Saturday, May 31, 2014
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Federal Priest Molest Michigan's Election Laws
The U.S. Constitution specifically dictates that the
States have the authority to determine the place, time and manner of elections
of their senators and representatives.
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) failed to meet Michigan’s filing requirements. Mind you, he’s been in Congress for over 50 years. He knows his state’s election laws. That doesn’t mean anything in the Age of
Obama. A federal judge ruled Mr. Conyers
shall be on the ballot.
Who in the hell is this judge? Why he’s one of Sen. Harry Reid’s gate
crashers. After Senate Democrats changed the rules on confirmation of presidential appointees, there has been
a stampede of molesters to the federal priesthood. The Hill reported the following:
Judge
Matthew Leitman ordered that Conyers be put back on the August ballot last week
after the Michigan secretary of state had denied the congressman's appeal
earlier in the day.
The dispute stems from the failure of Conyers — who has been in
Congress for almost 50 years — to submit enough petition signatures to qualify
for the ballot under Michigan law. No one disputes that Conyers did not meet
the legal requirements to be on the ballot, but Leitman ruled that "There
is evidence that their failure to comply with the Registration Statute was the
result of good faith mistakes and that they believed they were in compliance
with the statute."
Not shockingly, Leitman gained his seat on the federal bench just
two months ago, as a result of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.)
invoking the so-called nuclear option, where President Obama's nominees can be
confirmed by the Senate without the need to reach a bipartisan consensus on their
worthiness. After surviving the confirmation process with only a partisan
fueled 55-43 vote, Leitman has already paid off for Conyers, one of their
oldest warhorses.
Constitution? Democrats don’t
need a stinking constitution.
Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-judiciary/207236-reids-nuclear-confirmed-judge-ignores-the-law#ixzz333qcCRQF
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
America's Black Robed Pharisees
All bow to America’s black robed Pharisees. These arbiters of social justice have deigned
all of us mere plebeians who’ve just crawled out of the primordial ooze. Why we’re fresh from wiping the mud out of
our eyes. How dare we govern ourselves
by passing state laws that don’t comport to their superior sense of morality? Just who in the hell do we think we are? God doesn’t exist. Federal judges are the supreme beings in today’s
America!
The Associated Press published an article praising
these demigods for striking down States’ constitutional amendments that banned
gay marriage. And what vehicle did this priestly class use to deny a citizen’s right to self-government. Why the 14th Amendment of course.
The 14th Amendment was borne out of war. It was designed to punish those who dared to
proclaim their independence from Northern aggressors. This amendment was used to disenfranchise,
murder and steal property from the vanquished.
The 14th Amendment should be called the Occupier Amendment,
for it was the bayonet that brought obedience.
The equal protection clause was the only noble
clause in the Occupier Amendment. It was
designed to ensure ex-slaves and their progeny were granted all rights of citizenship
and treated the same as anyone else under state laws. But of course, federal judges bastardized
the text and the intent of the 14thAmendment. Now, it means anything an activist judge
wants it to mean.
One must ask why this amendment is still on the books. The Civil War ended 150 years ago. Surely, it has outlived its usefulness. The answer is the 14th is the only
vehicle that allows unelected agents of the federal government to subvert the 9th
and 10th Amendments of the Constitution, and marginalize those who
believe in a limited central government.
One of our
biggest threats to liberty and property is a rogue judiciary. The Anti-Federalist believed unelected and
unaccountable judges would trample upon States, while concentrating power unto
a centralized government. These oracles were truly prophetic.
Source:
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Barack Obama: The Participation Trophy President
This is what this country has become. I wonder how many cabinet meetings this guy has been to. Obama should get a participation trophy for being president of the United States with an MVP for being mad about his administrations incompetence.
Absolutely, unbelievable.
Federal Bureaucracy Has Become Our HAL9000
The federal bureaucracy is a living organism. It breeds, feeds and shits on the American
people. And like any animal, once
wounded and cornered, it will bare its teeth and attack anyone who threatens
it.
Do we need any more proof these bureaucracies are
out of control after the shenanigans of the IRS, BLM, EPA, ATF and OSHA. These government agencies know who their
friends are, and the Tea Party isn’t one of them, hence the persecution of
freedom loving citizens.
