Support Our Troops

On April 19, 1775, in Lexington, Massachusetts, Americans assumed responsibility for their own protection as they had always done. The minute men or similar organizations had been formed whenever their was a threat against the safety of the average citizen’s home and family. It was a necessity. There was no one else to protect them. Their government possessed the largest and most experienced army in the world at the time, but it wasn’t used for defense. No large standing army has ever been used for defense. They are formed for conquest and eventually used to control the population of their own lands.

Our own military has now been furnished with unconstitutional changes to the law to facilitate the declaration of martial law, a concept not provided for in the constitution and normally associated with the harshest of dictators. Our military has also practiced methods of taking over some of our cities and have actually taken over sections of a few using techniques perfected in Iraq. The military is using our tax money to develop new lethal and “non-lethal” weapons specifically designed for crowd control.

Few Americans from the era of our nations battle for independence, no matter what their political preferences were, wanted a large standing army. Their own militia was their choice for defense. There is no doubt this is the reason the right to bear arms is in the constitution.

During the American Revolution, General Washington had trouble keeping enough men in the field to fight the British. There were several reasons for this but right at the top of the list was the colonies refusal to supply or provide troops for fighting outside their own colony. That is how strong and deep their fear of large national armies went.

Today our so called militias are half way around the world interfering in a fight that is hardly our business and profits only the large oil companies and a select few government contractors. Interference that was not asked for by anyone and was in fact condemned by the United Nations. Yet everyone, or so it seems, is proudly displaying cute little painted or printed ribbons displaying the words “Support our troops”. Have Americans changed so much since the first days of our republic or are their sentiments, like the actual ribbons, fakes. If so we had better hope their true sentiments can be brought to the surface in sufficient numbers to prevent the past from repeating itself.