“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” -Sir Winston Churchill

What are our politicians saying?

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) “When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in. That’s just human nature.”

A difference of Opinion

(CNN) Former U.S. Marines Cpl. Joshua Boston wrote a letter to Senator Feinstein regarding her proposed Assault Weapons Ban.

I will not register my weapons should this bill be passed, as I do not believe it is the government’s right to know what I own. Nor do I think it prudent to tell you what I own so that it may be taken from me by a group of people who enjoy armed protection yet decry me having the same a crime. You ma’am have overstepped a line that is not your domain. I am a Marine Corps Veteran of 8 years, and I will not have some woman who proclaims the evil of an inanimate object, yet carries one, tell me I may not have one.

Boston went on to say that he is not a “subject,” “servant” or “peasant” and should not be punished because of the acts of an evil man. “I will not be disarmed to suit the fear that has been established by the media and your misinformation campaign against the American public.”
I wonder if all Marines feel the same way?

Many conservatives simply wish to be left to pursue their lives under the umbrella of the US Constitution. That’s something that progressive people find unacceptable. Enacting laws to shove people who wish to be left alone, to live and let live, gives the progressive movement its wings, Bill of Rights or no Bill of Rights.

There are a lot of veterans in America bitterly clinging to God and guns. Of those people, most can shoot the eye out of a squirrel at at least 800 meters. They were trained to do that by the government that brought you a number of sequential wars. Some of them were “small wars” some of them were “large wars” but the United States has been in an at-war posture for many decades now. The “bitter clingers” simply wish to be left alone.  A hunter in New York was asked why he didn’t feel that he needed an assault weapon. He replied that the government agents who might wish to confiscate firearms were well supplied with that armament, web gear, magazines and ammunition and that if one wanted an assault rifle, one was there for the taking. 

A Brief List of Wars that the US has been involved in since 1950. Keep in mind that there are small wars – ‘brush wars’ – where the US sent special forces that are not included here. Never the less, the US has been turning out guys who cash checks and snap necks for a very long time. Yes, the US has built themselves some mighty fine killers.

1947-1991
First Indochina War or
French Indochina War
Korean War or
Korean Conflict 
1950-1953
Second Indochina War or
Vietnam War or
Vietnam Conflict
Laotian Civil War or
Secret War
1953-1975
Laos Pathet Lao
North Vietnam North Vietnam
1958 Lebanon crisis or
Operation Blue Bat
Invasion of the Dominican Republic or
Operation Power Pack
1965-1966
 Dominican Republic

Invasion of Grenada or
Operation Urgent Fury
1983
 Greneda
 Cuba
1982-1984
Flag of Druze.svg Druze miltia
 Syria
Gulf of Sidra incidentor
First Gulf of Sidra Incident
1981
Action in the Gulf of Sidra or
Operation Prairie Fire
1986
Libya LibyaMarch 

Bombing of Libya or
Operation El Dorado Canyon
1986
1987-1988
 Iran1987–1988
1989 Gulf of Sidra incident or
Second Gulf of Sidra Incident
1989
1989-1990
Gulf War or
Persian Gulf War or
Operation Desert Storm
1990-1991
 Iraq
1991-2003
Iraq Iraq
Includes:
Somali Civil War or
Operation Restore Hope
1992-1994
Somalia Various Somali factions
1993-1995
1994-1995

Bombings of Afghanistan and Sudan or
Operation Infinite Reach
1998
Kosovo War or
Operation Allied Force or
Operation Noble Anvil
1999
Renamed by Obama: Foreign Contingency Operation
2001-Present

Operation Enduring Freedom
Part of the War on TerrorIn Afghanistan:
In the Philippines:
In Somalia:
In Sahara:

7 October 2001 – presentConflicts ongoing;

  • Insurgent groups:
2001 Invasion of Afghanistan – Ongoing

Flag of Jihad.svg Jemaah Islamiyah
Flag of Jihad.svg Abu Sayyaf
Flag of Jihad.svg Rajah Sulaiman Movement
Flag of al-Qaeda in Iraq.svg al-Qaeda

Operation Enduring Freedom – Horn of Africa 
2002 – Ongoing
Somali Civil War‘ Pirates:
2002- Ongoing
  • Somali Marines
  • National Volunteer Coast Guard (NVCG)
  • Marka group
  • Puntland Group



Second Liberian Civil War
2003
Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy
Movement for Democracy in Liberia

Operation Enduring Freedom – Trans Sahara
2007- Ongoing

Iraq War
2003-2011

War in North-West Pakistanor
Operation Freedom Eagle
2004- Ongoing
2011- OngoingLibya Libyan Arab Jamahiriya:
This list does not include US involvement in “secret wars”. There were a number of those and even though the personnel involved were comparatively few, there was a great deal of training and experience received.

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8 COMMENTS

  1. Thanks for the positive spin on this darkest of times in our history. Those who are actively dismantling our Constitution in order to bring about the fundamental change to Tyrany will have a tough road to hoe to suceed just because of these former military patriots. Though the elitists do not care about the oaths they took when they entered office to uphold and defend the US Constitution, those who fought bravely in the trenches take this oath very seriously. Those politicians never had to eke it out in the trenches or put their own lives on the line in any meaningful way. The numerous conflicts you have listed show just how many of these serious constitutional American loving patriot are out, like that marine you highlite……

  2. There are still patriots, and though the Constitution hangs by a thread, it's still there and some of the people who swore an oath to protect it against all enemies, both foreign and domestic remember what they promised.

  3. "We," that is a majority of Americans – some actually citizens – elected this democrat president and his lackeys. The opposite party is only somewhat better (We'll take what we can get), but it IS better. There are now more people than ever who just can't wait to turn this country into a third world hell-hole. They don't seem to realize that when the bad guys take over, they will be the first targets; not realizing that under such a government even their protests will be greeted by gunfire.

  5. I took a 'special' tour of the Holocaust Museum. It showed how the police first reacted to the rise of the Nazis and Hitler, and their warnings of his agenda…and then how they became a part of it. I was insulted when the 'guest speaker' from the ADL said that an un-lawful order should not be followed, and yet he NEVER once mentioned the US Constitution.

    I believe that the large majority of federal law enforcement officers would be considered 'on the Right,' and that they too cling to there POWs…but you never know.

  7. It would be nice if you checked your facts. Feinstein never said that. The 'quote' came from a Parody piece (think: The Onion) on a Tea Party blog.

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