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Kick Open The Doorway To Liberty: What Are We Waiting For?
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“The greatness of America lies in the right to protest for right.”—Martin Luther King Jr.
Everything this nation once stood for is being turned on its head.
Free speech, religious expression, privacy, due process, bodily integrity, the sanctity of human life, the sovereignty of the family, individuality, the right to self-defense, protection against police abuses, representative government, private property, human rights - the very ideals that once made this nation great - have become casualties of a politically correct, misguided, materialistic, amoral, militaristic culture.
Indeed, I’m having a hard time reconciling the America I know and love with the America being depicted in the daily news headlines, where corruption, cronyism and abuse have taken precedence over the rights of the citizenry and the rule of law.
What kind of country do we live in where it’s acceptable for police to shoot unarmed citizens, for homeowners to be jailed for having overgrown lawns (a Texas homeowner was actually sentenced to 17 days in jail and fined $1700 for having an overgrown lawn), for kids to be tasered and pepper sprayed for acting like kids at school (many are left with health problems ranging from comas and asthma to cardiac arrest), and for local governments to rake in hefty profits under the guise of traffic safety (NPR reports that police departments across the country continue to require quotas for arrests and tickets, a practice that is illegal but in effect)?
Why should we Americans have to put up with the government listening in on our phone calls, spying on our emails, subjecting us to roadside strip searches, and generally holding our freedoms hostage in exchange for some phantom promises of security?
As I document in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, it doesn’t matter where you live—big city or small town—it’s the same scenario being played out over and over again in which government agents ride roughshod over the rights of the citizenry.
In such an environment, it’s not just our Fourth Amendment rights—which protect us against police abuses—that are being trampled. It’s also our First Amendment rights to even voice concern over these practices that are being muzzled. Just consider some of the First Amendment battles that have taken place in recent years, and you too will find yourself wondering what country you’re living in:
- Harold Hodge was arrested for standing silently in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building, holding a sign in protest of police tactics.
- Marine Brandon Raub was arrested for criticizing the government on Facebook.
- Pastor Michael Salman was arrested for holding Bible studies in his home.
- Steven Howards was arrested for being too close to a government official when he voiced his disapproval of the war in Iraq.
- Kenneth Webber was fired from his job as a schoolbus driver for displaying a Confederate flag on the truck he uses to drive from home to school and back.
- Fred Marlow was arrested for filming a SWAT team raid that took place across from his apartment.
And then there were the three California high school public school students who were ordered to turn their American flag t-shirts inside out on May 5 (Cinco de Mayo) because school officials were afraid it might cause a disruption and/or offend Hispanic students. Incredibly, the U.S. Supreme Court actually sided with the school and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming that it might be disruptive for American students to wear the American flag to an American public school.
While there are all kinds of labels being put on so-called “unacceptable” speech today, from calling it politically incorrect and hate speech to offensive and dangerous speech, the real message being conveyed is that Americans don’t have a right to express themselves if what they are saying is unpopular, controversial or at odds with what the government determines to be acceptable.
Whether it’s through the use of so-called “free speech zones,” the requirement of speech permits, the policing of online forums, or a litany of laws and policies that criminalize expressive activities, what we’re seeing is the caging of free speech and the asphyxiation of the First Amendment.
Long before the menace of the police state, with its roadside strip searches, surveillance drones, and SWAT team raids, it was our First Amendment rights that were being battered by political correctness, hate crime legislation, the war on terror and every other thinly veiled rationale used to justify censoring our free speech rights.
By suppressing free speech, the government is contributing to a growing underclass of Americans who are being told that they can't take part in American public life unless they “fit in.” Mind you, it won’t be long before anyone who believes in holding the government accountable to respecting our rights and abiding by the rule of law is labeled an “extremist” and is relegated to an underclass that doesn’t fit in and must be watched all the time.
It doesn’t matter how much money you make, what politics you subscribe to, or what God you worship: we are all potential suspects, terrorists and lawbreakers in the eyes of the government.
In other words, if and when this nation falls to tyranny, we will all suffer the same fate: we will fall together. However, if it is possible to avert such an outcome, it will rest in us remembering that we are also all descendants of those early American revolutionaries who pushed back against the abuses of the British government. These people were neither career politicians nor government bureaucrats. Instead, they were mechanics, merchants, artisans and the like—ordinary people groaning under the weight of Britain’s oppressive rule—who, having reached a breaking point, had decided that enough was enough.
The colonists’ treatment at the hands of the British was not much different from the abuses meted out to the American people today: they too were taxed on everything from food to labor without any real say in the matter, in addition to which they had their homes invaded by armed government agents, their property seized and searched, their families terrorized, their communications, associations and activities monitored, and their attempts to defend themselves and challenge the government’s abuses dismissed as belligerence, treachery, and sedition.
