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Chuck Baldwin: THE DEATH of AMERICA… (via ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984+ ~ (BLOG & EMAIL))
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Gunny G’s Marines History and Traditions: Lessons
A friend of mine was there, Commander Robert Menard of the U.S. Navy. When the question of, “Why did you not invade” was asked, he would never forget the answer.
A senior member of the Japanese Navy looked at the man who had raised the issue with an expression on his face like someone who had caught another person asking a trick question. Yes, the Japanese commander replied, his people did indeed have intelligence on the matter and had explored the question in depth. They had determined that more than half of American homes contained firearms.
They had been shocked to discover that the United States still had state and national championships of military rifle shooting for private citizens. They had invaded disarmed countries like China with smooth success and had worked out the scenarios of what the death toll to them and their kind would have been like if the victims had been able to shoot back.
Menard never forgot what the Japanese navy man told him then, and I in turn will not be able to forget them: “We were not fools, to step into such quicksand.”
His research had been valid. So had his assessment. Perhaps he had read the account of one of his own lieutenants, Yoshio Shiga, speaking in awe of the courage of the American Marine who had stood on the ground and fired his Colt .45 automatic in the face of the oncoming Japanese fighter plane and its blazing machine guns.
Lt. Shiga had seen it in our servicemen, and in his last instant on earth Shigenori Nishikaichi had seen it in the face of the American civilian who killed him with his bare hands.
It is sad that, only 60 years after the sacrifices of so many at Pearl Harbor, a generation of Americans has arisen that wishes to disarm its brothers. Sad. And contrary to the documented lessons of something that, in perspective, is very recent history.”
Obama under fire for giving Hurt Locker director access to Navy SEALs to make Bin Laden film
Hollywood is looking to shed light on the top-secret commandos who killed the world’s top terrorist, and the White House is helping, one congressman says.
The U.S.’s top brass is reportedly giving filmmakers the inside scoop to all things Navy SEAL for a movie about the squad who took out Osama bin Laden.
Rep Peter King has called for a probe into the access allowed to filmmakers for a movie about SEAL Team 6
The New York Times reported this week that military officers were shocked when writer Mark Boal showed up at a CIA ceremony in honour of Team 6.
Boal, along with director Kathryn Bigelow, wrote the Oscar-winning Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker, and is now scribing a Navy SEAL film.
For the project, Mr Boal and Miss Bigelow reportedly have been granted unique access to the inner workings of the Pentagon.
Rep. Peter King, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said letting Hollywood in on sensitive information like SEAL Team 6 may cost lives.
In addition, the lawmaker contends that granting such privileges could tarnish the war on terror and other disastrous consequences.
Mr King asked the inspectors general of the CIA and the Department of Defense to determine what consultations occurred in the White House about providing Hollywood with access to covert military operators and clandestine CIA officers.
In a letter dated August 10, Mr King demanded an investigation into ‘ongoing leaks of classified information regarding sensitive military operations.’
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk …
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Prison Planet.com » ‘We are the Enfield Army’: Video of locals chasing rioters in London
A group of anti-rioters marched through Enfield, in north London, aiming to deter looters. “We are the Enfield anti-rioting squad,” said one local resident. “You want to riot our place, we will riot you mate. This is our area not your area.” Another Enfield resident said his fellow vigilantes were the “people that are London, not the small minority that are going around smashing up stuff, that have got nothing to wake up for in the morning.”
via Prison Planet.com » ‘We are the Enfield Army’: Video of locals chasing rioters in London.
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The Correct Definition of “Armageddon”
The Correct Definition of “Armageddon”
http://www.theignorantfishermen.com/2011/08/correct-definition-of-armageddon.html ^ | 8/10/11
Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 6:57:36 PM by The Ignorant Fisherman
As of late, all we have been hearing from the hyper leftist propaganda news media – is that, “America is in a fiscal “Armageddon”. The media and ‘Marxist” Washington D.C. has been pushing crisis after crisis in their never ending evil designs to seize more and more power and control over our Republic form of democracy. The word “Armageddon” – which has been used continually by these fear mongers,- has been used by many in many different ways and in many different contexts to describe a situation of gloom or pending catastrophe, but sadly when this word (Armageddon) is used it is ALWAYS taken out of its original biblical context, thus clouding and distorting the seriousness of its meaning and watering down its horrific sobering realities of the godless world’s FINAL global battle against Almighty God (Rev. 16:13-16).