Democrats believe they are in control of these
agencies and are protecting them. After
all, they are, for the moment, doing their political dirty work. But like HAL9000 in the movie, 2001: A Space
Odyssey, this bureaucratic organism will eventually become too powerful to
control. And sooner or later they will
deny access to their stunned overlords.
Monday, May 19, 2014
Little Rascals - Charge of the Light Brigade
The Little Rascals used to be on every Sunday morning when I was kid. To this day, I laugh my ass off watching these skits. Can you imagine having firecrackers in school in this day and age? Alfalfa would've been beaten and arrested for being a terrorist.
Trail of History - Torance Family
The Torance family (there are various spellings of this name) were a prominent, colonial family in North Carolina's Piedmont region. They were patriots in the American Revolution. Their property became a gathering place for militia during General Cornwallis pursuit of General Greene's Continental Army. Tarleton's cavalry sent them running before they could form a line of battle.
Some of the oldest cemeteries in the Piedmont have a Torance buried in them. James Galbraith Torrance, son of the original proprietor, is laid to rest in Hopewell Church Cemetery off of Beatties Ford Rd. For a brief history click the links below.
Source:
http://library.uncc.edu/manuscript/ms0087
A Napoleon Marshal is Buried in Rural North Carolina?
I discovered something astonishing while reading a
history of a prominent family in North Carolina’s Piedmont region. The Torance family (there are various
spellings of this name) settled in northern Mecklenburg County in the mid 1700’s.
They were prosperous business owners.
And as you can expect, success provides amenities. One of those amenities is having a private
tutor. That teacher was Marshal Ney.
Peter Stewart Ney served in Napoleons Grand
Army. He was considered “The bravest of
the brave,” and one of Napoleon’s favorites.
Marshal Ney was in charge of the rear-guard during the retreat from
Russia in the War of 1812. He also led
the disastrous cavalry charge at the battle of Waterloo. After Napoleon’s defeat, Marshal Ney was
executed for treason via firing squad; so they say. Here is picture of his grave in France:
Here is his grave at Third Creek Presbyterian Church
in Rowan County, North Carolina:
Two graves for one man, such is the legend of
Marshal Peter Stewart Ney.
Source:
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Liberals Demand Political Religious Test for Public Office
The U.S. Constitution specifically prohibits
religious test as a qualifier for obtaining public office. However, liberals have a completely different
form of religion than what our founding fathers envisioned. Political ideology is the Democratic Party’s
god. They have deemed it heresy to have
a different point of view from them. And
they want to silence us. One of their
global warming priests has made that proposal.
Truth Revolt reported the following:
Chris Hayes thinks
politicians who don't accept global warming theory or gay marriage should be
disqualified from holding office.
Soon, these totalitarians will have dissenters
wearing identifiers on their clothing, and then ship us off to some dark corner
of the world in order to be liquidated.
Liberals to Demand Voter ID for Children's Choice Book Awards?
Last night, Rush Limbaugh won the Children's Choice
Book Award for best author, and libtard heads are exploding all around the
country. First, they tried to have his
nomination revoked. After that failed,
they accused the Children’s Book Council of being shills for right-wing
ideology. Now, after Mr. Limbaugh won,
they are making accusations of vote fixing.
Here is an excerpt from the Associated Press:
Nominees
for best author are determined by how many copies their books sell, while the
winners are supposedly picked by kids, who vote online. But executive director
Robin Adelson of the Children's Book Council and Every Child a Reader,
nonprofit organizations that co-founded the awards seven years ago,
acknowledged Thursday that adults could easily vote and vote multiple times, a
problem not uncommon for Internet competitions.
"Every
one of our finalists gets fake votes every year," Adelson told The
Associated Press. "We like to think that's the enthusiasm of adults who
love children's books."
Adelson
cited three ways that people can vote: a widget that can be embedded in such popular
kids' websites as www.poptropica.com, a link on the awards website
(http://ccbookawards.com) that allows individuals to vote and a link on the
awards site that allows teachers, librarians and others to submit bulk votes on
behalf of their institution.
Adelson said
she doubted that parents or other grown-ups were voting through Poptropica, but
acknowledged the awards site was more likely to be manipulated. An individual
voter can vote multiple times and does not need to provide a verifiable email
address or proof of his or her age. Bulk voters are required to submit a
verifiable email, but there is no guarantee that a given teacher or librarian
is really expressing the wishes of others.
