No, the above title is not an admission to being a New England Patriots NFL football team fan - I'm not a fan of any sport or professional franchise to whatever sport they play. It is also not some early tribute to September 11, 2001 - an infamous day some have tried to relabel as Patriots Day. No, I bestow the label on April 19th for different reasons.
On this date in US history, three events occurred of great significance, one in the 18th Century before the republic's founding and the other two within two years of each other in the 1990s.
On April 19, 1775, Massachusetts minutemen militia assembled on the village green of Lexington as 700 British soldiers from the garrison in Boston arrived seeking a store of arms and ammuniton in the vicinity to confiscate them from the rebellious militias. When the minutemen refused to disperse, and after a shot rang out in the area, the Redcoats opened fire killing eight and wounding ten minutemen, wounding only one British soldier. The Americans fled, but at Concord additional militia stopped the British from entering their town later in the day. Minutemen then harassed the retreating British column all the way back to the safety of Boston until nightfall. Given the state of average Americans, I doubt they would have the courage to take up arms or ever fire at government troops or police if facing gun confiscation and military occupation under some sort of martial law.
On April 19, 1993, the FBI and BATF ended a siege of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas lasting since the BATF assaulted the location on February 28 failing to arrest David Koresh who led that religious group and had been accused of various crimes. The assaults had been planned during the George H. W. Bush administration and executed by the new Clinton Administration Attorney General Janet Reno. Koresh could have been arrested by local authorities months earlier without the unnecessary force and mass murder inflicted by the government for any charges including the trumped up weapon law violation (sawing the barrel shorter on a rifle, or was it owning a machine gun without a licence) and other unproven allegations such as child molestation. Many of the charges used by the government against Koresh and his group were inspired by disgruntled former members of that group (bringing their motives somewhat into question).
Two years later, two men allegedly parked a rental truck filled with fertilizer-based explosives that exploded beside the Oklahoma City federal office building killing 167 employees and other civilians inside. Too many conspiracy theories swirl around these events, such as McVey and Nichols being AlQueda sleeperr agents aided by unidentified Arab men, or that the event was a false flag operation launched by the Clinton Administration to silence their Republican Congressional and other critics about the federal government's heavy-handed actions two years earlier.
I believe the latter two events were wakeup calls to how our government was getting too powerful and dangerous, never meant to be that strong under the Constitution. One showed the federal government's heavy hand crushing those minority groups they wished destroyed (just as with Indians of the 19th Century or other marginalized groups in the past). The second may have been merely a vengeful act targeting that ever expanding federal government, or as suggested above something more than met the eye.
As mixed a message as I may be accused of making here, and considering how I no more believe the government's narrative on Waco, Oklahoma City or 9/11/2001, it would be DON'T TRUST YOUR GOVERNMENT OR ANY OTHER SELF-APPOINTED MORTAL AUTHORITY FIGURES CLAIMING SOME UNDESERVED FORM OF SOVEREIGNTY OVER YOUR EVERYDAY LIVES. Be a patriot on today of all days and thing for yourselves. Don't believe the lies told by your rulers or their media mouthpieces. Tell Emperor Barry (and all who succeed him as Emperor of America) he has no clothes.
On this date in US history, three events occurred of great significance, one in the 18th Century before the republic's founding and the other two within two years of each other in the 1990s.
On April 19, 1775, Massachusetts minutemen militia assembled on the village green of Lexington as 700 British soldiers from the garrison in Boston arrived seeking a store of arms and ammuniton in the vicinity to confiscate them from the rebellious militias. When the minutemen refused to disperse, and after a shot rang out in the area, the Redcoats opened fire killing eight and wounding ten minutemen, wounding only one British soldier. The Americans fled, but at Concord additional militia stopped the British from entering their town later in the day. Minutemen then harassed the retreating British column all the way back to the safety of Boston until nightfall. Given the state of average Americans, I doubt they would have the courage to take up arms or ever fire at government troops or police if facing gun confiscation and military occupation under some sort of martial law.
On April 19, 1993, the FBI and BATF ended a siege of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas lasting since the BATF assaulted the location on February 28 failing to arrest David Koresh who led that religious group and had been accused of various crimes. The assaults had been planned during the George H. W. Bush administration and executed by the new Clinton Administration Attorney General Janet Reno. Koresh could have been arrested by local authorities months earlier without the unnecessary force and mass murder inflicted by the government for any charges including the trumped up weapon law violation (sawing the barrel shorter on a rifle, or was it owning a machine gun without a licence) and other unproven allegations such as child molestation. Many of the charges used by the government against Koresh and his group were inspired by disgruntled former members of that group (bringing their motives somewhat into question).
Two years later, two men allegedly parked a rental truck filled with fertilizer-based explosives that exploded beside the Oklahoma City federal office building killing 167 employees and other civilians inside. Too many conspiracy theories swirl around these events, such as McVey and Nichols being AlQueda sleeperr agents aided by unidentified Arab men, or that the event was a false flag operation launched by the Clinton Administration to silence their Republican Congressional and other critics about the federal government's heavy-handed actions two years earlier.
I believe the latter two events were wakeup calls to how our government was getting too powerful and dangerous, never meant to be that strong under the Constitution. One showed the federal government's heavy hand crushing those minority groups they wished destroyed (just as with Indians of the 19th Century or other marginalized groups in the past). The second may have been merely a vengeful act targeting that ever expanding federal government, or as suggested above something more than met the eye.
As mixed a message as I may be accused of making here, and considering how I no more believe the government's narrative on Waco, Oklahoma City or 9/11/2001, it would be DON'T TRUST YOUR GOVERNMENT OR ANY OTHER SELF-APPOINTED MORTAL AUTHORITY FIGURES CLAIMING SOME UNDESERVED FORM OF SOVEREIGNTY OVER YOUR EVERYDAY LIVES. Be a patriot on today of all days and thing for yourselves. Don't believe the lies told by your rulers or their media mouthpieces. Tell Emperor Barry (and all who succeed him as Emperor of America) he has no clothes.