"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."
"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.
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Tom Knighton is a Navy veteran, a former newspaperman, a novelist, and a blogger and lifetime shooter. He lives with his family in Southwest Georgia.
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