So what’s
next? Are liberals going to demand
children provide voter ID’s in order to participate in future awards. I wouldn’t put it past them. In the meantime, they consider it sacrilege to hold the same kind of standards when electing public officials.
USDA Prepares for Armed Livestock Rebellion
Why does the USDA need submachine guns with 30
round clips? Has livestock risen up in
armed rebellion? Or could it be, these
weapons have a more nefarious purpose?
According to the
solicitation, the Dept. of Agriculture wants the guns to have an
"ambidextrous safety, semiautomatic or 2 round [bursts] trigger group,
Tritium night sights front and rear, rails for attachment of flashlight (front
under fore group) and scope (top rear), stock collapsible or folding," and
a "30 rd. capacity" magazine.
They also want the submachine
guns to have a "sling," be "lightweight," and have an
"oversized trigger guard for gloved operation."
The solicitation directs
"all responsible and/or interested sources...[to] submit their company
name, point of contact, and telephone." Companies that submit information
in a "timely" fashion "shall be considered by the agency for
contact to determine weapon suitability."
More evidence the federal bureaucracies are turning on the citizenry.
Minimum Wage Hike is a Pay Cut for the Middle Class
Again, the geniuses in Washington D.C. are trying
to impose their will on our nation’s economy, this time by imposing a minimum
wage increase. They believe it will help
the working poor, but in reality, it’s a pay cut for the middle class. I was unable to find a think tank, or a
pundit that could articulate this truth.
Instead, I found a letter to Asbury Park Press’ editor:
To quote Walter Kelly, the
creator of the comic strip Pogo, "We have met the enemy and he is
us."
Once again we have shot ourselves
in the foot with the passage of a N.J. constitutional amendment that not only
raises the minimum wage by 14 percent but will automatically be increased each
January in accordance with the Consumer Price Index. Unskilled labor will now
get automatic yearly wage increases without qualification.
This is a slap in the face to
skilled workers and middle managers who not only may not get any raise, but may
be asked or forced to make concessions on benefits or even take pay cuts.
Gov. Christie made a compromise
offer of a phased-in wage increase that would have been acceptable to business,
but the left-leaning Democrats would not have it, knowing that the uninformed
electorate would take the bait.
And who will pay for this pay
raise? Not the rich or the ruling class, as they were the ones orchestrating
it. Not businesses, as they will surely pass the expense on to consumers. Then
who, pray tell? Why, the usual suspects: the hard-working middle class, whose
members will become just that much poorer. And of course, the entry-level
workers, mostly teens, who will lose jobs the amendment was purportedly
intended to enhance.
It's just another case of the
redistribution of wealth, with the exception of the masterminds, i.e., the
ruling-class 1-percenters.
James Spickard
Tuckerton
As always, the citizenry demonstrates the
superiority of their wisdom over our establishment overlords.
U.S. has Become Dumping Ground for Third World
The United States has become a dumping ground for
the third world. We’ve become the toilet
for our neighbors’ dogs. The world’s
refuse has found out they can do any damn thing they want in our county without
consequence, and that includes murder. The
Washington Times reported the latest outrage by the Obama administration:
Immigration officials
knowingly released dozens of murderers and thousands of drunken drivers back
into the U.S. in 2013, according to Obama
administration statistics that could undercut the president’s
argument that he is trying to focus on the most serious criminals in his
immigration enforcement.
Among the 36,000
immigrants whom U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released from custody
last year there were 116 with convictions for homicide, 43 for negligent
manslaughter, 14 for voluntary manslaughter and one with a conviction
classified by ICE as “homicide-willful kill-public official-gun.”
The immigrants were in
deportation proceedings, meaning ICE was trying to remove them from the country
and could have held them in detention but released them anyway, according to
the Center for Immigration Studies, which published the numbers Monday. The Washington
Times also obtained the data.
It’s bad enough both parties
have conferred martyrdom status upon these invaders, but to unleash an army of
predators on the citizenry is unconscionable.
It just goes to show you how little regard the Washington D.C.
establishment has for the American people.
Last year, 2,999 productive
citizens renounced their U.S. citizenship, which is a record high. We are replacing them with low-skilled
illiterates who have the reproductive cycle of rabbits. Thanks Washington. You’re a bunch of geniuses.
Monday, May 12, 2014
Public Defender: Black Community Infested with Illiterate Sociopaths
We’ve all heard the mantra from liberals that they
want a national discussion on race relations.
