Seventy-two killed resisting gun
confiscation in Boston!
Boston – National Guard units
seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed by
elements of a Para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement
sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before
government forces were compelled to withdraw.
Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts
Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of
local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement.
Gage blamed the extremists for recent
incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor,
who described the group’s organizers as “criminals,” issued an executive order
authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the
government’s efforts to secure law and order.
The military raid on the extremist
arsenal followed wide-spread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over
recently outlawed assault weapons.
Gage issued a ban on military-style
assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a
meeting in early this month between government and military leaders at which
the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms.
One government official, speaking on
condition of anonymity, pointed out that “none of these people would have been
killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned over their weapons
voluntarily.”
Government troops initially succeeded
in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition. However,
troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance
from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the
government’s plans.
During a tense standoff in the
Lexington town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the
government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their
homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by
one of the right-wing extremists.
Eight civilians were killed in the
ensuing exchange.
Ironically, the local citizenry blamed government
forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths. Before order could
be restored, armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended upon the guard
units. Colonel Smith, finding his forces over matched by the armed mob, ordered
a retreat.
Governor Gage has called upon citizens
to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and
order. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for
planning and leading the attack against the government troops.
Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John
Hancock, who have been identified as “ringleaders” of the extremist faction,
remain at large.
And this fellow Americans, is how the
American Revolution began, April 20, 1775.
On July 4th, 1776 these same extremists
signed the Declaration of Independence, pledging to each other and their
countrymen their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. Many of them lost
everything, including their families and their lives over the course of the
next few years.
Lest we forget…
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