Tuesday, July 15, 2014

It's not that the government doesn't serve the people - it's that HE'S not king!


Open-carry advocate: When our arguments fail, we must vote with our guns (Click here to read more)

By Travis Gettys
Friday, July 11, 2014 13:59 EDT
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A pro-gun, anti-government activist who encourages armed resistance to "tyrannical" government forces suggested to a cheering crowd that they should turn their sights - if not their guns - on their fellow American citizens.
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Mike Vanderboegh spoke late last month to the Howard County chapter of Open Carry Texas, where he offered a false dichotomy to frame the long-running debate on federalism as a life-and-death struggle between patriots and domestic enemies.
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"We are at present two peoples - two countries, really, living within a common border and sharing mostly a common language, but divided upon the answer to this question: Does the government serve the people or do the people serve the government?" Vanderboegh said.
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The co-founder of the right-wing "Three Percenters" group told the gun-rights activists that the Obama administration had violated the Founders' vision of government.
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"This administration, this regime, seems to operate ever more increasingly as a lawless gang than not on the rule of law but rather on the rule of men - which is to say the law of the jungle, enforced by the iron fist of government power," Vanderboegh said.
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He said such "mutually exclusive" political views could not peacefully coexist, and he said violence was inevitable.
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