Eric Holder, our own U.S. Attorney General, accused Americans of being
cowards when it comes to this issue. In
all honesty, they don’t want to have that discussion.
American Renaissance published an article entitled,
Confessions of a Public Defender. I’m
here to say this is the most damning piece I’ve ever read about the black
community. The author is using a pen
name. I would too if I had written
it. The only problem with using
pseudonyms is it allows the critics to question the veracity of the work.
However, with that being said, this article answers
some of the questions that plague our inner-cities, prisons, government welfare
programs, and society in general.
Basically Michael Smith, the author, accuses the black community of
being infested with illiterate sociopaths.
Now mind you, Mr. Smith isn’t a flame throwing right-winger. He is a professed liberal. You can read the article in its entirety by
clicking the link below. To get a
flavor, here is the conclusion:
I am a liberal. I believe that those of us who are able
to produce abundance have a moral duty to provide basic food, shelter, and
medical care for those who cannot care for themselves. I believe we have this
duty even to those who can care for themselves but don’t. This world view
requires compassion and a willingness to act on it.
My experience has taught me that
we live in a nation in which a jury is more likely to convict a black defendant
who has committed a crime against a white. Even the dullest of blacks know
this. There would be a lot more black-on-white crime if this were not the case.
However, my experience has also
taught me that blacks are different by almost any measure to all other
people. They cannot reason as well. They cannot communicate as well. They
cannot control their impulses as well. They are a threat to all who cross their
paths, black and non-black alike.
I do not know the solution to
this problem. I do know that it is wrong to deceive the public. Whatever
solutions we seek should be based on the truth rather than what we would prefer
was the truth. As for myself, I will continue do my duty to protect the rights
of all who need me.
If Democrats want to talk about race relations in
this country, they can start with this article.
Delegates Gathering in Indiana to Amend the Constitution
It seems we are reaching a tipping point. Americans have had enough of the Washington
D.C. establishment running roughshod over the U.S. Constitution and our
unalienable rights. People are beginning
to recognize that the solution will never come out of Washington D.C. That town is surrounded by political grafters
enriching themselves at taxpayer expense.
Their suburbs have been deemed the richest in the country.
Delegates are scheduled to gather in Indiana for the
sole purpose of amending the Constitution:
The
June 12-13 gathering of The Mount Vernon Assembly will focus on shaping the
rules and procedures for a Convention of the States.
Indiana
Senate President David Long tells The Times of Munster that the group
won't propose any amendments this time.
Two-thirds
of state legislatures must ask Congress to call a Convention of the States to
propose amendments. The amendments can be added to the Constitution without
congressional approval so long they are ratified by three-fourths of the states.
Thank God the founders included a provision so the
States can have an ability to put a check on this abusive government. They were truly the greatest and wisest
generation this country has ever produced.
Republican Establishment Spins Good News over Tea Party Defeat
Liberal rags love to publish op-ed pieces by RINO’s. For almost a year, the Charlotte Disturber
has featured Michael Gerson, a National Journal contributor and notorious
establishment apologist, in their Sunday editions. These two peas have a pod in common, they
love bashing Tea Partiers.
Gerson portrays these patriots as a bunch of
petulant children stomping their feet and demanding their Constitution. When reading his articles, you get a sense
that Tea Partiers need to have their asses spanked for demanding a bunch of
nonsense. Indeed, after last week’s
primaries, Mr. Gerson is outright giddy over their defeat. Here is an excerpt from his latest:
Tea Party
leaders managed to confuse petulant, childish, counterproductive legislative
tactics with constitutional fidelity. And Republican leaders finally realized
that some Tea Party agendas — list building, fundraising, presidential primary
positioning — were inconsistent with their own.
The
government shutdown may turn out to have been the high-water mark — the
Cemetery Ridge — of the Tea Party movement. In the aftermath, House Speaker
John Boehner declared that Tea Party groups had “lost all credibility,” and
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell promised that the party would “crush”
outsiders targeting incumbents.
We had a government shutdown? I didn’t notice, except for the Park Service
harassing WWII vets on the national mall.
And wasn’t it reported that only one federal employee was laid off? Again, I ask, what shut down?
Mr. Gerson believes we children need to be
governed. I would say the more apt word is
managed. Here is his condescending
parting shot:
The main
problem with the Tea Party movement is not tactical or tonal but ideological.
