Where Are All The Second Amendment People Now? This Is Your Time!

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"

 - Second Amendment of the United States Constitution

For the eight years Barack Obama was President, the Right (Republicans) railed about how Obama was coming for everyone's guns.  That never happened. Obviously. Because that was never the plan. 

In one of his manufactured crises, Trump, on April 17, 2020, tweeted:

LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2020

Here we are, just under 100 days until the next Presidential election, and federal troops are in Portland, Oregon under the guise of protecting federal property. A courthouse and federal building to be exact. 

Except that they aren't...

On July 4, Trump ordered federal 'troops' to Portland where months of Black Lives Matter protests, mostly peaceful, had been occurring since May.  These protests are in response to the murder of George Floyd in Missouri.  

What are the troops protecting the courthouse from exactly? Graffiti.  Federal troops, who do not have to listen to local law enforcement, who have been operating under federal authority, wearing fatigues with no identification, and driving around in unmarked vehicles, are patrolling the city and arresting protesters. It should be noted, however, that these federal troops, they are paramilitary.  They aren't US Military. They are members of the CBP and DHS. They are not trained in military protocol.  They are not the police. They are not trained for de-escalation. This is, in fact, not what happens in a democracy, but what definitely can be described as happening in a military dictatorship (think North Korea as an example).

Who are these protesters that are being arrested? Among them are:

Moms.

Photo Credit: Big World Tale

Dads.

Photo Credit: Alan Butterfield, Daily Mail

Veterans.

Photo Credit: Reddit
(an upside-down US flag is a signal of dire distress in instances
of extreme danger to life or property)

These citizens are standing peacefully trying to block the federal troops from reaching the protesters. These citizens are protecting protestors. From their own government.

This is exactly what the Second Amendment was written for. So where are all the Second Amendment people now?

Citizens are being arrested by paramilitary troops.  These same troops who are supposed to be 'protecting a federal property', are patrolling blocks away from the courthouse and taking protesters off the streets in unmarked uniforms and into unmarked cars. 

These troops are carrying guns with live rounds - LIVE ROUNDS. They are teargassing the Wall of Moms (see above), the Dads, and the Veterans. The very people who are charged with protecting the people of America are in fact, attacking them with tear gas, rubber bullets, and live ammunition.

So why haven't the people who are so passionate about the Second Amendment, that guarantees them the right to bear arms against a tyrannical government, why haven't they spoken up? Why haven't they taken up their arms against this tyrannical government action? Isn't this what these people basically live for? Don't militias exist in the US to protect their fellow citizens from a government that is bent on harming and fighting against people who are actually using their First Amendment right to protest?

Americans are literally being attacked and injured by the federal government on American soil. So where are you, Second Amendment people? Let's go.  Pick up your arms and show the government what your Second Amendment is supposed to mean.

Or are you too scared? Or even worse, do you agree with what Trump is doing?  In which case, you are not only liars, you're also hypocrites. 

Name change

Hi there.

If you're reading this, you used to read my "Things that Annoyed me Today" blog.  This isn't much different, except I've changed the name to "What the F***!?" because if you're living in today's world, it's pretty much the only thing appropriate to say to the state of things.

2020 started out... weird. And it just kept getting worse.

We had World War Three nearly start
Then Australia was on fire.
Then we had a global pandemic. And it's July and we STILL have a global pandemic.

What's worse, is in the US (I'm in Canada), there's been no national plan and no real leadership from the top offices of the government that the virus is just EXPLODING there.  Republican Governors are following what the president says and were the last to close their economies and the first to reopen. And are now experiencing literal explosions of infection. It's completely out of control in the US.

Houston, today, is starting to get the beginning of a hurricane - and for fun, the hospitals there are so overrun with Covid-19, that they have begun using 'death panels' to determine if someone is worth treating.  Seriously. If you're too sick to be treated by their opinion, you are sent home to die.  Think about what that means.

And this is happening in THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The richest (supposedly) country in the world, with the worst healthcare system in any developed nation, where universal healthcare is too scary, but a fascist president isn't.

What the fuck?