“but sadly when this word is used it is ALWAYS taken out of its original biblical context, thus clouding and distorting the seriousness of its meaning and watering down its horrific sobering realities of the godless world’s “Final Global Battle” against Almighty God”
As far back as the pre-flood world, Almighty God has spoken of a Day when He would judge the world for their lawless and rebellious violations against the ETERNAL (spiritual and natural) absolutes of Almighty God(Jude 1:14-15). Mankind – who lives in his fallen darkened subjective world – has rejected the ETERNAL sovereignty of Almighty God – his Creator – and has been at continual war against Him since Adam’s fall (Gen.3, Rom. 1:18-32; 3, 5:12-21).
As mankind has spread out into all four corners of the earth since the judgment at the Tower of Babel, he has ONLY increasingly manifested and blossomed into the godless, lawless and violent individual that has ravished him since his fall (Gen 8:21, Rom. 1:18-32 ; 3). 6000 years of human history has overwhelmingly and exponentially demonstrated to all without any shadow of a doubt mankind’s absolute bankrupt condition when pertaining to the ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS ABSOLUTES of Almighty God. As time has marched on (6000 years), we have only seen the world entrench themselves continually deeper into the spiritual abyss of fathomless darkness, totally self absorbed and totally bankrupt (John 3:19-21, Eph. 2:1-3, Rev. 17:1-2). It has been in these last 100 years – out of the 4200 years since Babel – in which we have seen mankind with all of its EXPONENTIAL technological advances, EXPONENTIALLY express themselves as a horrific violent mushroom cloud on the horizon of mankind. This ravishing of the world’s societies, cultures and inhabitants of planet earth has reached new EXPONENTIAL cruelties, barbarianism and global blood baths with its genocidal madness destroying countless millions.
“With the incredible new HYPER – EXPONENTIAL technological advances of our day expect mankind to out do themselves as they continue to express their violent and lawless tendencies to all new levels of catastrophic barbarity and godlessness”
There has NEVER been a century of death, violence, famine, genocide, barbarity, anti Almighty God, anti Semitism and anti Christian until we reached the 20th century. With the incredible new HYPER – EXPONENTIAL technological advances of our day expect mankind to out do themselves as they continue to express their violent and lawless tendencies to all new levels of EXPONENTIAL catastrophic barbarity and godlessness (Matt. 24:10-12; 2 Tim. 3:1-7; Rev. 6-16). My friend, that is exactly where we are heading as a world and what the seven tribulation period (Daniels’s 70th week) will EXPONENTIALLY manifest and demonstrate (Matt 24; 2 Thess. 2:3-12; Rev. 6-16). It will be – at this time – that the final rebellious expression of mankind’s hatred against Almighty God their Creator and His ETERNAL sovereignty will fully be manifested to its zenith! Even with the overwhelming SUPER NATURAL signs and wonders of Almighty God’s Two Lamp Stands (Moses and Elijah), nothing will hinder and stop the wrath of fallen mankind and their demonic masters to do FINAL battle against Almighty God’s program for the ages found in the nation of Israel (Zech. 12:3-4, Rom. 9-11) at the battle of Armageddon. My friend, ALL is heading to Armageddon!
“It will be during these seven years of tribulation that mankind will reach the rebellion zenith against their Creator under the demonic influence of Lucifer and his released fallen hosts”
Armageddon – as the Bible (Almighty God’s Word) – clearly defines, is the FINAL accumulated manifestation of the godless rebellious heart of mankind through out the centuries (4200 years since Babel rebellion) expressed at its pinnacle and zenith (Rev. 16; 13-16). It will be during these seven years of horrific tribulation that mankind will reach the rebellious zenith against their Creator under the demonic influence of Lucifer and his released fallen hosts (Rev. 9, 16:13-16, 18:2). The horrific and catastrophic transgressions of mankind at this time will be achieved by these global delusional maniacs in light of the full revelation of Almighty God’s grace, mercy, evangelical outreach, signs, wonders and angelic proclamations – Rev. 6-16. So GREAT will their subjective and vindictive rage and hatred be against Almighty God that these will stop at nothing to reach their final conflict! Is it not funny how all of those who throw around the “Armageddon” word NEVER state this reality. How can they! Sadly, it is most likely that the over whelming majority of these reprobates would march to Armageddon themselves if the battle were today!
