WHILE THE BAND PLAYED THE SIREN'S SONG AMERICANS LOST
THEIR COUNTRY WHILE THEY SING -- IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE
It was clear that all the government had to do was wait. The multitudes of demon-
strators in the immense government square had shrunk to a few thousand, and more were
drifting away every day. But the hardliners {rulers} were determined that the demon-
strators shouldn't escape unscathed; such protests could lead to open rebellion and
violent revolution {so they said - to justify their actions} -- like the one {the
Civil Ware} that had created the present government.
With the heads of government divided and wavering, the Army {secretly acting
under the orders of the President} decided {we are told} to act. Obeying the orders of
the president, the commanding general of the army lined up his forces facing the
demonstrators and ordered them to disperse. The demonstrators didn't think the Army
would attack.
It did. Tanks rolled into and across the demonstrators' ramshackle huts. marching
soldiers with fixed bayonets and assault rifles and tear gas followed the tanks,
clubbing, bayoneting and shooting those assembled. The Army later said the demon-
strators rioted; the generals claimed armed soldiers were attacked. {But the results
were that} Many of the demonstrators were wounded; the number who died will never be
known -- the government claimed it was only one.
The commanding general declared that the demonstrators were driven by "the
essence of revolution," and that it was "beyond the shadow of a doubt" that the
demonstrators had been about to seize control of the government.
The commander was Douglas MacArthur.
THE PLACE WAS WASHINGTON, D.C., not Beijing or some other foreign country.
The date was 1932, not 1989.
The "assault rifles" were bolt-action Springfield Model 1903s, not AK-47s.
The peaceful demonstrators weren't students in Tiananmen Square demanding the
equivalent of our First Amendment rights of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and
the right to petition the government for grievances.
The demonstrators on the Washington Mall and nearby Anacostia ALREADY HAD THOSE
RIGHTS; their problem was that THEY USED THEM. THEY WERE AMERICANS -- WORLD WAR I
VETERANS, THROWN OUT OF WORK BY THE GREAT DEPRESSION {Caused by the Federal Reserve},
lobbying for government to immediately pay their promised Veteran's Bonus.
No, the attack on the Bonus Marchers, bad as it was, wasn't the brutal mass
murder unleashed upon the students in Beijing. The American people wouldn't have
tolerated it -- and had the means to stop it. What happened at Tiananmen Square was
the kind of ruthless tyranny that has occurred in other lands through out history, and
is precisely what the Founding Fathers feared might be done by the powerful central
government they were creating under the United States Constitution.
That's why the people refused to ratify that Constitution until it was amended to
guarantee certain individual freedoms known today as the Bill of Rights. That's why
the First Amendment guarantees of {free} speech {Which today applies as long as the
government approves of what is being said or written}, assembly {As long as it serves
the purposes of the one-worlders} and petitioning the government {as long as it is
Jews demanding money so they can continue murdering young children in the Mid-east}
were backed up by the Second Amendment guarantee that the right of the people to keep
and bear arms was not to be infringed. And when, during debate on the amendment, some
senators attempted to limit the right to apply only to "the common defense" -- which
is what some people today say it is -- the Senate rejected it. That piece of "legis-
lative history" clearly shows that the Second Amendment was intended to be an
individual right -- not merely a "collective right" of states to have militia.
Most of the world's constitutions, even the Constitution of Soviet Russia, con-
tain beautiful words promising freedoms that only U.S. citizens enjoy. The reason, as
unintentionally acknowledged by the anti-gun {anti-Christ, anti-American}
crowd, is that only in the United States {have} do individual citizens have such
relatively free and unfettered access to firearms. But instead of glorying in that
unique freedom, and the freedoms it guarantees, SOME {our enemies} IN THE ESTABLISH-
MENT ARE ATTEMPTING TO ELIMINATE IT -- with too much success.
This nation existed for 150 years without any federal gun laws. The National
Firearms Act, attempting to tax out of existence machine guns and short-barrelled
shotguns {the bill originally included handguns} was enacted in 1934. Don't kid
yourself that the reason was Thompson-toting hoodlums like Pretty Boy Floyd, John
Dillinger or Bonnie and Clyde. The reason was the fear put into the Establishment by
those Bonus marchers, and the March 7, 1932 march on the Ford plant in Dearborn,
Michigan, where police killed four and wounded 50.
The government's fear was summed up by one of the co-sponsors of a bill to ban
private possession of "military weapons whose only purpose is to kill people." During
the hearings he blurted it out: "What scares me is the thought of those veterans going
against police; Vietnam veterans know how to use those guns." {What's new about that?
All military personnel know how to use guns!}.
The legislator was testifying in Maryland hearings earlier this year {1989} on a
California-type bill banning the possession of AK-47 rifles and other military-style
semi-automatics. I was there; I heard him say it. {The only reason a government would
fear its citizens owning weapons is because that government has turned outlaw -- for
only outlaws fear honest men with weapons!}.
New Jersey State Police Col. Clinton Pagano, a determined advocate for prohibi-
tive gun laws, has said many times that "GUN CONTROL IS PEOPLE CONTROL." He is exactly
correct. That objective never changes, only the excuses used to promote it.
The first major gun control push in this country wasn't "to control crime," it
was to control freed slaves. The first Supreme Court decision on the Second Amendment,
U.S. v. Cruikshank (1876), so proudly cited by anti-gun "liberals," held that the
"right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed by the Congress,
that the Second Amendment did not prohibit the Ku Klux Klan from conspiring with local
officials to prevent freed slaves from possessing guns and attending political meet-
ings.
The next major wave of "gun control" was supposedly to deny guns to "anarchists"
-- which was a code name for immigrants -- during the waves of immigration around the
turn of the century. For the first time the criminal element began actively using and
promoting "gun control" AS A MEANS OF DISARMING POTENTIAL VICTIMS.
Immigrant shopkeepers, accustomed to being bullied by thugs, corrupt police and
government in Europe, had willingly paid "protection money"