R127 said:
It is increasingly aparent that a large portion of the gun community has some very unrealistic views about certain particular government agencies. Any which way you cut it there is a nest of traitors up in D.C. that seriously can be and should be brought to trial on charges of treason. Any one of them is a million billion times more of a real threat than the stupid after hours recruitment center arsonist. I guess some forms of patriotism just require a whole lot less effort than other forms of patriotism.
Well said, sir.
It brings to mind the nationalism so prevalent during WWI, when Schenk was arrested for distributing pamphlets discouraging people from enlisting in the Army.
From the insane Espionage Act of 1917: "Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully utter, print, write or publish any disloyal, profane scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States…(the war, the flag, the military, the navy, enlistments, buying bonds, uniforms, etc,)…in contempt, scorn, contumely, or disrepute, or …intended to incite, provoke or encourage resistance to the United States, or to promote the cause of the enemy shall be punished by…a $10,000 fine or imprisonment up to 20 years."
State-worship at its finest, and reminiscent of the mob insanity that enabled Lincoln's imprisonment of Northern newspaper editors who dared to criticize the intention and execution of his war against the South.
-Sans Authoritas