May you harden not your hearts and understand what Almighty God’s ETERNAL LOVE is for you. As this Day approaches, may you be sure that you personally know the Lord Jesus Christ as you PERSONAL Savior (John 1:12, 3:16-17, Acts 16:29-31)! You will NEVER be the same!!
The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
These riots reflect a society run on greed and looting
It is essential for those in power in Britain that the riots now sweeping the country can have no cause beyond feral wickedness. This is nothing but “criminality, pure and simple”, David Cameron declared after cutting short his holiday in Tuscany. The London mayor and fellow former Bullingdon Club member Boris Johnson, heckled by hostile Londoners in Clapham Junction, warned that rioters must stop hearing “economic and sociological justifications” (though who was offering them he never explained) for what they were doing.
When his predecessor Ken Livingstone linked the riots to the impact of public spending cuts, it was almost as if he’d torched a building himself. The Daily Mail thundered that blaming cuts was “immoral and cynical”, echoed by a string of armchair riot control enthusiasts. There was nothing to explain, they’ve insisted, and the only response should be plastic bullets, water cannon and troops on the streets.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk …
Thomas R. Horn — They, Part 4
Demons—Spirits of a Pre-Adamic Race?
According to this field of thought, a pre-Adamic race existed on the original Earth before it became “dark and void” (Genesis 1:2). These humanlike creatures lived under the government of God and were presided over by Lucifer, the “anointed cherub that covereth” (Ezekiel 28:14). When these pre-Adamites joined Lucifer in revolt against God, a cataclysm fell upon Earth, physically destroying its inhabitants. Only the spirits of these beings survived to roam the earth disembodied. This is offered as an explanation for why demons desire to possess humans, as they were meant to be “housed” in bodies of flesh and are uncomfortable otherwise.
2) Demons—Otherworld Beings?
Since little is known about life outside the limited sphere of our planet, a growing body of people contend that intelligent life forms may have been visiting earth from distant worlds or parallel dimensions since the beginning of time. Some Bible expositors have picked up on this concept, blending it with traditional demonology and suggesting that demons are perhaps entities from another world (or reality) whose structure, like ultraviolet rays, are invisible to the human eye, but nonetheless distinct in atomic design.
Those holding this view note the universal consistency with which extraterrestrials and UFOs have been seen throughout history and that continue to be reported………………
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Militants urge British rioters to topple system
Militant online forums are abuzz with calls to Muslims in Britain to launch Internet campaigns in support of the British rioters and to urge them to topple the government.
Dozens of contributors on Wednesday suggested Muslims in Britain should flood social media websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, with slogans and writings inciting the British youth to continue rioting.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.com …
DHS & FBI Merge Data Creating Database of Secret Watch Lists
This newly proposed DHS Watchlist Service will combine four different DHS systems of records including the TSA-managed [9] Transportation Security Threat Assessment System [10] and TSA’s Secure Flight [11] Records,Treasury Enforcement Communication System (TECS) managed by Custom and Border Protection (CBP) Passenger Systems Program Office [12], andIDENT [13] which is managed by the US-VISIT [14] Program. In case you were unaware, according to the July 13th testimony before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security [15], the US-VISIT’s IDENT is “fully interoperable” with the FBI‘s “10-fingerprint-based” identity system to run against the watchlist and the “FBI’s entire criminal master file of over 69 million identities in near real time.” The DHS proposal did not please the Electronic Privacy Information Center. EPIC then led a coalition of privacy groups and civil rights organizations to file a protest to Homeland Security‘s plan to centralize and expand access to the FBI’s suspected terrorist database. The privacy groups are challenging Homeland Security’s plan to change the Watchlist Service [16], “a secretive government database filled with sensitive information. The agency has solicited comments[17] on the program, which entails developing a real-time duplicate copy of the database and expanding the groups and personnel with immediate access to the records.” The statement filed by EPIC and the other privacy and civil right groups [18] [PDF], points out that DHS has admitted that it “does not control the accuracy of the information in system of records” and that “individuals do not have an opportunity to decline to provide information.” Additionally, the DHS Watchlist Service attempts to circumvent privacy protections established by the Privacy Act. Congress previously found that “the privacy of an individual is directly affected by the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of personal information by Federal agencies. Congress also emphasized that “the right to privacy is a personal and fundamental right protected by the Constitution of the United States.”
