Militia movement will be packing heat at rally on the Potomac [View All]

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Source: WaPo

Daniel Almond, a three-tour veteran of Iraq, is ready to "muster outside D.C." on Monday with several dozen other self-proclaimed patriots, all of them armed. They intend to make history as the first people to take their guns to a demonstration in a national park, and the Virginia rally is deliberately being held just a few miles from the Capitol and the White House.

The Atlanta area real estate agent organized the rally because he is upset about health-care reform, climate control, bank bailouts, drug laws and what he sees as President Obama's insistence on and the Democratic Congress's capitulation to a "totalitarian socialism" that tramples individual rights.

"What I think is important to note is that many of the speakers have really threatened violence, and it's a real threat to the rule of law," Josh Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, said of the program for the armed rally. "They are calling health care and taxes that have been duly enacted by a democratically elected Congress tyrannical, and they feel they have a right to confront that individually."

Those coming to the "Restore the Constitution" rally give Obama no quarter for signing the law that permits them to bring their guns to Fort Hunt, run by the National Park Service, and to Gravelly Point on the banks of the Potomac River. Nor are they comforted by a broad expansion of gun rights in several states since his election.

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These nuts are taking loaded weapons to a "Restore the Constitution" rally. Where were these fuck-bags when W. Bush was wiping his ass with the bill of rights?

This story is immensely disturbing. When Bush was doing his shit and we protested, we were told that he was the legal winner of the election and to just shut up and live with it. (This, even though he got a half-million votes fewer than Gore.) When we challenged the constitutionality of parts of the Bush agenda, were were labeled as seditionists and were asked "who the hell were we to judge what's constitutional. These things have to go through courts and be duly judged..." and that we weren't entitled to make our own judgments about what was constitutional or not and act on it.

Now that a negro's in charge, suddenly we have police and ex-military ready to judge on their own what's constitutional or not and selectively enforce - or worse, resist - those things they themselves judge as un-constitutional.

Someone convince me we're not seeing the beginning of the end of the Republic.