By the way, to those of you younguns out there, THIS is nothing new. You saw the scans of the pamphlets I posted from 9 years ago, right?
Well this is old hat for me, and for the rest of you old farts and geezers.
Shortly after 0911, the same crowd that plagued us during the 90s, trying to label us all terrorists, were tugging on the federal coattails and pointing at anything conservative or "right", trying to use the federal gov as their weapon.
Here is a link for more background on this. The antics of the SPLC and ADL go way back.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Flag-...onstitutionally-minded+citizens...-a081414253
Grigg has it down right with a revamp of the concept and further history.
http://www.rightsourceonline.com/welch/pastnews_c.cfm?rank=3744
However I have the original JBS article from 2001 saved in my evidence folder and can put the text in here if needed when I return to the Jeep cave.
So there is nothing here that I didn't expect. Many of you might be too young to recall how they tried to blame OKC on "right wing radio". This is laughable considering what a disapating shill Rush Limbaugh is.
What is going on here is this: each state wants DHS funding. To do that, they must pander to the feds. The feds are run by the same people who would consider a Christian with a gun a terrorist but never noticed how ELF and other eco nazis would openly pass around instructions on how to burn down dealerships and labs.
When I say "nothing new" I mean it. Since BOTH SIDES of the political spectrum are all about using the power of the state as their weapon against people they don't like, the table is turning. This is why I spent 8 years losing friends as I tried to warn them that the powers they gleefully gave Bush will be used against them later. I got accused of being a leftist, unpatriotic, etc. I never had friends in the other camp.
So in 2000, the "right" took the One Ring and put it on, thinking they could do good, but through them, as a metaphor for the power of the state, it did evil and lots of it. Now the "left" has the One Ring, and rather than destroy it, they put it on, and the process continues. No matter who the target is, or the reason, the results are the same: more evil (in reality it's more government which can be the same thing).
Paulians, Reganites (the few that are left), the true libertarians - all having a value for the original concept of liberty - are the most dangerous. They have the ability to take that ring to Mt Doom and destroy it. To us, to me, this election was like watching "Alien vs. Predator".
I have to give the democrats some credit however. You know at least what you get with that crowd. It was Bush who tripled the size of the ATF and installed most of the police state apparatus we have today. The concept started way back, of course. But that's the difference. Obama is anti-liberty as much as Bush was, Clinton was, Bush 1, etc.
At least now I don't have to lose friends when I try to warn people.