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via DHS & FBI Merge Data Creating Database of Secret Watch Lists.
One speech can reclaim O’s dignity (Resignation)
One speech can reclaim O’s dignity (Resignation)
NY Post ^ | 8/10/2011 | Michael Goodwin
Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 4:14:37 PM by Signalman
Dear Mr. President,
Knowing your interest in how previous presidents faced national crises, I recommend an example you might have missed. It’s an Oval Office speech noted not for its oratory, but for its surprising content. The parallels to your situation are striking.
By early 1968, Lyndon Johnson‘s presidency had hit a dead end. His Great Society triumphs were behind him — the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and PBS.
Ahead lay only the continued quagmire of Vietnam, and a nation so divided he could not unite it. His approval rating was a dismal 36 percent, and only one in four Americans approved of the war.
He faced a tough slog for re-election, with even the Democratic Party nomination in some doubt. Sen. Eugene McCarthy, running against the war, nearly defeated him in the New Hampshire primary.
–snip–
“For 37 years in the service of our nation, first as a congressman, as a senator and as vice president, and now as your president, I have put the unity of the people first,” he said. “I have put it ahead of any divisive partisanship.”
But warning that “a house divided against itself” cannot stand, he declared, “There is division in the American house now,” and said it was his duty to put its repair above all else. Then came his bombshell.
“Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com …
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Reading, Writing, Rioting… Philly Flash Mob Is From Oprah-Funded School
Are they teaching community organizing at Mastery Charter High School?
Philly officials reported that the latest violent flash mob to hit the streets were from an Oprah-funded charter school.
Caught On Tape: Philadelphia Teen Mob Attack: MyFoxPHILLY.com The Blaze reported:
The incident occurred July 29—the same day flash mob attacks took place in another section of the city—just blocks from Mastery Charter High School. Students in the video face expulsion or suspension, school officials wrote in a letter to residents in the area where the attack took place.
Sources told Fox 29 that man attacked in the video was hospitalized with injuries to his head and teeth. No charges have been filed so far, police told Fox 29.
“It makes me sick,” said Mastery CEO Scott Gordon.”We’re very very upset about it, that any student, but particularly a student that’s been in a Mastery school, would behave like that, to think that that’s okay, is very disturbing.”
Mastery’s parent company received $1 million from Winfrey last September as part of her Angel Network.
via Reading, Writing, Rioting… Philly Flash Mob Is From Oprah-Funded School.
Prison Planet.com » Police Were Ordered To Stand Down As London Burned
Precisely as we reported yesterday on the back of numerous eyewitness reports, it has now emerged that police were ordered to stand down and let London burn during the first few nights of rioting, an action that quickly led to a frightened public to demand troops on the streets, rubber bullets, water cannons and curfews.
On Tuesday we highlighted the “lackluster police response, with numerous reports from the public that police stood back and allowed looters to pillage both large department stores and private small businesses for hours on end.”
According to eyewitnesses
via Prison Planet.com » Police Were Ordered To Stand Down As London Burned.
Responsibility of the Police to Protect Citizens | eHow.com
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Sometimes the meaning of the classic phrase “To Serve and Protect” can seem unclear to those outside the law enforcement profession. The basic responsibility of police to protect citizens when they are able to does not mean that citizens are absolved of personal responsibility for their own safety. Occasionally, litigious individuals take the concept of “To Serve and Protect” to an extreme by attempting to sue police forces for allegedly failing to protect them. These kind of lawsuits are almost universally defeated since it is not in the interest of the court to weaken police departments.
