Gun Toting Townhaller on Obama Route Calls For Blood

[Joanne98]

A gun toting and displaying man waiting on the route President Obama will be taking to a town hall is carrying a sign calling for blood.

The sign states:
"Time to Water the tree of Liberty."

That's what the sign says-- a fragment of a quote from Thomas Jefferson. The total quote reads,


"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure."

This was written in a letter from Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, November 13, 1787

The sign is clearly a reference to spilling blood. Tie that together with a gunman openly displaying his gun on the path President Obama will be taking to his town hall and you have to wonder about the local lawmen who are allowing this display.

Is this a test the NRA has put in place? Is it simply another ratcheting up of the tension and anger around health care? Is it simply a hyper-macho protester showing off his phallic symbol?

Gun rights do not extend to brandishing guns in the presence of the president. Any fool who choses to do so should lose his gun ownership privileges.

Rob Kall is executive editor, publisher and site architect of OpEdNews.com, President of Futurehealth, Inc, more...)

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Gun-Toting-Townhaller-on-O-by-Rob-Kall-090811-985.html

[eleny]

1. They don't say if the Secret Service removed the man from the scene

:scared:

MSNBC just reported that he was never removed and was 100 yards and one building away form where the president entered the building.

That's a major crock of crap. If it's the president or any member of Congress for that matter, the individual ought to be removed from the scene. I don't care what state law says about unconcealed carrying.

[MineralMan]

2. I suspect there was a Secret Service guy standing right next

to this moron.

[rd_kent]

3. You are way late Joanne, there a several threads already on this.

[E_Pluribus_Unitarian]

4. MSNBC said that the law enforcement and SS kept a close eye...

...on him, but NH law allows for openly carrying of registered firearms in public areas. The man was mainly looking for a confrontation over 2nd Amendment rights, but didn't get it (except for the media attention). I'm sure there were some law enforcement right around him the whole time he was there, though.

[JohnWxy]

5. If these guns rights types are so hot to shoot, why didn't they jump at the chance to go to IRAQ

this last decade? If they didn't want to go into the marines or army they could have gotten high paying jobs with Blackwater. Hell, they would have plenty of opportunities to shoot at people.

......Oh, I see. I guess the chance that someone might shoot back at you sorta takes the fun out of brandishing a weapon.

[caraher]

6. Heck, if it had been Bush and the dude just had a sign...

they would have have hauled him away. But that's only the First Amendment at stake, not the sacred Second.

[Paladin]

7. Guys Like This One Never Turn Up At Republican Functions.

His purpose was the rank intimidation of Democrats---and he'll find plenty of support from DU's resident gun rights cadre.....