Barricades At WW II Memorial Are Back

by JASmius

I hate to pee all over such a rousing and inspirational post as this one's immediate predecessor - well, apart from where Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz twang hamstrings to get in front of the press cameras.  I seem to remember that the very premise, the very raison de tere of the Tea Party was precisely that it had no leaders and no need of any.  It was entirely, organically a grassroots phenomenon, and as such was genetically suspicious of anybody who would presume to aspire to lift themselves above their ranks.  Then along come 'cuda and then Cruz, doing precisely that, and somehow TPers have become lemming-like followers, slavishly devoted to the ambitious pols they once would have disdained, scrupulously blind to their amply clay feet.  What would you call that, my Tea Party friends?  The new price of admission?

At any rate, the actionable punchline was spot-on target: "The battle ended.  The war has just begun."

And the Regime just raised the ante once again:





A commenter on Patriot Action Network posted the following:

Time to retake the hill.  The vets were not even out of DC and the brown shirts put the barrycades back.

It is a damned shame.  Vets earned the Memorials.  CIVILIANS should be making sure the Memorials stay open.

Couch potatoes need to get off their couches and take those barriers down and stand guard, if necessary.  The white house apparently wants to turn this into a war they cannot win.

Delete the last three words of that last sentence and she would have hit the bullseye.  Representative-In-Waiting Gibbs pointed out that the weekend confrontation included multiple units of police in riot combat gear with (presumably) armed helicopters flying overhead.  Had the truckers not shown up, one wonders how far it would have escalated.  And now that even bigger Barry-cades have been erected, what is to be the response?  An even bigger "Veterans' Revolt"?  Semis running down the riot police and smashing through the barriers?  Seems to me that that is precisely what the Spite House is attempting to provoke.  Or perhaps an unarmed wave of humanity that by sheer mass drives the cops back, unless and until one of them goes Kent State on the crowd's patriotic asses?

A Facebook friend of mine posted pics of the rally over the weekend and I only half tongue-in-cheek commented, "Are those Predator drones coming in over those trees?"  We all know Thomas Jefferson's quotation: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."  It is that of the former that is looking to be inevitable, because I don't think at this point that King Hussein will have any reluctance about spilling it.