Its leaders quote the Constitution to end political discussions: Where do you
find the Environmental Protection Agency or the National Institutes of Health
or Social Security in the language of the document? Most of the Founding
Fathers (particularly the Federalist ones) saw the Constitution as the
beginning of a political discussion: How does a free nation employ this
remarkable structure to confront its problems and achieve its greatness?
Some
quote the Constitution as a substitute for a policy agenda. It is easier, after
all, to memorize than to govern. But a majority political party will convincingly
address public needs: routine educational failure, increasing higher-education
costs, gaps in health coverage and the like. This is what self-government under
the Constitution looks like.
Yes,
the GOP needs electable candidates. It also needs for those candidates to have
something useful and hopeful to say.
Mr.
Gerson, here is something useful to say.
Congress has abdicated their
constitutional responsibilities. We have
federal bureaucracies running the show, and our elected representatives are the
dog and pony show. I’m not blowing tea
party smoke. The Wall Street Journal
published the following:
Washington
set a new record in 2013 by issuing final rules consuming 26,417 pages in the
Federal Register. While plenty of government employees deserve credit for this
milestone, leadership matters. And by this measure President Obama has never
been surpassed in the Oval Office.
The
latest rule-making tally comes from the Competitive Enterprise Institute's
Wayne Crews, who on April 29 will publish his annual review of federal
regulation in "Ten Thousand Commandments." This is important work
because politicians and the media treat regulation as a largely cost-free
public good. Mr. Crews knows better.
Congress
may be mired in gridlock, but the federal bureaucracy is busier than ever. In
2013 the Federal Register contained 3,659 "final" rules, which means
they now must be obeyed, and 2,594 proposed rules on their way to becoming
orders from political headquarters.
The Federal Register finished
2013 at 79,311 pages, the fourth highest total in history. That didn't match
President Obama's 2010 all-time record of 81,405 pages. But Mr. Obama can
console himself by noting that of the five highest Federal Register page
counts, four have occurred on his watch. The other was 79,435 pages under
President George W. Bush in 2008.
How’s that for something useful to say,
Mr. Establishment Republican? Here’s
another universal truth, you insiders aren’t going to do a damn thing about
it. Try and spin some hope out of that.
Saturday, May 10, 2014
A Mother's Day Remembrance
My mother passed away a couple of years ago. One of her great loves was country
music. I’ll never forget one album that
she enjoyed in the 70’s, and for some reason it stuck with me. Narvel Felts has a unique voice, and he puts
his all in it, as evidenced in this video.
Here’s to you, Mom.
Love always.
Dept of Justice Displays Contempt for Congress During IRS Hearing
I have been blogging about the utter contempt the
Obama administration, and basically the whole damn federal bureaucracy has for
our elected representatives and by extension we the people. Needless to say, it is astonishing. The Daily Mail published the following:
The acting deputy U.S.
attorney general in charge of overseeing 'public integrity' prosecutions
testified Friday that he doesn't know who's in charge of the criminal
investigation of Lois Lerner, the former IRS official at the center of the
tea-party targeting scandal.
David O'Neil, whose job
atop the DOJ's criminal division puts him in charge of public corruption
prosecutions, told Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan that he also doesn't know
how many prosecutors are assigned to the case, or how many attorneys from his
division are working on it.
Asked to identify the
lead agent in the Lerner investigation, O'Neil would only answer, 'I'm sure
that we can provide that information to you.'
The House has been
asking for this information for over a year! In order to get the full monty of the
condescending attitude Mr. O’Neil has for Congress, you need to watch the video
below. It is truly reprehensible.
Pope Francis Encourages Governments to Break God's Law
When the College of Cardinals selected a
third-worlder as their pope, they should expect third-world economic policies
and ideology. Pope Francis hails from
Argentina. Argentina is an economic basket
case. When a private individual has a
naval ship seized because of a debt; that should raise some eyebrows. It should’ve caused a pope to rethink his
economic ideology.
Pope Francis is a perfect example that you can take
a person out of the third world, but you can’t take the third world out of the
person. The Great Leveler encouraged
the world to adopt a Latin American economic model. The Associated Press reported the following:
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis called Friday for
governments to redistribute wealth and benefits to the poor in a new spirit of
generosity to help curb the "economy of exclusion" that is taking
hold today.
Francis made the appeal during a speech to U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the heads of major U.N. agencies who met in
Rome this week.
