National guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed on April 19th 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 Lexington 's 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, people, published in the Boston Globe April 20, 1775 is how the American Revolution began.
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Coming soon to a town near you!
As Jim Kirk would say..."Are you ready for a rematch?".
WOW when I started reading this I was thinking how did they keep this off the front page.
I am willing to stand.... ARE YOU??
It is frightening to read this as a citizen of the United States of America where we have the right to bear arms to protect ourselves against the tyranny of a good government gone bad.
a perfect case of history repeating itself.
Indeed 10:31!
I for one am sick to see Obama dismantle the United States of America!
I am stocking up now as much as I can. I hope it does happen because unfortunately that is the only thing that is going to get our country back.
Revolution is at hand. We the people will revolt and take our country back at some point soon.
The 1% wants you to be unarmed when they take your 401k and all retirement plans to pay for the government programs.Joe Biden has said this already.
What do you expect from a Yankee State?
I just wonder if there are any 'men' left in this country who would do this. Instead of turning their neighbors in for owning firearms.
The latter is more believable.
The FIRST American Revolution. Understand and believe this -- the government is NOT trying to "catch terrorists" or "protect" us with all the drones, pervasive and ubiquitous surveillance, secret trials and secret prisons, random and armed roadblocks to "look" for "violators", the purchase of BILLIONS of rounds of ammunition, the NDAA, the militarization of civilian police forces, the Patriot Act (what a name!), the practice runs by the U.S. military on the quick suppression of civil unrest in the cities, the efforts at gun control, etc. The list is alarmingly endless. It is for ONE THING (you don't think there are so many terrorists we actually need special, secret prisons (plural), do you?) and only one thing --to control and condition AMERICAN citizens and to quickly suppress any resistance. They can't say THAT, but they know the sheep will nod their head in agreement if they say its to protect us against "terrorists". Keep cheering. If you have a moment, look at some historical film of the millions cheering wildly for Hitler. Zoom in. See if you can find yourself in the picture. Or at the train station.
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