The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.They strut around with their military-style weapons and intimidate the populace under the guise of protecting their Second Amendment rights.
The problem with these people is that they wouldn't recognize a tyrant if they saw one.
In 2016, Donald Trump suggested that he might not accept the election results if Hillary Clinton won. He also warned that she would be a threat to the Second Amendment. In fact, playing to his basket of deplorables, he made this statement:
If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although the Second Amendment people--maybe there is, I don't know.Yes, he suggested that an assassination might be the way to go should Hillary become president and start picking judges.
The tyrant labels his opponent a tyrant and calls for her assassination.
I don't need to point out all of the tyrannical things Donald Trump has done, or attempted to do, since 2017. There are lists being kept by major news organizations and websites. But what has he done, just in the past few days?
First, he called for his gun-toting fans to "liberate" their states from the "tyranny" of measures that would control the spread of the deadly coronavirus. And, indeed, his devotees brought their guns to some state capitals and bullied governors and legislators. They faced no repercussions for their actions.
Second, when blacks protested the murder of George Floyd by police officers, and when some looting took place, he threatened to send in federal troops if state governors reacted with what he termed a "weak" response.
When the looting starts, the shooting starts.Then the most lawless president in our history declared himself to be a "law and order" president. He made it plain (as if it needed to be more plain) that the words "law and order" apply only to enforcement efforts aimed at the control of blacks.
Then our tyrant did a curious thing. He turned off the outside lights of the White House and retired to a bunker. The public reaction to that, many people calling out his cowardice, apparently caused his next action.
He sent out police in riot gear, and they teargassed a group of peaceful protesters in Lafayette Park. After that, our hero bravely strode out of his bunker, and walked to St. John's Episcopal Church, and held up a Bible.
Well, I have said that the "Don't tread on me" gang wouldn't know a tyrant if they saw one. But I may have spoken in error. They know this tyrant, and they love him.
Donald Trump is testing the limits of what he can get away with, and trying to push the boundaries of what he can get law enforcement and the military to do. A lot of law enforcement, I'm afraid, is with him. But I wonder about the military. At what point will they consider an order of his illegal and refuse to carry it out?
