Quoted this week in NewsMax.com, General Tommy Franks issued baldly that the U.S. Constitution will probably need to be scrapped, in favor of some form of military dictatorship. Citing the blanket-spectre of “terrorist threats,” he reasoned that the U.S. would need to come under lockdown and Total Control via the U.S. military…for our own good.
And just like that, General Franks sets the stage for a Second American Revolution.
Under General Franks’ vision, vaporized are the creeping threats against the second amendment (McCain-like attacks on gun show “loopholes”; “Brady Bill” legislation against “assault weapons”; restrictions on clip/magazine capacity for rifles and handguns). Nor are we talking about the rape of the 4th amendment, which protects We The People against “unlawful search and seizure,” as seen in the recent “Patriot Act” and the proposed “Victory Act.”
General Franks speaks plainly of martial law—where such silly Jeffersonian presumptions of Liberty are moot; null and void.
Scary sh*t. Truly. From one of America’s foremost Military Men; and spread, for unknown reasons, through NewsMax.com—one of America’s most-read “conservative” Internet news magazines.
Myriad statistical studies suggest that United States citizens hold roughly 15,000,000 (million) rifles—largely for hunting purposes, but also for sporting target-practice. Add to that millions more shotguns, handguns and even “illegal” automatic weapons (machine-guns) and devices equipped to launch small mortars, grenades and cannon-balls, and one sees very readily that the U.S. military is facing a dilemma. These common deer rifles (30.06, equipped with a scope and carrying a high-grain propellant and steel-core bullet) can and do penetrate the toughest Kevlar vest. Nevermind the head/neck or groin or leg-shot (femural artery). A row of cannons and the odd LAAWS rocket-launcher/bazooka/Howitzer assembled strategically will dispatch a goodly squadron of aerial and ground-force vehicles and their occupants.
It’s a crying shame that one must write these words. But Tommy Franks “brought it on,” and, in the face of dismantling all that Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams and other valiant souls held for the hope of Liberty in our nation, there is no other way to phrase things. When the enemy becomes Our Own Government, then We The People must react with similar force and vigor…
The real question shall be, to what degree the heavily-armed local police (city-by-city, county-by-county) will react in any such martial-law crackdown. The local police may, in fact, be the buffer-zone or the “swing-vote,” in realpolitik, in any such equation. Ditto, members of the states’ National Guard and active military reserves members. To a lesser degree, the potential of “insubordination” of active-duty military may throw a wrench into any martial law blueprint.
Discounting any patriotic assistance from police, National Guard, military reserves and active-duty military, We The People are left to our own devices. For, without the Constitution and its guarantees of Liberty, and especially facing the vanquishing of the second and fourth amendments, you (each person reading these words; each friend and family member with whom you discuss this dilemma) must decide:
What is life? What is freedom? Do you trust Thomas Jefferson, who stated very clearly, that, “The tree of Liberty must, from time to time, be refreshed by the blood of patriots and Tyrants”; or do you accede to General Tommy Franks’ visage, of a North America under martial law?
It’s your choice. I suggest you make that choice very soon, and then act wisely and effectively upon it.
Source: http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2014