To Serve and Protect Explained
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“To Serve and Protect” does not just mean to serve and protect specific individuals, but also to serve and protect the rights of groups and individual persons equally. This may seem counter
via Responsibility of the Police to Protect Citizens | eHow.com.
To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice
Government police forces, prosecutors, courts, and prisons are all historically recent developments. Prior to their development, community-based and private systems handled many matters that are today referred to the government criminal justice system. With the increasing size, complexity, expense, and unresponsiveness of the government criminal justice system, attention is once again being given to private alternatives.
In this book, Benson transcends the policies of liberals and conservatives that have supported government’s traditional role in criminal justice. With lucidity and rigor, Benson examines the gamut of private-sector inputs to criminal justice, ranging from private-sector outsourcing of prisons, security, and arbitration to full “private justice” such as business and community-imposed sanctions, crime prevention, and increased private security and self-defense.
This book examines how private justice measures are a traditional response to government failure in crime prevention and justice. To reduce crime and protect civil liberties, Benson weighs the benefits and liabilities of various levels of privatization, offering correctives for the current gridlock to make criminal justice truly accountable to the citizenry and simultaneously reduce the unchecked power of government.
via To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice.
Archangel 1918 to Hanoi 1972
Since it was established as a distinct component of the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office in the fall of 1994, the Joint Commission Support Directorate has carefully examined a series of reports and sightings of U.S. servicemen held in the Soviet gulag, a network of penal camps that crisscrossed the former Soviet Union.
Several points have become clear.
First, Americans, including American servicemen, were imprisoned in the former Soviet Union. The Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies even transferred some of these Americans from satellite states such as the German Democratic Republic, to the Soviet Union, where they were detained. However, despite our extensive efforts, we have not yet acquired definitive, verifiable information that would allow us to determine the scope of such transfers or the ultimate fates of those whose lives were directly affected by them. [1]
The parties [including the United States and North Vietnam] shall help each other to get information about those military personnel and foreign civilians of the parties missing in action, to determine the location and take care of the graves of the dead so as to facilitate the exhumation and repatriation of the remains, and to take such other measures as may be required to get information about those still considered missing in action.[2]
During the Twentieth Century the United States openly fought international communism three times, on battlefields from the frozen wastes of Siberia, to the harsh mountains of Korea, to the steaming jungles of Vietnam—and after those conflicts we never recovered thousands of American POWs and MIAs. We fought communists covertly during World War II when they were our allies, and later in the “Cold War” when they were not—and then, too, suffered the loss of countless POWs and MIAs.
These hot and cold wars against worldwide communism, together with
via THE “G” WEBLOG @N54 by R.W. “Dick” Gaines: Archangel 1918 to Hanoi 1972.
Gunny G Online…
Morning, 1020, on 23 February 1945, Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, our national colors raised for the first time ever over the Japanese Empire!
The combat patrol of 40-men of Easy Company 2/28, 5th Marine Division, led by 1/Lt Harold G. Schrier USMC. See Gunny G’s sites & forums for the story of Sgt Ray Jacobs, USMC (Ret.), who for 57 years went unrecognized as the radioman in Sgt Lou Lowery‘s series of photos of the actual flagraising on Iwo Jima (not the “replacement” flag photo shot by Joe Rosenthal later that same day to become almost instantly famous).
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Americans Left Shaking Their Heads – Congress Enjoying Vacations While America Falls Apart
“Today the American dollar will continue to slide into a black hole, and continue to slide all the way to zero if we continue to go down this path. We have exported so many dollars overseas that it boggles the mind. This will have huge implications around the world as well as America. The devaluation of the dollar has become astronomical. Even the Chinese are trying to save the value of the dollar, as it is what makes them so powerful
via Americans Left Shaking Their Heads – Congress Enjoying Vacations While America Falls Apart.
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Fox News off and then on again at Escondido gym (LA Fitness)
Fox News off and then on again at Escondido gym (LA Fitness)
North County Times ^ | August 8, 2011 | Mark Walker
Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 10:10:31 AM by DogByte6RER
Fox News off and then on again at Escondido gym
Fitness devotee Dianne Lowe’s best exercise in recent days may be standing up for what she says is free speech.
The five-year member of the LA Fitness club on El Norte Parkway in Escondido was outraged last week when she went to turn on the right-leaning cable channel while working out and found it wouldn’t come in.