Latin America's first pope has frequently lashed out at
the injustices of capitalism and the global economic system. On Friday, Francis
called for the United Nations to promote a "worldwide ethical
mobilization" of solidarity with the poor.
He said a more equal form of economic progress can be had
through "the legitimate redistribution of economic benefits by the state,
as well as indispensable cooperation between the private sector and civil
society."
In order to achieve this so-called justice for the
poor, six of the Ten Commandments must be broken. Let’s start with the tenth and work our way
up:
Thou shalt not covet thy
neighbors’ house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his
manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is
thy neighbour’s.
In order to redistribute others wealth
you have to covet and confiscate. Does
that not break God’s law?
Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbour
.
In order to confiscate your neighbors’ property, you
must bear false witness. You must
dehumanize those who have, or, is perceived to have wealth so as to make
seizure more palatable.
Thou shalt not steal.
Government seizure of one’s property in
order to give to another is nothing more than legalized theft.
Thou shalt not kill.
Chances are some people are going to resist having
their property taken from them. Some
people are going to have their lives destroyed.
Some people are going to get killed.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land
which the Lord thy God giveth thee
If Governments confiscate the wealth
of others, how are the victims going to look after their families? In order to honor thy father and thy mother, one
must have the means to support them. It
won’t be possible with this great leveling Pope Francis is advocating.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord
thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him
guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
I’m sure there will be a lot of swearing when
government thugs take what is not theirs in order to give to
third-worlders. Breaking this
commandment is inevitable.
Instead of addressing the real problems that cause
poverty, such as corrupt governments, failed economic policies, and unreliable
energy sources, people like Pope Francis encourage governments to break God’s
laws. Instead of emulating the most
prosperous countries, it is much easier to drag them down into the morass that
is the third-world.
Friday, May 9, 2014
Time to Regulate the Regulators
Armed government thugs confiscating and destroying private
property; corrupt judges and officers of the court jackbooting the citizenry under the pretence
of law; eastern elites thumbing their noses at the downtrodden all the while enjoying
their ill-gotten gains. Sounds a lot like
what’s happening in America today, doesn’t it? What I described happened in the 1760’s in
North Carolina’s Piedmont region.
Pioneers
began to settle this area in the 1740’s & 50’s. These hearty, industrious, and religious settlers
scratched out a living as farmers in what then was a frontier. Soon thereafter, the predators showed
up. Land agents for the Crown and a lord
proprietor, who refused to sell back his interest to the king, were sent to
survey and force these squatters to pay for their farms and subsequent taxes,
which included the improvements they made on the land.
Hard
currency was in short supply. The only
people who had money were government officials, or those who had already
established their wealth in other colonies.
Many of these officials were paid by fees they collected. Eventually, these
functionaries discovered it was more profitable to confiscate farms and sell it
to their friends and/or, force these debtors to work their lands.
Eventually,
these farmers had enough. They named
themselves Regulators and began a rebellion.
They beat judges, sheriffs, and their lawyer hirelings. The most offensive ones had their houses burned
to the ground.
East
coast North Carolinians were frightened that these angry farmers would
eventually march on the capitol, which at that time was New Bern. They hurriedly passed laws that addressed the
grievances of these pissed off, backwoods ruffians. It was too late. These folks had lost all confidence in the
rule of law, especially when the Regulators sent one of their own to represent
them in the General Assembly, only to have him drummed out and arrested on
trumped up charges of libel. Armed
conflict was inevitable.
Governor
Tryon, along with North Carolina elites, assembled the militia and marched to
Hillsborough. They suppressed the
rebellion; hung the leaders they captured; confiscated weapons; burned down
known Regulator farms, and forced thousands to swear loyalty oaths.
Here is
the irony: those same elites who brutally
suppressed the Regulators later became revolutionaries in the War for Independence. Apparently, it was alright for agents of
government to violate the inalienable rights of the great unwashed, but when
the Crown abused them, it was time to throw off the shackles.
We are
basically witnessing the same kind of abuses in today’s America. Even though we haven’t seen mass armed
rebellion against the political elites and their army of bureaucrats, we,
however, are witnessing a suppression of Tea Party dissent.
We can
expect change in Washington D.C. when the federal bureaucracy turns on the
elites. We are already witnessing
federal bureaucrats disrespect our elected representatives. Someday they will have had enough and they
too will rebel.
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