Via Bearing Arms by Tom Knighton
The American Revolution wasn’t exactly a love fest. We didn’t talk our way into independence. We shot red coats in the face. We tried to talk, of course, but the British weren’t interested in listening, so we did what we had to do.
The American Civil War was a fight to end slavery and preserve the nation. It was a violent fight. Yankees and Rebs shot each other and destroyed entire cities, and in the end, the task was accomplished.
So when someone like Sen. Ed Markey invokes those two wars as “revolutions” and then calls for a new one, one has every right to believe violence is, at a minimum, not off the table.
And that’s exactly what Markey did.
Standing outside in snow-covered Boston with a bullhorn adorned with leftist stickers, including one saying “Black Lives Matter,” the senator spoke about the start of the American Revolution, and other similar “revolutions,” including one against Trump and Musk. “This is the city of revolutionaries, from the American Revolution, to create checks and balances in the United States Constitution so that we did not have a dictator, a king, the way those way those colonists were living under it!” The crowd could be heard agreeing enthusiastically.
“And they fought, all along Massachusetts Avenue, all coming out, the minutemen and women to say, ‘no taxation without representation!'” As Markey continued, his remarks were momentarily drowned out by cheers from the crowd. “The American Revolution started here,” he went on to remind. “The revolution of abolitionism started here, the revolution of the suffragette movement started here, the revolution of same-sex marriage started here, the revolution against the war in Vietnam started here, the revolution against Donald Trump and Elon Musk, it starts here,” the senator emphasized.
I’m old enough to remember how Sarah Palin was supposedly responsible for Gabby Giffords being shot because she used crosshairs over districts her organization targeted as vulnerable Democrats, but this is acceptable?
Again, at least two of the “revolutions” he cites here were violent confrontations.
Many comments to the senator’s post on X ask if he’s calling for insurrection against the elected president of the United States–a man who won both the electoral vote and the popular vote this time around–though he apparently hasn’t clarified his remarks as of this writing.
I find this incredibly hypocritical, though.
When people carry guns at all as a form of protest or rally–something I’m not a particular fan of, by the way, because it distracts from the message of any non-Second Amendment-related protest–people like Markey act like the protest was, in fact, a threat. They claim everything is a threat, yet invoking two wars as examples of the kinds of revolution that “started” in Massachusetts is somehow perfectly acceptable and couldn’t possibly incite anyone into an act of violence.
Really?
Look, I very much fear that we’ve been on a path to a second civil war for quite some time. I genuinely thought we’d be there already. Since we don’t seem to be taking a different path, I’m concerned we’re still heading that way. A lot of other people figure the same thing, and not all of them are on the side of the angels here. Some are going to hear this and potentially think that now is the time.
And if they do, Markey bears just as much responsibility as they want every Republican to bear whenever they try to pin something on them.
On the upside, this side of the debate has guns, trains with them, and carries them everywhere they can.
I suspect those who heed Markey’s words as an invitation to violence are going to have a very bad time. That blood will also be on Markey’s hands.
Read in its entirety at bearingarms.com.
READ NEXT: Trump Terminates Top Law Enforcer, Demands IMMEDIATE Improvement
Sounds like to me Mr Markey is advocating for an overthrow of the government. Wouldn’t that be treason???? He’s in front of a crowd trying insite inserection. What’s wrong with this picture.
The Civil War was not fought to end slavery. Slavery did not enter the war as a motive until 2 years into it. Do your homework.
He should lose his job as a senator!! And be arrested. How horrible to insite this type of violence against our President who, in fact, is finding all of the “Taxation without Representation” that has gone on by the Democrats for YEARS. That’s what he’s upset about!!! What will they find about him??? Horrible! Just horrible.
I hope the Secret Service and/or the FBI paid this insurrectionist a visit.
It’s a Comrade Cameraman who never pans the crowd during outside events! This video, in other words, was a photo op, taken by a Democrat operative for the news cycle. It wasn’t about recording news! It wasn’t a real rally. Just looking within the field of vision, and listening to shouts, I’d guess maybe a dozen in the (staged) audience!
I don’t think we should wait until another shot is fired at a conservative or a liberal. This kind of veiled persuasion has to stop. I suggest Sen. Markey should get a call from the Secret Service and a representative from the AG’s office concerning his comments. Put him on notice that the DOJ has him on a watch list of agitators and will be monitoring his public speech closely. Inform him about the line between legal free speech and speech that lends itself to an assassination conspiracy.
In the meantime, the DOJ should be researching the law and legal precedent to determine exactly where that line is and if it’s crossed by anyone in congress, they should be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible.
Will the Democrats ever GROW UP? They are acting like a bunch of spoiled brats. If they don’t get their way, then it is the wrong way. We the American voters said we want Trump and no more Democrats. The Democrats want all of our money, and we are just not going to settle for that.
The extra paycheck from USAid must not have come through because it was stopped. A lot of that pissing off the crooks lately.
To hell with Markey! That ignorant SOB has basically “sent a message for violence aimed at Musk & Trump”. Talkin’ up a revolution thru the words out of his anus and spewing them out of his mouth ‘Ol Markey is gonna get himself arrested on federal and/or possibly some serious state charges of inciting riot/mayhem and murder conspiracy charges for threatening and/or advocating violence aimed at Musk and/or Pres. Trump, which itself is a life NO PAROLE type of crime. So go on and keep it up Senator IDIOT, many of us would like to see you with a new friend or love interest named Bubba…………forever!
it’s funny how he invokes “no taxation without representation”, since he’s representing the party that never said ‘no’ to any new tax.
I’m old enough to remember, before history was rewritten, the reason the Civil was started. The slavery issue was raised long after the war started. Not that that wasn’t needed to be addressed, but knowing real facts instead of rewritten “made up” facts is important. If you want the real facts, do your research and stop believing every thing you HEAR!
Am implied call for violence by Democrats in the Senate and House is not just from theT##d Markey. Recall that earlier Sen Schumer also indirectly threatened violence against several SCOTUS Justices that think involved the issue regarding the Dobbs v Jackson decision on abortion. Additionally, I recall that several Democrat members of the U.S. House of Representatives have made implied threats of violence against Trump Administration personnel.
Apparently, you were taught at a young age that “slavery caused the Civil War”. If you still hold on to that, I invite you to read “Lincoln Uncensored” and see if that “fact” still passes the smell test.
Nasty old God hating America hating truth hating Evil COMMUNIST