Lowe talked to a gym attendant, who she said told her that LA Fitness officials had ordered it shut down.
“They told me, ‘We are not allowed to turn on Fox News,’ and that was a decision from corporate,” Lowe said.
Lowe immediately complained to the club and dashed off a letter to LA Fitness.
An attendant at the Escondido club on Monday morning confirmed that CNN was the only news channel available on its television screens —- but a check later in the day revealed that Fox News was back.
“It was a satellite issue,” the attendant said Monday afternoon, saying the club had changed its provider and had lost the Fox channel for a few days.
There have been similar complaints that Fox News was dropped at other LA Fitness clubs around the country, according to reports on the Internet.
In each case, unnamed LA Fitness representatives also said the absence of the channel was a satellite issue.
Repeated calls and emails Friday and Monday to numerous LA Fitness officials —- including the media office at the company’s headquarters in Irvine —– went unanswered.
Lowe said Fox is her network of choice because she believes the network provides the most “fair and balanced” coverage, as it routinely proclaims.
“I don’t want to go to the gym and have them dictate to me what I can watch,” the 62-year-old Lowe said Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at nctimes.com …
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London Riots: ‘We Can’t Cope’, Police Admit
Shortly after 9pm on Monday, as daylight bled from the sky, the police finally lost control of London.
A gang of boys and girls, most no older than 15, and some apparently as young as eight, broke into a row of shops in Bethnal Green, in the East End. As they left carrying piles of clothes, a police car drove past. It did not stop.
Forty minutes after the first 999 calls were made, two police vans arrived at the scene, already too late.
On a night of untold destruction that left businesses and homes across the city in flames, it counted as a small incident. But the detail said so much about how life in Britain’s capital city had changed over the course of the past four days. As rioters looted and burned their way through London’s shopping centres and high streets for a third successive night, Scotland Yard’s 6,000 street officers were hopelessly outmanoeuvred. In many cases, they were simply outnumbered.
When they eventually arrived at riot scenes in force, such as during Monday night’s first clashes in Hackney, the police were forced to retreat as youths bombarded them with bottles and stones and set cars ablaze. Not even the deployment of armoured vehicles to protect neighbourhoods such as Clapham in the south and Ealing to the west could prevent the destruction from spreading.
The victims — London’s hard-working shopkeepers, commuters and families, proud of their homes and their well-kept streets — began to lose faith in the law.
Returning early from his Tuscan holiday, the Prime Minister appeared to reflect the growing anger of many in the capital as he called for “more robust” action against the rioters. He promised 16,000 officers would be on the streets to maintain order last night, an unprecedented number that represented…………
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk …
The Secret History of Guns
The Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Reagan, and, for most of its history, the NRA all worked to control guns. The Founding Fathers? They required gun ownership—and regulated it. And no group has more fiercely advocated the right to bear loaded weapons in public than the Black Panthers—the true pioneers of the modern pro-gun movement. In the battle over gun rights in America, both sides have distorted history and the law, and there’s no resolution in sight.
The eighth-grade students gathering on the west lawn of the state capitol in Sacramento were planning to lunch on fried chicken with California’s new governor, Ronald Reagan, and then tour the granite building constructed a century earlier to resemble the nation’s Capitol. But the festivities were interrupted by the arrival of 30 young black men and women carrying .357 Magnums, 12-gauge shotguns, and .45-caliber pistols.
The 24 men and six women climbed the capitol steps, and one man, Bobby Seale, began to read from a prepared statement. “The American people in general and the black people in particular,” he announced, must
take careful note of the racist California legislature aimed at keeping the black people disarmed and powerless Black people have begged, prayed, petitioned, demonstrated, and everything else to get the racist power structure of America to right the wrongs which have historically been perpetuated against black people The time has come for black people to arm themselves against this terror before it is too late.
Seale then turned to the others. “All right, brothers, come on. We’re going inside.” He opened the door, and the radicals walked straight into the state’s most important government building, loaded guns in hand. No metal detectors stood in their way.
It was May 2, 1967, and the Black Panthers’ invasion of the California statehouse launched the
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com …










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