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1. On July 1, 2020 at 10:52 am, scott s. said:

   Good piece. How many people in a pretty nice house in a gated suburban community are ready to defend themselves? My state is on the way to a standard cap magazine ban for rifles. It doesn’t matter how many “citizens” testify against it. In a situation like this, wouldn’t want to have to be searching for more mags. It seems like needing to defend themselves would have been the furthest thing from their minds — I don’t think there was any warning the mob would be coming looking for the mayor (and it looks like the mayor couldn’t care less about any one else’s safety).

2. On July 1, 2020 at 11:01 am, Bill Sullivan said:

   Very good piece, and I wish we could spread this very widely.

3. On July 1, 2020 at 3:52 pm, James said:

   We have even 10,000 Mark and Patricia’s in the country we will put a stop to the insanity I feel.

   On a side note,they have spent 30 years renovating that home to what it is today,was real close to being a knockdown.

4. On July 1, 2020 at 6:50 pm, George said:

   even if there were 100 instead of 500, that is massacre odds. They stood their ground and the demonrats are going apeshit over it.

5. On July 3, 2020 at 7:29 am, Fr. John+ said:

   the observable restraint in not calling out the ‘Take a Knee-” grows in that crowd (visible in the video) is commendable, but not helpful.

   We KNOW who the enemy is. We have known for over 150 years. Lincoln’s words were never truer.

   “Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. It is still in our power to direct the process of emancipation and deportation peaceably and in such slow degree as that the evil will wear off insensibly, and their place be pari passu filled up by free white laborers. If on the contrary it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up. We should in vain look for an example in the Spanish deportation or deletion of the Moors. This precedent would fall far short of our case.” – A. Lincoln

   “It is still in our power to direct the process of emancipation and deportation”… ‘Do you want to do this civilly, or at the point of a gun?’ is a question that needs to be asked of every single BLM advocate. This is OUR land. Our
   ‘posterity.’

   “Silence in the face of evil it itself evil:
   God will not hold us guiltless.
   Not to speak is to speak; not to act, is to act.”
   – D. Bonhoeffer

   “Nature has made them slaves; all that law and government can do, is to regulate, modify and mitigate their slavery. – George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South, or, The Failure of Free Society

6. On July 3, 2020 at 8:24 am, Ned said:

   Good video. It’s pretty clear that the McCloskeys telegraphed their intentions to the crowd.

   I remember another video Herschel posted here of an auto being surrounded by “protesters,” and when the man emerged with a gun, it was like the Red Sea parting.

   Some of the funniest videos in the gun community poke fun at tacti-cool.

   “Grandma” was effective in telegraphing her intentions, and no one was willing to test her or her husband’s resolve.

   Mission accomplished for sure.

7. On July 5, 2020 at 12:27 am, Hudson H Luce said:

   Fr John+ – Sir – Abraham Lincoln was not the author of the quote you cited, it was written by Thomas Jefferson, as follows: “It was thought better that this should be kept back, and attempted only by way of amendment whenever the bill should be brought on. The principles of the amendment however were agreed on, that is to say, the freedom of all born after a certain day, and deportation at a proper age. But it was found that the public mind would not yet bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this day. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. It is still in our power to direct the process of emancipation and deportation peaceably and in such slow degree as that the evil will wear off insensibly, and their place be pari passu filled up by free white laborers. If on the contrary it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up. We should in vain look for an example in the Spanish deportation or deletion of the Moors. This precedent would fall far short of our case.” – Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Slavery, Autobiography, 1821.

   Lincoln definitely had the same sentiments, and on numerous occasions voiced them. And he did say something quite similar, in his “Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes “, on August 14, 1862: “Having all been seated, the President, after a few preliminary observations, informed them that a sum of money had been appropriated by Congress, and placed at his disposition for the purpose of aiding the colonization in some country of the people, or a portion of them, of African descent, thereby making it his duty, as it had for a long time been his inclination, to favor that cause; and why, he asked, should the people of your race be colonized, and where? Why should they leave this country? This is, perhaps, the first question for proper consideration. You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think your race suffer very greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence. In a word we suffer on each side. If this is admitted, it affords a reason at least why we should be separated. You here are freemen I suppose. Perhaps you have long been free, or all your lives. Your race are suffering, in my judgment, the greatest wrong inflicted on any people. But even when you cease to be slaves, you are yet far removed from being placed on an equality with the white race. You are cut off from many of the advantages which the other race enjoy. The aspiration of men is to enjoy equality with the best when free, but on this broad continent, not a single man of your race is made the equal of a single man of ours. Go where you are treated the best, and the ban is still upon you.

   I do not propose to discuss this, but to present it as a fact with which we have to deal. I cannot alter it if I would. It is a fact, about which we all think and feel alike, I and you. We look to our condition, owing to the existence of the two races on this continent. I need not recount to you the effects upon white men, growing out of the institution of Slavery. I believe in its general evil effects on the white race. See our present condition—the country engaged in war!—our white men cutting one another’s throats, none knowing how far it will extend; and then consider what we know to be the truth. But for your race among us there could not be war, although many men engaged on either side do not care for you one way or the other. Nevertheless, I repeat, without the institution of Slavery and the colored race as a basis, the war could not have an existence.

   It is better for us both, therefore, to be separated. I know that there are free men among you, who even if they could better their condition are not as much inclined to go out of the country as those, who being slaves could obtain their freedom on this condition. I suppose one of the principal difficulties in the way of colonization is that the free colored man cannot see that his comfort would be advanced by it. You may believe you can live in Washington or elsewhere in the United States the remainder of your life [as easily], perhaps more so than you can in any foreign country, and hence you may come to the conclusion that you have nothing to do with the idea of going to a foreign country. This is (I speak in no unkind sense) an extremely selfish view of the case. …” https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln5/1:812?rgn=div1;view=fulltext

8. On July 5, 2020 at 3:18 pm, imwithstoopid said:

   And the free/safe place was named Liberia, and look at its condition today 158 years later.
   This is so sad for the consistent 20% or so of them that show that they can live as a truly civilized and free-willed people that are called Uncle Toms to this day.

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