Boston – National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed 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, the Massachusetts Governor declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement.
The Governor 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.
The Governor 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 met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the government’s plans.
During a tense standoff in the Lexington 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 over-matched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat.
The Governor 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 fellow Americans, is how the American Revolution began, April 20, 1775.
Those would be the “right wing extremists” opposed to the oppression of big government that we are told are the greatest danger to this country— according to Obama and Hillary.
That’s excellent, Stucky. Remember when the DHS was just starting to get warmed up? Remember how a .gov official said that police are told to look for anyone having a copy of the Constitution in their car or the Bill of Rights? That was considered a possible example of a right wing extremist.
If my memory serves me, I recall that they also were told to pay particular interest on anyone who had a roadmap and binoculars and who are observed looking at government buildings.
Sir John Harrington (August 4, 1561 – November 20, 1612) was a courtier, author, and scientist who said the famous quote:
Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Would it be relevant to point out that although history my never repeat, it often rhymes?
No doubt with the likes of Obama Clinton Pelosi and the RHINOS history could easily repeat itself . I believe the quote is ” Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it”
Sadly it will not start in Boston next time.
Bob.
Hey, Bob, maybe it will. Imagine some feds trying to disarm some bank robbing Townies. The Townies would say “FAAAACK YEEOOUUU. GET THE FACK OUTTA MY NAYBAHOOD, YOU BUNCHA QUEEAHS.”
The Feds pull their little Glocks and Sigs and the Townies light their asses up with M16s stolen from an armory in 1977.
It could happen. 😉
Sure is gonna be interesting to see how all this plays out. The Republican Party denies trump the nomination, nominates Romney instead. Trump runs third party and pulls about 10% of the vote, Hillary wins in a landslide. After replacing Scalia and another retiring(or dead) Supreme Court judge, she enacts a sweeping gun ban coupled with Australia style mandatory buy backs. If what happened in Connecticut is any indication, something like 90% of people won’t comply. Not that far fetched to think the above may happen again.
This is a great allegory, thanks Stucky.
The current admin has seen the most mass shootings in history, some claim them to be false flags, but they are all used politically to move the argument forwards.
This generation is not going to see any confiscations, but we are already seeing a cultural war on the 2nd amendment by our own gov, the one we allegedly elected and consent to.
The next generation will live in a world where gun ownership is scene as unnecessary, as there will be no places left to use a gun in the megacities of the east coast. Out west, may be where Stucky’s allegory might play out.
There will be attempts to cross link ownership to all sorts of govt. benefits, and so, grandma will take dead grandpas shooting irons down to the local cop shop and turn them in for a bump in her SS benifits, rather than letting her children inherit.
It will be a slow restriction over time, a planned shortage of ammo, attempts to register ammo buys, laws to make passing guns to next generation illegal or registered, this is how it will happen.
I’m glad you enjoyed it, as I enjoyed your commentary.
However, I must give credit where credit is due. I did not write the article. It was a copy&paste … the link is at the end of the page under “Source”.
For every citizens protection from gov tyranny every man woman and child must own a gun by law of the land or secede