They Take the Second Amendment First and the First Amendment Second

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter

They Take the Second Amendment First and the First Amendment Second

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We have talked a lot about the liberal assault on our right as American citizens to keep and bear arms for the defense of ourselves, our families, our communities, and our Constitution, but it is a mistake to think of a disarmed population as their desired end-state. No, that’s merely the first step toward the subjugation of the Normals. What they want is not only for us to be disarmed, but to be silenced.

They are not going to stop with the Second Amendment. Next, they are going to move to finish off the First Amendment.

They don’t want you to speak freely.

They don’t want you to have access to a free press.

They don’t want you to practice your religion as you see fit.

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And when you are disarmed and silenced, and you are stripped of any god but government – the government they control absolutely and forever – then they will have achieved their dream. You will no longer be a citizen; you will be a serf.

We can imagine what an America without our rights would look like, and it is really bad.

Oh, that’s crazy talk.

Really? Let’s look across the ocean and see what’s happening there. The British have kindly given us a preview. They allowed themselves to be disarmed, but why would they need guns? Britain is totally safe – except London just stumbled past New York in terms of violent crime. Oh, and it has an epidemic of knife violence. And acid attacks. But on the plus side, the decent people are helpless.

In the view of the elite, that is a plus. When you are helpless, you need them, and you are compliant.

But at least they have freedom of speech . . . except no, they don’t. In recent weeks, some guy calling himself Count Dankula was convicted of a crime for saying something.

For saying something.

It was a joke, and a tasteless one, but he now faces jail for speaking words. Think about that. And the police agencies in a land that used to be a bulwark of freedom and human rights are on the case, tweeting warnings to others who might say something that offends the elite’s sensibilities that the bobbies are watching.

George Orwell would be all, “See, told ya!” if he was alive, except he’d probably be in the slammer too for saying things that are illegal to say.

Let’s review: In once-Great Britain, there are things that are illegal to say.

But not here at home. Not in America. Why, that could never happen here. Liberals certainly don’t want to limit your speech, just like they don’t want to take your guns.

Baloney. The left is intent on taking away your right to speak freely.

Take a gander at our college campuses if you want a spoiler into what America will look like in 20 years if these aspiring Castros and Chavezes get their way.

Try saying what you want on a college campus. Try saying something that dissents from the SJW gospel pushed by the pierced, tatted-up screaming weirdos that the gutless administrators cater to. State the obvious, that there are two genders, not 183 of them, or refuse to use ridiculous “gender-neutral” pronouns like “xir” and “xip.” See what happens. Do you think hugging happens, or do you think violent, unhinged retribution against the wrongthinker happens?

Let’s not even talk about due process in the kampus kangaroo kourts, because there’s nothing to talk about. Academic “justice” does not mean an examination of the facts and evidence, with the accused offered the chance to provide a meaningful defense that includes the right to cross-examine the witnesses against him. Yes “him,” because “SJW justice,” is not remotely like justice. It is, instead, a hierarchy of fake oppression narratives that dictates that the accused must be punished because of the difference between who he is and who the accuser is. Guess who is at the bottom and presumed guilty?

Remember, all this is not just tolerated by liberals. They think it is good that your voice is silenced. They think it is good that you can have your life destroyed not because of what you did but because of your sex or race or beliefs. This oppression is not a bug; to them, this oppression is a feature.

And it’s spreading off campus, into the real world, like gangrene. It’s not as far along as the campaign to leave you defenseless in the face of Democrat-friendly criminals and aspiring Democrat tyrants, but it’s coming. Look at Rosanne Barr, who is hardly a conservative but who dared to buck the elite’s prejudices about Normal people and refused to portray them as hideous, racist buffoons in the reboot of her show. Unforgivably, in the eyes of the liberals, it was a huge hit, thanks to those flyover rubes. So the elite is trying to destroy her.

Look at Laura Ingraham. She said something liberals don’t like, and through their agents in the big corporations – only an idiot believes that corporate America is still dominated by old school Republicans instead of eager Democrat allies – they attempted to annihilate her. And the liberals cheered at the thought that her voice would be silenced – including alleged journalists. There was a time when journalists at least pretended to believe in a free press, but one of the great things about the Age of Donald Trump is how the masks have come off. Liberal journalists hate the idea of free speech, because you Normals might dare presume to use it.

Liberals love the idea of shutting up the opposition. Today, it’s through intimidation. Tomorrow, it’ll be through the government.