Unlike most Americans today, who remain ignorant of the government’s abuses, cheerfully distracted by the entertainment spectacles trotted out before them by a complicit media, readily persuaded that the government has their best interests at heart, and easily cowed by the slightest show of force, the colonists responded to the government’s abuses with outrage, activism and rebellion. They staged boycotts of British goods and organized public protests, mass meetings, parades, bonfires and other demonstrations, culminating with their most famous act of resistance, the Boston Tea Party.
On the night of December 16, 1773, a group of men dressed as Indians boarded three ships that were carrying tea. Cheered on by a crowd along the shore, they threw 342 chests of tea overboard in protest of a tax on the tea. Many American merchants were aghast at the wanton destruction of property. A town meeting in Bristol, Massachusetts, condemned the action. Ben Franklin even called on his native city to pay for the tea and apologize. But as historian Pauline Maier notes, the Boston Tea Party was a last resort for a group of people who had stated their peaceful demands but were rebuffed by the British: “The tea resistance constituted a model of justified forceful resistance upon traditional criteria.”
The rest, as they say, is history. Yet it’s a history we cannot afford to forget or allow to be rewritten.
The colonists suffered under the weight of countless tyrannies before they finally were emboldened to stand their ground. They attempted to reason with the British crown, to plea their cause, even to negotiate. It was only when these means proved futile that they resorted to outright resistance, civil disobedience and eventually rebellion.
More than 200 years later, we are once again suffering under a long train of abuses and usurpations. What Americans today must decide is how committed they are to the cause of freedom and how far they’re willing to go to restore what has been lost.
Nat Hentoff, one of my dearest friends and a formidable champion of the Constitution, has long advocated for the resurgence of grassroots activism. As Nat noted:
This resistance to arrant tyranny first became part of our heritage when Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty formed the original Committees of Correspondence, a unifying source of news of British tyranny throughout the colonies that became a precipitating cause of the American Revolution. Where are the Sons of Liberty, the Committees of Correspondence and the insistently courageous city councils now, when they are crucially needed to bring back the Bill of Rights that protect every American against government tyranny worse than King George III’s? Where are the citizens demanding that these doorways to liberty be opened … What are we waiting for?
What are we waiting for, indeed?
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constitutional convention of the state legislatures?
It will begin within three days after EBT cards are held back.
do it NOW....
Love of liberty is innate, as is love of government, and America was founded with a strong influence of liberty and individualism. By the mid-1800s, the liberal/socialist immigrants, mainly European, had made inroads towards displacing the Jeffersonians in the Democrat party. At the end of the century the takeover was almost complete, the Republicans acknowledged their newfound opponent: the liberal/socialists, and the homeless Jeffersonians (libertarians) loosely aligned with Dems or Repubs. The result was the 20th century's constant left-right assault, destroying freedom, liberty, individualism, small government, the gold standard, capitalism, the middle-class, and of course, the libertarian-ish constitution.
That's where things stand today, and nothing is going to bring back what was. Not education, not elections, not revolution, not evolution, not even all out nuclear war. America's fate is sealed and has been for a very long time.
john whitehead of the RUTHERFORD group? haha, total tool, he has stood in the way of freedom since at least the 90's. oh yeah get us to shoot ! at who? you know there are murder squads twiddleing their thumbs with no one to kill. get us to give them some targets ! so tyranny can lock down good. thanks.
Are you able to elaborate on your assertion about Whitehead? Maybe he lit the fuse on 9/11. Is he a Jooo or something?
Love of liberty is NOT innate: Growing Welfare rolls show love of IDLENESS is what's innate.
Do today's "yoof" LOOK LIKE they Carry The Torch of Liberty - as if it's automatic?
There's only so many Choke-Points in USG Money Control http://wp.me/p2kmGE-4jl
I'm just waiting for enough people that share that same opinion.
Scratch that, I'm waiting for enough ACTION oriented people to share that opinion. There are very, very few of those people...
Which is odd, considering how many people are completely unemployed.
Copy the article and email to all your friends and dare them to send it to them to all their friends. Send it to the PTA, your church, your "fill-in the blank" organization.
I did. It has to start with mind share and shaking people out of their debt fueled, money printed stupor.
Not gonna happen. they just gonna keep printing and the value of everyones life (and dollars) will keep eroding until we become Venezuela, there is not going to be a revolution for a long time I am betting
Agreed. It will be a slow and gradual death. The TPTB, still want to enjoy what they have till they cannot. So nothing rapid imo unless false flagged or WWIII and the sheeple will never do shit. They have successfully turned americans into chemically subdued zombies.
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Where do these fucking clowns come from?
