Tomorrow, April 20th, The ShieldWall Network will celebrate the anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s birthday with a banquet, cake, social gathering, and cross and swastika lighting on secure private property.
Today, however, April 19th, is also an anniversary with many connotations: the government massacre of innocent civilians in Waco, the answering reply in Oklahoma City, and perhaps most importantly, the shot heard around the world.
On April 19th, 1775, government law enforcement personnel attempted to enforce a red flag law in Lexington, Massachusetts for the purpose of confiscating firearms, as well as to detain a couple of known anti-government political extremists.
We all know how that worked out for them.
ShieldWall Network Coordinator Billy Roper famously visited the spot on Lexington Green where the American revolution began that spring day years ago, and was so moved by the monument to the courage of the Minutemen there, that he stated:
“Hoplophobes who claim that the second amendment was written in an era of black powder muskets apparently believe that the first amendment only relates to quill and parchment, rather than any more modern means of communication, if they were intellectually consistent. But, they’re not.”
The Battle of Lexington was not a victory.
The Battle of Lexington was a trigger.
In this busy era of acceleration, as we prepare for a multi-organizational conference next weekend and a public rally the weekend after, it’s still appropriate to pause for a moment and remember that the United States of America was born in bloody civil war, and it looks like it’s going to die that way, as well.
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