No One Asked Me But (July 7, 2021) – mvprogress

By DR. LARRY MOSES

No one asked me but This week I would like to expand upon a thought in which I finished my column with last week. Do not conflate this with a call for revolution and rebellion. I am not advocating any such thing. I am merely explaining how America came about as a nation and this seems like the right time to do so since we have just celebrated the creation of America as a nation.

You might recall that President Biden delivered what was cast as a get tough on crime speech. It was actually an attack on the Second Amendment rights of all law-abiding American citizens. He vehemently stated that no American citizen has a right to own a military grade weapon. He based this on the fact that deer do not wear Kevlar vests. Most disturbing was his twice repeated threat that rebellious citizens would be met with a government force armed with F-115s and nuclear bombs. He indicated this superior fire power would make resistance impossible.

I would remind the President that in 1776, colonial patriots faced the greatest military of the day with squirrel guns and won independence for the American colonies. They faced 35,000 British soldiers, the largest military gathering America would see again until 1860. George Washington met them with 18,000 poorly equipped and ill-trained mostly militia troops.

Protests, nullification, armed resistance, and finally revolution were the steps in the reply to what colonist deemed British oppression. Revolution was the last step for these patriots, or traitors, depending where you stood on the issue of rebellion. Sound familiar?

While Black Life Matters and Antifa look to overthrow what they believe is an oppressive racist government the vast majority of Americans disagree with these radicals and their political views. One of the advantages of the revolutionary sentiment coming from the liberal left is that they agree with the President that there is no need for any American to have a military style weapon.

This, however, is not the policy of the radical right. For those who see no threat in these small minorities of discontents, from both of these extremes, should keep in mind the vast majority of colonists either opposed independence or were at best ambivalent to it.

James Otis in 1765 stated: Independence, which none but rebels, fools, or madmen will contend for.Ben Franklin stated in 1774: I have never heard in any conversation from any person drunk or sober the least expression of a wish for separation from England.

That there are any who pant after independence is the greatest slander on the province, said John Adams in 1775.

Until after the rejection of the second petition of Congress, I never heard an American of any class or description express a wish for Independence, stated John Jay.

It is well known that in July of 1775, a separation from Great Britain and the establishment of a Republican government had not yet entered into any persons mind, said Thomas Jefferson, in 1782.George Washington in 1774, echoed his fellow colonial leaders with this statement: I am well satisfied that no such thing is desired by any thinking man in North America.

As late as January, 1776, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey instructed their delegates to vote against independence.

Why this reluctance to declare independence from England? The declaration of rebellion would close the door to reconciliation. English rebels were executed, quartered, their heads were displayed as a warning to others.

Independence would upset the commercial class and their profitable connection with the motherland.English politics also complicated the question of American independence. The Whigs already approved of Americas resistance to the punitive acts of the King and Parliament. The Whig leader William Pitt stated, I rejoice that America has resisted! However, he further stated if Americans entertained the idea of independence, he would be the first to enforce British authority.

Besides there was no guarantee that the colonies would not be merely trading one dictator for another as a strong military leader might emerge.

The American revolution was the work of a committed minority who succeeded in neutralizing a large majority who had little interest or commitment to their cause. In New York and some southern states, the loyalists outnumbered the rebels. These factors all delayed the actual declaration of independence.On June 7, 1776, the Continental Congress considered a resolution stating, These United Colonies are and of right ought to be, free and independent states;

Three days later the Committee of Five asked Thomas Jefferson to draft a Declaration of Independence. After a few adjustments by John Adams and Ben Franklin, this document stated that the government exists by the consent of the governed for the purpose of securing the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It went further to state that it was a sacred duty of man to revolt when governments seek to destroy and invade those rights.

The Declaration of Independence justified the intervention of Spain, France, and Holland as they came to the aid of the colonies. As an independent country, America could aid them in their continual battle with England.

Does the President not understand that F-115s and nuclear bombs would not be facing a people but they would be facing an ideology. In a battle over ideology, the inferior force does not have to win, it merely has to out-last the powerful. Military power may kill individuals, however it cannot destroy an ideology.

If this lesson was not learned from our battle for independence, we surely should have learned it from Vietnam. It is a lesson Russia learned in Afghanistan anda lesson which America, too, will accept on September 11, 2021, as we withdraw our troops from the same.

It all reminds me of the fights I had with my older brother. He would dominate me, but I would not submit, and he would eventually give up and go away which was a win for me.Does the President not understand that many nations would come to the aide of any group that would organize to overthrow the American government?

Mr. President, the Second Amendment has nothing with to do Kevlar jackets for deer or defense against ones neighbor. It is about the defense of the American people against an oppressive government whether it is imposed by an external or internal force.

Thought of the week This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. Abraham Lincoln

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