BREAKING NEWS: Seventy-Two Killed Resisting Gun Confiscation In Massachusetts.
National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed by elements of a Para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.
Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement.
Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group’s organizers as “criminals,” issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government’s efforts to secure law and order.
The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed wide-spread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault weapons.
Gage issued a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early this month between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms.
One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that “none of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned over their weapons voluntarily.”
Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition. However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the government’s plans.
During a tense standoff in the Lexington town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists.
Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange.
Ironically, the local citizenry blamed government forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths. Before order could be restored, armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended upon the guard units. Colonel Smith, finding his forces over matched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat.
Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops.
Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as “ringleaders” of the extremist faction, remain at large.
And this, My fellow Americans who do not know your History, this is how the American Revolution began on April 20, 1775.
@tadgh_dc Mining typically pays local people really well. I guess they are trying to lower the wages by importing indentured servants, like every other industry. We need to start taring and feathering all these people selling out our country.
Natives need to bear firmly in mind that if the demographics of this nation wildly vary from the traditional white majority, it won't be some great development for us.
It will be the opposite. We share a history with the whites, good and bad, but it's behind us now. The whites like and admire us, and as little as some of us want to admit it, they have helped us enormously.
The newcomers don't give a damn about us. We have no history with Pakistanis or Afghans or whoever. They are coming to conquer, that's it.
If we don't stand with the whites, we will fall together. It's that simple.
A 24–week-old baby holds the thumb of a doctor post-birth.
Born weighing 600 grams, with 10 fingers and tiny toes.
This child isn’t “just a clump of cells,” but a human baby, valuable and worth fighting for.
I was pro choice until I found out at 20 years old that I lost a sibling through abortion
When it hit that close to home I was faced with feelings I had never had before.
What do you mean one of us is missing?
Abortion has a far greater impact than just a “personal medical choice between a woman and her doctor”, my brother or sister they were a real person, a real human, they shared the same parents as me, they were part of me, of our entire family.
Who knows what kind of wonderful things they would have done? the memories, stories, all of it is just gone, never to be allowed to exist because of one selfish decision.
Learning this also made me so confused as to why was I allowed to exist and live? Why did she make the choice to allow me to live and yet did not allow my sibling the same right? Why me and not them? You say you love me but had I come at another time would you have decided to not have me? How can you love someone when you can so easily decide if they live or die? How can you truly love a child if you are willing to live without them, and not only that, be the reason they die?