Around 1000 AD, a trader from Iceland, either Bjarni Herjolfsson or someone else, missed his home port and wound up in North America - likely Canada. He took one look at the inhospitable coast and swapped ends, heading for home.
When Bjarni reached port, he got loaded and started bragging about this new land he'd found. The story reached Leif Eriksson, no slouch for adventure, who promptly either bought or stole (with compensation) Bjarni's boat, raised a crew of 35, and headed out to see if there was any truth to the story.
There was, and cutting right to the chase, Eriksson discovered North America, and to prove it, President LBJ declared the October 9th to be Leif Eriksson Day. LBJ did that was back in 1964.
Some 500 years after Eriksson's grand adventure, a demented Italian pseudo navigator and explorer named Columbus got some much needed financing from Spain. He put together a group of three ships, impressed a crew, and shoved off from Palos, Spain for parts unknown. Some ten weeks later he slammed into the Bahamas - probably around October 12th, 1492.
He brought back various trade goods, native Americans, and syphilis - which devastated Europe during the renaissance. We celebrate Columbus's achievements on Columbus Day, which is observed on the second Monday of October. It falls on the same date as Thanksgiving in Canada, the Canadians being thankful that Columbus didn't discover them.
Time passes, as time is wont to do.
In April of 1775 war broke out. It was We the People versus the Lobsterbacks and brandy slurping inbreds of Jolly Old. We the People kicked some ass, but it wasn't any fun, and it wasn't easy. Those that survived were both tough and blessed.
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare that the colonies were now independent from the British Empire, we having won.
On July 4, 1776, 56 delegates from the thirteen colonies got together and signed the Declaration of Independence.
The thirteen colonies are: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
The signers are:
Delaware:
George Read, Caesar Rodney, Thomas McKean
Pennsylvania:
George Clymer, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, John Morton, Benjamin Rush, George Ross, James Smith, James Wilson, George Taylor
Massachusetts:
John Adams, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
New York:
Lewis Morris, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, William Floyd
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
Virginia:
Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Jefferson, George Wythe, Thomas Nelson, Jr.
North Carolina:
William Hooper, John Penn, Joseph Hewes
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Arthur Middleton, Thomas Lynch, Jr., Thomas Heyward, Jr.
New Jersey:
Abraham Clark, John Hart, Francis Hopkinson, Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon
Connecticut:
Samuel Huntington, Roger Sherman, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
Maryland:
Charles Carroll, Samuel Chase, Thomas Stone, William Paca
These were tough men who valued freedom, and were finished with the tyranny of England. No hard feelings and all, but enough was enough.
Now lets skip ahead a few years to 2020.
The complete Internal Revenue Code is more than 24 megabytes in length, and contains more than 3.4 million words; printed 60 lines to the page, it would fill more than 7500 letter-size pages.
Hate groups such as Black Lives Matter, New Black Panthers, Black Separatists, Nation of Islam, and Antifa conduct "peaceful protests" that leave the protest area in shambles. Property is destroyed, stores are looted and burned, people hurt, others are killed. Monuments are defaced and destroyed while the local government gives its tacit approval, and in some cases supports the violent insurgents. Tent cities of so-called homeless fill public parks, and the city government refuses to remove them.
What is the US government capable of? I'll cite only one case, which is anecdotal, but it exemplifies what people are capable of. I'm referring to Darren Rainey, a man that these so-called peaceful protestors have never heard of, but whose death surely would be something to protest.
Death of Darren Rainey
Darren Rainey (January 12, 1962 – June 23, 2012) died at the Dade Correctional Institution (Dade CI) in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, on June 23, 2012.Rainey was in prison and was mentally ill. He defecated in his cell, then smeared feces all over the walls and himself. Guards put him in a shower, which was designed so that the prisoner had no control over the water temperature - which was set at 180°F (water boils at 212°F). The guards left him in there for two hours, and he was quite literally cooked alive.
Two officers on duty at the time of the death later received promotions.
And now we have this bill, HR 5717, which seeks to take away our Second Amendment right.
H.R.5717 - Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act of 2020
From the site, this bill:
- generally requires individuals to obtain a license to purchase, acquire, or possess a firearm or ammunition;
- raises the minimum age—from 18 years to 21 years—to purchase firearms and ammunition;
- establishes new background check requirements for firearm transfers between private parties;
- requires law enforcement agencies to be notified following a firearms-related background check that results in a denial;
- creates a statutory process for a family or household member to petition a court for an extreme risk protection order to remove firearms from an individual who poses a risk of committing violence;
- restricts the import, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of semiautomatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices;
- restricts the manufacture, sale, transfer, purchase, or receipt of ghost guns (i.e., guns without serial numbers);
- makes trafficking in firearms a stand-alone criminal offense;
- requires federally licensed gun dealers to submit and annually certify compliance with a security plan to detect and deter firearm theft;
- removes limitations on the civil liability of gun manufacturers;
- allows the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue safety standards for firearms and firearm components;
- establishes a community violence intervention grant program; and
- promotes research on firearms safety and gun violence prevention.
Co-sponsors:
- Rep. Kennedy, Joseph P., III [D-MA-4]
- Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5]
- Rep. Brown, Anthony G. [D-MD-4]
- Rep. Morelle, Joseph D. [D-NY-25]
- Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
- Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12]
- Rep. Keating, William R. [D-MA-9]
- Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
- Rep. Moulton, Seth [D-MA-6]
- Rep. Pressley, Ayanna [D-MA-7]
- Rep. Trahan, Lori [D-MA-3]
- Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]
- Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
- Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-1]
- Rep. Clark, Katherine M. [D-MA-5]
- Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-9]
- Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-16]
- Rep. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Note that they are all Democrats.
Now think about the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence, and think about the men who signed it. They believed in the freedom to assemble, but they would never tolerate an outfit like BLM or Antifa. Nor would they tolerate a tax code like the one we have today. And as for this latest attempt to take away our firearms, the sponsor and co-sponsors would likely be strung up in the town square and horsewhipped, or be challenged to a personal duel - where they would meet an ignominious end at the point of a blade or a bullet to the boiler house.
The founding fathers did, in fact, imagine these things were possible, and to protect the populace against them they wrote the Bill of Rights. Because certainly there would be no way in the world any group of miscreants could weasel their way past the Bill of Rights.
Could they.
3 comments:
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to declare that the colonies were now independent from the British Empire, we having won.
What was all the fighting for after that? :)
Constitutions and bills of rights and freedoms are just so much paper, Jack. They won’t work for 85 IQ vibrants, or backstabbers, carpet baggers, communists, degenerates or psychotics. The men killing our countries won’t stop. Why should they? They don’t have morals or ethics, and violence is just fine - if THEY do it and THEY profit from it.
They will have to be stopped, probably by us or We The People. Up here in Canada, given where this is all going... I’m okay with it. You can’t run a country like this.
And the same to you, sir!
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