It all starts with guns. Liberals hate the idea of you having guns for two reasons. The first is the fact that guns are the tools of free men, and when you have them you have the dignity that comes with the ability to protect your lives and your rights. They want to strip you of that dignity both because doing so will humiliate you and show you who is really the boss, and because they enjoy rubbing your uppity rube noses in your own powerlessness. But of course, you aren’t powerless yet, because regardless of their ridiculous lies about how an armed citizenry can’t possibly pose a military threat to a leftist dictatorship, they know very well that as long as you have your weapons you will never be their slaves.

Once your Second Amendment rights are gone, do you think the liberals will suddenly decide to be more respectful of your First Amendment rights? Or do you think they will accelerate their campaign to strip you of the civil rights that remain the last obstacle to their total control?

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Bob McDoanld
Bob McDoanld

I would have never believed the country would come to this. I am 62yo who grew up with a father that worked in the Pentagon as part of the CIC, predecessor to the CIA, and pulled a little secret service duty before the current structure of the service today. He would continually talk about the red threat and the changes coming and told us all, in the 60’s and early 70’s, that the country would fall in our life time and be taken down from within. Of course we thought he was disturbed, ran our college era of more liberal thoughts and eventually came back to the fold. Sad how true what I thought was craziness as a youth has turned out to be so true.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The Birchers used to say stuff like that.

Turns out they were right.

Martin brundlefly
Martin brundlefly

Joe mccarthy called it.

Jake
Jake

So were the anti-Federalists.

wdg
wdg

Deerfield Mayor Harriet Rosenthal implied the students from the local high school helped sway her decision to bring about the ordinance.

“Enough is enough,” Rosenthal said adding, “Those students are so articulate just like our students. There is no place here for assault weapons.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-06/illinois-town-bypasses-constitution-us-citizens-given-60-days-turn-guns-or-become

This is getting just a bit tiresome….the Rosenthals of the US attacking the Constitution.

anarchyst
anarchyst

She is another example of why (most) women should be excluded from politics. This woman is using her “emotions” to run roughshod over basic human rights.

wdg
wdg

I would guess from the name that this woman is a Jewish woman who knows exactly what she is doing based on a cold, hard, destructive and subversive ideology. This is not your normal female useful idiots who serve as shock troops for the architects of an Orwellian New World Order.

Jake
Jake

wdg; I believe the communist filth Jan Schakowsky is the Congresscritter for Deerfield. If not, she is next door. The people up there are complete loons.
I have to go there tomorrow. Yuck.

wdg
wdg

What I find scary is the disproportionate role that females are playing in the destruction of Western Civilization and European man who created this civilization. And yes, European men created Western Civilization and the modern world. Men and women are complimentary and both need to work together to sustain and build our Civilization. But Marxist feminism using powerful propaganda that promotes an ideology of victim hood and envy, combined with universal suffrage, has weaponized many women. This cannot be allowed to continue and will not continue after the western world is taken back by patriotic citizens, a biologically adaptive culture and civilization is re-established, and the forces of treason and subversion driven from our homelands.

Mark
Mark

wdg,

Yep…good one!

Econman
Econman

I don’t see this attitude as prominently in minority women.

It is strange to see white women leading the charge right over the cliff.

Wip
Wip

Personally, I think more attention should have been paid to wealth/income gap. When people see/believe they are out of the game/economy, they really don’t give a shit what happens. They believe others are getting their comeuppance. Right or wrong, good or bad, like it or not, human nature…

BB

The left will never stop .They want to disarm us and then kill us .They want us dead . Once you realize they are not just other Americans but the enemy that want us gone it changes everything.Was reading just last night about some New Age Witch who said that all Christians in America would have to put in reeducation camps before they can bring in their ” New Age ” .Scary thing is this idiot really believes this.

Jake
Jake

BB; I can’t believe how many people never saw Hitlary saying that if the Catholic Church didn’t change its position on abortion, a Hitlary presidency would finally deal with them once and for all.
I have long stated, these people hate us, want us gone and we have been warned!

Mark
Mark

Hmmm…when Civil War 2 starts she will be shot at the beginning…probably while busy casting a spell.

TPC
TPC

It all starts with guns. America’s guns are the very reason that Right sees more attacks than any other.

The pushback is pervasive, ubiquitous, and International. When other nations have troubles their citizens are reminded that there is still a place on this little blue orb that you can defend yourself lethally, legally, and unassailably.

They hate the idea that any Western nation allows their citizens to be armed because as they strip their own people’s rights, they are forced to come up with increasingly bizarre claims to assure their people that they should never be allowed to defend themselves. “WILD WEST!” “GUN MURDER RATES!” etc.

Thank God for Great Britain and Tommy Robinson. Together they paint such a strong picture of what America’s future would be like without our firearms.