You might want to change your avatar before asking such a question.
What is that supposed to mean?
Hey guys, don't mess around with the Space Balls.
They're the masters of space...
Probably a government program to sidetrack comments.
Is a Black / MINO revolution a real revolution at all?
With blacks you got Africa. With mexicans you get...mexico
I think the Article 5 convention needs 7 more states to pass.
Really? And what Statesmen do we have today that would be elected by the near-illiterate mass?
We would have the same crop of politicians we have today setting a new foundation that provides for their benefit, not ours.
There will be no Constitutional Convention until there has been a LOT of blood shed...by both patriots and tyrants.
Constitutional Convention aka ""Con-Con". The Constitution is just fine as written. Be careful of what you ask for. You might get more, less or something different than what you expect.
You do not understand the process at all...
What process?
And yes, I junked you for making such an open ended non-sequitur.
"The Constitution is just fine as written."
Pfft. We need to revert to the Articles of Confederation. Federal Gov's power to tax has to go. One of many things that need changed.
And that's a part of the problem. The whole deal is too unweildy and there are some major historical divides that probably can't be overcome. The country will break up rather than consolidate in kicking some ass. The latest really good excuse for a major uprising came with Citizens United. A few people are screaming in hindsight but where were they before that sucker got through?
fuk da fudgepacker who doubled down & accelerated all this horseshit against tax paying lae abiding US citizens... all this done by a pathological lying myslim turd not even born in this country...
College/University students will revolt after enough of'em get F's but still owe $60K each in outstanding student loans.
Freedom will only be fought for here when there is nothing left to lose.
As said above, "when the EBT cards are held back," and that won't happen 'til they've taken everything from everyone else.
It's gonna be a long time coming so live and love the best you can.
OK, a red meat article, obviously.
But to the question at hand: what are we waiting for? I don't know. How about a time when resistance would mean something and not be instantly crushed under the iron fist of the police state?
Not sure if the author has noticed, but this shit is in its ASCENDANCY, not in it's decline. March peacefully on Washington and you will be ignored, your message distorted into the opposite of what you intend by the MSM. Take up arms and you'll be gunned down in the streets without mercy (since you are obviously a terrorist). Go Galt and you will spend the rest of your life in prison or on the run.
No opportunity exists currently. That will change. Prepare, teach your children (and grandchildren) and be alert for the first cracks to appear in the authoritarian wall.
As was said, above, 3 days after the EBT cards stop working would be a pretty obvious starting point. There will be other less-obvious signs before that, though.
But, but Kim Kardashian
exactly xq...
In 1773 the literacy rate in America was much higher. I used to have fantasies that there would be a mass uprising...our finest hour and all that, but now I realize that we are basically fucked.
Yep... nothing really to see here, this society isnt revolting against shit, and the FED is never going to stop printing until the dollar is worthless, we have a ways to go before this puppy explodes
No it wasn't. Where do you guys get this ludicrous stuff?
Well, De toqueville around 1820 is close enough, plus the book compiling letters written home by civil war soldiers.
When you realize people with no compulsory education are smarter than the kids of today...
You suddenly have your answer for why everything is so broken.
Everything is illegal, just STFU and keep paying taxes.
This is what happens when everyone is paid to look the other way through various funding mechanisms, handouts, tax incentives, etc.......
I am tired of it.
The more I learn, the more I believe Chris Bollyn is right about everything. Sorry Israel, the jig is up.
Israel did 911 along with American traitors.
Arrest the perpetrators NOW.
You didn't get Gordon Duff's memo, eh? BrainStem activated...
Right on cue the Zionist shill Christopher Bollyn came out and attacked Gordon for being a “Disinfo Toad” for supporting the WTC Nuclear Demolition Hypothesis. Of course Chris wasn’t able to refute the evidence for fission and fusion at Ground Zero.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/06/28/deconstructing-christopher-bolly...
months ago i member a jewish fool called falconshite
seems like your still alive moshe
if bollyn is zionist shill he seems to be giving up many rabbi and naming names.
Christopher Bollyn 2015 “Solving 911 Ends the War”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP_Ezjm7xDg
fuck the joos, they have no use for us other than to serve them like slaves.
My Kosher toilet needs a little more scrubbing from you if you want some scraps from the Human's table. Up to you
Child raping pleobytes.
Not sure whether it was nuclear or demolition by thermite charges -doesn't matter. It was an inside job.
where did all the rubble go and how come saudi passports survived
weird
and how come at 3.20 abc tv cannot figure out how to stop down a camera iris that is over exposing the images of the lack of rubble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrXKhcO_7fc
If you are an American and you believe this, why aren't you taking individual action to pay 'them' back?
