What
Really Happened on July 4th 1776
Al Ritter
As I watched a rather contentious interaction between
Rep. Jamie Raskin and Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene in a House Rules Committee
meeting this past week, I was shocked and amazed by Raskin’s total ignorance of
the history of our country. He raised one liberal view point after another,
commonly known as a “strawman argument.”
His comments were all over the board as he questioned
Greene. His whole pointed interrogation of Greene actually had nothing to do
with the Rules Committee, but more to do with his obsessive attack on Donald
Trump. He treated this Rules Committee meeting more like a continuation of his
position on the Jan 6th Select Committee. Keep in mind that the
Rules Committee only exists to make the rules that allow a bill to come forward
in Congress. As you watch this interrogation of Greene ask yourself what this
has to do with rules.
He questioned Greene on the validity of her position
that the country has a right to take up arms against the government. I wished I
had been there to defend that idea, because I don’t think Greene came very
prepared to argue her point.
This would have been my argument; On July 4th,
1776 our country was formed by basically over throwing the corrupt government
of England. The Declaration of Independence stated such and by what means was
necessary as follows….
We
hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are … endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable Rights…. That to secure these Rights, Governments
are instituted among Men…. That
whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the
Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such
Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. …
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right
themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses
and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to
reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to
throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Declaration
of Independence (1776).
So Jamie Raskin, there is your “proof” on that point.
Then he went on to joust with Greene over a ruling in
2020 that claims that Private Militias were outlawed in all 50 states.
Factually his statement was correct but that had more to do with “militias”
showing up at elections too be used as voter intimidation. Once again strawman
argument.
Raskin then went on to smear the actually meaning of
the Second Amendment, as he continues to push a liberal talking point for
decades about the word militia meaning the National Guard. When the
Constitution was ratified in 1787 there was no National Guard or anything like
it, the Federal National Guard wasn’t even formed until 146 years later in
1933. So his claim is false.
There are 23 States that have their own militias,
sometimes called State Guard which have no connection whatsoever with the
Federal National Guard. Raskin purposely blurred the lines between private,
state and federal militias, their purposes and legalities.
I know Jamie Raskin truly believes that because he has
a law degree his opinion means more than anyone else’s. But if Raskin would
only take the time to read the Federalist Papers he would get a better
understanding on the true meaning of the word “militia.”
Sadly liberals have misused and misinterpreted this
word for way too long.
Back in 1786 when the Constitutional Convention was
formed to give us our Bill of Rights (the first 10 Amendments) the term militia
was pretty obvious, it was a combination of “We the People” and the ragtag
group of what we considered the army that fought the Revolutionary War. NOT the
National Guard formed 143 years later like Raskin and his ilk want you to
falsely believe.
Happy July 4th America, do your part now to
read the Federalist Papers to actually see what our forefathers intended.
Watch Raskin’s childish display here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZpiXPCPvM4&t=2s
Read about Private militias here:
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/our-press-releases/fact-sheets-on-unlawful-militias-for-all-50-states-now-available-from-georgetown-laws-institute-for-constitutional-advocacy-and-protection/
Read about State Militias here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_defense_force
Read the Federalist Papers here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers
Sadly these children think that ignorance is funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCvmGBZaIZM
