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U.S. gun owners pack heat in

public to protest Obama’s ‘Marxist’ agenda

April 20, 2010 · 2

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Demonstrators carrying their weapons rally at

Gravelly Point in Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac River from

Washington, D.C., citing second amendment issues as their cause for

protest. Photograph by: Olivier Douliery, Abaca Press/MCT

 

Canwest News | Apr 19,

2010

 

 

By Sheldon Alberts

 

ARLINGTON, Va. — This time, they came

armed.

They came with loaded combat pistols

strapped to their belts, assault rifles slung over their shoulders and

extra 12-bullet clips in their pockets, just in case.

They came carrying signs proclaiming

that “Freedom Never Fails, but socialism does.†And they came with

fiery rhetoric that likened the U.S. government to the 9/11 hijackers

and President Barack Obama to Karl Marx.

In a brash display of their opposition to

Congress and the Obama administration, about 75 weapons-bearing

demonstrators gathered in the shadow of America’s most iconic monuments

to freedom Monday to protest a government they claim is trampling their

liberty.

Technically a rally to “Restore the

Constitution,†the event served as a controversial showcase for members

of America’s civilian militias, gun rights activists and other

anti-government groups whose prominence has grown since the 2008

presidential election.

“Obama was mentored by Marxist. He is a

Marxist and he is going to lead this country down the Marxist collapse

agenda and roadmap of Europe,†said 41-year-old Geoffrey Bean, who

travelled from Sacramento, Calif., for the rally.

“Never in history have Marxists understood

anything but the barrel of a gun. Ever. And so we brought the barrels

of our guns to show them that they are not going to take away our

constitutional rights without a fight.â€

Larry Pratt, executive director of the Gun

Owners of America, said American citizens established the federal

government and “we can un-establish it, too.â€

The protest marked the first-ever “open carry

rally†held in a U.S. national park. The gun rights activists gathered

at Gravelly Point, which sits astride the Potomac River within view of

the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial and the U.S. Capitol.

Ironically, they were allowed to carry their

weapons openly because of legislation signed recently by Obama that

legalizes the carrying of loaded guns in national parks.

“To tell you the honest truth, him signing a

law saying that I can stand here (with a loaded gun) doesn’t mean

anything to me,†said Daniel Howley, 53. “The constitution says I can

stand here.â€

The decision to hold the armed

anti-government rally on April 19 was deliberate and — for some —

incendiary.

It was on April 19, 1775, that American

soldiers exchanged fire with the British at Lexington and Concord,

Mass., beginning the War of Independence.

But critics of the rally noted the protest

also fell on the anniversary of a more shameful event — 15 years after

Timothy McVeigh, an anti-government Army veteran, detonated a truck

bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing

168 people.

At past rallies against the Obama

administration across the U.S., gun rights activists have carried signs

saying “We the People came unarmed . . . this time.â€

It is slogans like that — and armed events

like the one on Monday — which worry critics, who say anti-government

activists are inciting violence.

“This is a great country, full of great

people who do not espouse violence. But these people here today do,â€

said Martina Leinz, a Virginia resident who protested the armed

protesters on Monday.

Laura Austin, another counter-protester,

carried a sign that said “They are Terrorists, Not Patriots†and

“Timothy McVeigh Was Not a Hero.â€

The charges of extremism and comparisons to

McVeigh angered several of the armed demonstrators, who said the

Oklahoma City bombing did not inspire their rally.

“They want to make us non-patriotic. I don’t

care what the hell Tim McVeigh did,†said Walter Seidel of Ruidoso, New

Mexico. “Anyone who understands our history — the ‘shot heard around

the world’ was fired this day 235 years ago.â€

Timothy Whittamore, 44, drove from

Independence, Ky., so he could wear his 9 millimetre pistol at the

rally.

“Rosa Parks stood up on a bus one day and

made a statement that changed the world,†said Whittamore, likening

himself and other protesters to the late civil rights activist. “When

she stood up on that bus, it’s the same thing we are doing here today.â€

Many of the anti-government protesters said

they most fear Obama and Congress would restrict their Second Amendment

rights to bear arms.

But several armed protesters expressed an

overriding worry that other recent events — from passage of health care

legislation to the bailout of Wall Street — are placing the United

States on the cusp of becoming a totalitarian state.

“The enemies to the constitution are not over

in Iraq. The enemies to the constitution are not in Afghanistan. The

enemies of the constitution are across this river,†said Tom Fernandez,

32, founder of Alarm and Muster, a communications network established

to reach people in case of constitutional emergencies.

“If you trample under your feet the freedoms

of this country just as quick as you drink a glass of water, I am not

your friend. I am not your friend.â€

Eric Stinnett, a 39-year-old engineer from

Alabama, called the U.S. government an “unjust authority†and likened

today’s lawmakers in Washington to the Sept. 11 terrorists: “Does our

government not act like suicidal hijackers?â€

 

 

 

 

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