Trump Delegate: Americans "Need to Have the Weaponry Necessary to Overthrow the Government"
Mother Jones has identified several Republican delegates representing Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention in July who have also affiliated themselves with the radical anti-government Patriot movement. One delegate from Tennessee, David Riden, told Mother Jones that members of the current administration may need to be...well: “The polite word is, eliminated. The harsh word is killed.” In 2016, the lunatic fringe moves ever closer to the mainstream.
Trump has actively courted the resurgent Patriot movement since 2011, with his promotion of the Birther conspiracy theory. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, antigovernment groups have increased sixfold since Obama took office. SPLC estimates there are nearly 1,000 such groups in the United States today, including about 276 armed militia groups.
Riden, a retired nuclear engineer, said he is not himself a member of an armed militia group, but has contacts with one in Tennessee:
There’s only one reason why the Founding Fathers put the Second Amendment…If the federal government were to follow the path of all other governments, at some point it will turn to tyranny against the people. And at that point, when it stops to uphold and abide by the Constitution—and we’re talking about the Supreme Court, Congress, and the executive branch, all three are way off away from the Constitution right now—the people have the right to assemble, bear arms, go to Washington, DC, or wherever necessary, and go into military battle against the government and replace those in government with individuals that will uphold the Constitution. The Constitution should remain, but the people that are abusing it should be, the polite word is, eliminated. The harsh word is killed. And they’re killed by American citizens with weapons. And if people have tanks, assault weapons, if they have bombs—they need to have the weaponry necessary to be able to overthrow the federal government.
http://gawker.com/trump-delegate-americans-need-to-have-the-weaponry-ne-1780148005
Clearly the founding fathers wanted gun nuts to have nuclear weapons to keep the revenuers off their backs.
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