In America if a man tracked down his daughter’s rapists (WHO STILL HAD HER MIND YOU) and wanted to rescue her…one phone call would net him a dozen armed relatives who take care of business. “No go” zones are harder to enforce precisely for the same reason, you are liable to get lit up if you get too frisky. In fact, the only “no go” zones in the USA are government mandated gun free cities where Rights need not apply.

And make no mistake, firearms are a central belief in America. American’s oversees are seen as loud, proud, and (barring east coasters) very polite.

Proud of our guns. Loud because its stupid to sneak up on someone with a gun. Polite, because in our country calling a guy’s wife a cunt is a good way to get introduced to the second amendment.

Guns turn every single American’s citizen’s life into their own micro-state, complete with military.

As the rest of the world turns to shit, and our own does as well, you will see guns and ammo continue to fly off the shelves. The harder they want the 2A, the harder they’ll have to fight to take it.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

Just look at UKistan to see where this process goes when the people are disarmed. Home Secretary Amber Rudd is talking about giving long prison sentences to people who watch unapproved videos on the internet. Meanwhile, thousands of young white girls have been raped and turned into sex slaves, while law enforcement looked on, and neither Theresa May nor Rudd seem to have any problem with that…..

TC
TC

Anyone hear of this? Strange that the nightly news talked about the anti-gun march before during and still every night since, but haven’t said a peep about the pro-2a march. Anyone?
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Iska Waran
Iska Waran

So when is/was it?

TC
TC

All I know is what’s in the image. The group has a farcebook page, so they can’t be all that bright.

wdg
wdg

The US does not have a free, independent and unbiased Main Stream Media (MSM) but a corporate-owned, propaganda and subversive MSM that is waging a war against the American people. It is no surprise, therefore, that the MSM is promoting some demonstrations and suppressing others. Trump knows this which is why he needs to shut down and indict the MSM for treason. This is fully justified based on the definition of treason:
1. the offense of acting to overthrow one’s government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
2. a violation of allegiance to one’s sovereign or to one’s state.
3. the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.

MarshRabbit
MarshRabbit

Treason: 18 U.S. Code § 2381

“Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”

rhs jr
rhs jr

I believe Florida State Law says counties and cities cannot violate state laws, specifically regarding the 2nd Amend. Ex-Citizens (now Subjects) of Communist Territories taken over by revolutionaries and who have lost their Constitutional Rights of self defense should move to a Southern or Western state or start fighting a Counter-Revolutionary Guerilla War against their Communist Tyrant Dictators.

rocky raccoon
rocky raccoon

As another article stated today, it looks like the American population will have to relearn things that we used to know. Like concepts contained in the Articles of Confederation, Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The relearning process will be very painful.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Thank God for the “gun show loophole” so the fuckers don’t know who has the 1-2% of guns that are bought without a background check. That 1-2% makes a difference.

ragman
ragman

Iska is 100% correct! It’s called a private sale and couple that with the 80% build phenomenon we have millions of guns that are below the radar. Not to mention all of the fine family heirlooms handed down from grandpa to dad to sons and daughters. Millions more, no doubt. No record=no registration=no confiscation. And confiscation is what they’re really after, which the are finally beginning to admit publicly. NO, you will never get our guns! Your turn.

Texas Patriot
Texas Patriot

Just be sure to stock up on substantial quantities of ammunition for those below the radar guns. That is where they will try to attack us next!!! And, buy it with cash from a local store. No online purchases!!!

James
James

I agree with the 3 above(3%’s?)but lets not forget about all the off the record builds thruout the last 10 years or so,adds another 1-2% plus folks with a bit of knowledge about the actual workings ect cannot hurt.

Mark
Mark

And magazines!

gatsby1219
gatsby1219

What you are witnessing is “White Genocide”.

Look around…

James
James

I cannot speak for the rest of you but they outlaw firearms/free speech my life will not change one iota until they TRY and enforce it,then,times reach a newer interesting level.

I will not give up either birthright of self defense nor saying what is on my mind no matter what laws passed,feel many others thinking the same.

Sadly,perhaps this is what needs to happen to finally kick this country into gear whether war/divide the country/succession ect.,sad,but perhaps the best thing that can happen.

steve
steve

Here’s what George Washington had to say
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Residents-don’t comply

Econman
Econman

Basically, if it’s not in the Constitution, it is not a viable law. Many of the things we accept are encroaching violations: driver’s licenses, paying taxes, etc.

It’s inevitable the Feds and local gov will keeping taking until either there’s nothing left to take – or the taking is forceably stopped.

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