Loaded long guns........civil disobedience..........people being funneled across a bridge................police in armor waiting on the other side.........a shot rings out...............
One person, that is all it will take. One person to discharge a weapon, LEO or Citizen, it will not matter.
The issue I see here is that on April 19, 1775, the Lexington Militia were standing ON THEIR LAND when the aggressors marched in on them. This event sets up a situation where the forces of .gov will be perceived as the "passive" defenders of the status quo and the men seeking to right the wrongs being committed against them are going to be seen as the aggressors.
For the low information exposed, media fed, farm stock, this will look like a revolution in progress, perhaps even a revolution against them and their chosen way of life. Nothing good will come of this. If .gov wants a war, let them start it. Given time, they will.
Now the Dutchman, as he likes to be called, is about as rabid an individual as you ever want to meet when the subject is politics, rights, and especially the Second Amendment. When he calls the proposer of this event a nut-case you can be fairly well assured that he is talking major Looney Tunes material.
Vanderboegh. He's not rabid, he's serious. There is a difference.
I agree with him and other posters here that it would only take ONE provocateur in that group of 1,000 armed men to start a bloodbath. And Adam Kokesh is somehow gonna vet all these folks and place them under correct authority? Never gonna happen. It'll be a herd of armed and possibly well intentioned cats without clear leadership or any form of internal discipline. In the army this was described as a cluster f**k. People will die.
So blood is shed. And who would benefit from that? Only those who control what the public see and hear about the events of that day of course...
And the dawn of the next day will bring us what? A new America? Surely. What kind of America? That will come down to determined and skilled minorities and the will to live Free. Either way, some of us will be ready to stand to defend our Rights and our communities.
We're getting beyond the scope of OC as a means to protect an already regulated and limited Right. We are heading into dark days where, if not restrained correctly, the forces of violence will destroy what little remains of the Founder's Republic. The forces are gathering and lines are being drawn.
I think there is a good chance this event will happen. 1,000 men is only 20 from each state. If in these divisive days, an impassioned speaker such as Adam cannot gather that number of men I will be shocked. And then all that remains is the test of wills.
"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution
Will there be a repeat of this phenomenon here in the next year or two? People are talking. A poll released last week discussed something like 28% of the polled thought that there would be a need for a revolution in the next few years. Breen, in another book, discusses the concept that there came a point when the colonists decided, individually first, then collectively, that violence was an acceptable method of creating the change they sought. This wasn't a top down process, it was a result of people becoming exposed to the sufferings of their neighbors in other colonies and their own personal discomfort. In short, the Parliament pushed them too far. There are clear comparisons that can be drawn from the years leading up to 1774 and the actions of our servants in DC today. They push us unrelentingly. They despise us and mock us. They waste our life energy and they plan on continuing with our children. Will we take this forever? Should we?
I guess that's the real question with all of this. Should we?