answer this call to action by sharing this with everyone you know.
If you watched the above video what you have just seen is people being ripped from their homes at gunpoint. You saw military uniforms, fully automatic weapons and the full fire power of an organized government trained on ordinary citizens as their homes are entered and searched (likely without a warrant).
What you saw with your own eys is exactly the kind of force against which our founders fought and the kind of abuses of personal liberty that they sought to prevent with the protections they embedded in the Bill of Rights, specifically the Second Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Ninth and the Tenth Amendments.
We do not need to be told by commentators what this video shows. This could just as easily have been a drill for Martial Law. It just as easily could have been any type of enforcement action. But what it is does not need explanation, just context.
This is a video, shot by a citizen, during the manhunt in Boston. You can see it with your own eyes, thanks to modern technology and the Internet.
Now, for additional context. This raid, caught on tape, came as the Manchin/Toomey amendment was about to receive a vote in the Senate. It came within a year of an effort by the supporters of Barack Obama, Diane Feinstein, Joe Biden and many others to outlaw certain firearms, certain magazine capacities and to create a record keeping system which the National Institute of Justice said could only work if there was a national gun registry AND mandatory buy-backs of guns.
It came within a year of the worst shortage of ammunition available to ordinary citizens in the last 50 years. And despite the arguments from the left that our founders could never have envisioned 30 round magazines and AR-15's, Senator Frank Lautenberg took the opportunity after Boston to call for background checks for the purchase of BLACK POWDER, the exact same propellant used by our founders in their muskets!
See what your eyes tell you. Read the Second and Fourth Amendments. And then remember the words of Patrick Henry:
"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!"
It's Boston, again.
Really Ken? Did you see any paper? I don't care if 20 people came out (did you ever think they were having a "hostage party"? Heck, they couldn't GO anywhere, maybe all the neighbors came over. Last I knew IT WASN'T AGAINST THE LAW to have people in your house) it is their house and unless they had a warrant they were not allowed in unless they asked nicely and were admitted by the homeowner. I didn't see either.
Posted by: Chris in Florence | April 23, 2013 at 04:50 PM
As usual, you only presented your version of what occurred. There was no mention of why the police were at THAT house. No mention of the huge amount of people that came out of the house. No mention that the police went to THAT house for a particular reason and felt that they needed to protect themselves and innocent people in case the residents were indeed armed. No mention that they didn't raid every house on the block, just THAT one. Get the facts of WHY they went to THAT house before you get paranoid about the government bursting in every door in America! Oh wait, they appeared to knock loudly on the door and didn't kick it in didn't they???
Posted by: Ken | April 23, 2013 at 08:24 AM
I hope they sue someone. I'm sure the case will be thrown out in the name of public safety, but this is WRONG! This is exactly what I was talking about the other day in the comments. They had no right to enter homes, and not one of those people should have let them. I know, easy for me to say, I don't have the M-16 pointed in my face....
Posted by: Chris in Florence | April 21, 2013 at 06:37 PM