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If people actually believe 3,000 were murdered by or with the consent of the US Gov't, why aren't they laying down their lives and killing every gov't/media pig they can touch? Seriously
Because we would lose. Contrary to what Hollywood tells you, there's no glory in getting into a fight you can't win.
.....and the Chosenites were right in the middle of it.
Kids tazered and pepper sprayed in school? Prior to about twenty five years ago (or so) - a teacher could have a paddle in many schools. Pulling out the paddle and placing it on the front chalkboard ledge got instant cooperation and quiet in the classroom. Although there were a handful of weirdo teachers, most teachers rarely ever had to use those paddles. Today, the teachers can't touch or restrain students - so the only options left are to 'talk gently' or go to tazers and pepper spray! Especially since few parents teach their children to respect other adults like teachers.
1) No adult should be responsible for 25 7-year-olds without help.
2) No 7-year-old should be sitting on his/her ass in a classroom for the better part of 8 hours.
3) Respect has to be earned. "respect them cus they're older" is horseshit.
Study indigenous cultures. Kids basically get to do whatever the fuck they want... and they have far fewer problems with mental illness in adulthood. The way we raise children in our culture is abusive.
I still haven't figured out what exactly it is going to take to all blow up out of control. I keep thinking a big bang, but reality tells me it will be a whisper event. Something overlooked.
Something like forgetting to put pickles on my fucking super-sized double bacon cheeseburger........
Something like defunding EBT/SNAP cards.
What do you think would happen if 93 million unemployed Americans had to take their families and stand in soup lines to get something to eat......No heat for their homes....no cable television....no porn,....no money for Air Jordans,...no Section 8 rent subsidies,.............etc.
The Soetoro promulgated Invasion of the Job Snatchers won't be enough to arouse the Americans as long as the welfare state remains viable and the FED keeps printing fiat to mollify the drugsucking masses.......War, we need more War! We need to keep our patriotic and able young men overseas where they are not a threat to the U.S. Government.
The U.S. Government, under the control of ZOG, is the most insidious, powerful and dangerous enemy the American People have ever faced. And most of the American People don't even realize that they have almost been defeated and subdued..........More pot!!!!....More Pot!......
To do something you have to go out and get pepper sprayed, bit by police dogs and shot. Maybe somebody will make robots that protest. They could drop dog poop on them via robot helicoptors.
brilliant, thanks for the heads up captain obvious
Life is still too comfortable for most. That and the government school systems are training the boys/young men to be feminine little things. All they know are cat fights and scratching someone's eyes out.
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When is it going to be the time, that you'll start thinking about the time, that it'll be the time to start pushing back, hard?
And how hard will you push back?
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V-V
Just kick it on down the road like we do everything else in this fucked up world.......
I'm convinced at this point that Americans will never, ever fight for their Constitutional Rights.
They Thought They Were Free The Germans, 1933-45 Milton MayerJohn, I feel ya pain. However, until you are ready to fight and die for the good ol u.s.a., get ready for worse.
are you ready?
1776 was when the people of America gained independence. They lost their independence ultimately on December 23rd, 1913 wiht the creation of the Federal Reserve. It took a while but the powers that be got control of you again and now you are being driven to destruction. It looks like it's going to take something similar to what happened before 1776 to get control of your Country again. The world is hoping and praying you can do it.
Independence from Britain 1783. Subjects of .gov 1788.
And the pendulums slowly swing...
Ain't corruption a bitch?
The Hebrew God's angels needed the excuse of corruption to level the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. God needed the corruption of men as an excuse to wipe away humanity with the flood.
It's kind of like the FBI entrapping idiots in their preplanned terror plots ... or allowing porn to be rampant and uncensored on the internet and then condemning people of looking at it.
The only thing missing is the trigger event.
I'm sorry if it doesn't fit in your box, hal. Maybe if you'd grow a pair of nostrils you could smell what your enemies had in store for you and duck, hoping for the best.
In other words the USA has become a murderous, greedy, unlawful , unconstitutional fascist hellhole.
Terrorist, a sponsor of terrorism and the most evil nation in our recorded history as a planet.
The rest of the world can see it.
Either the yanks are slow learners or they just don't care.
Pay backs a bitch.
And its overdue.
And there are billions who agree and can't wait.
The land of ZOG is devolving at an ever-increasing rate. The Chosenites are almost ready to collapse the Western World and install their Luciferian Emperor of the NWO.
If you don't understand that, you have scales over your eyes and cannot perceive the truth. The faux-Jew bankster/Babylonians are about to bring hell on earth to all of us......worldwide......But only for a short while.
The kids are trained from a young age to demand that others - the state, the school, parents - do everything for them so they don't have to think for themselves. It only gets worse in college where people feel they have the right to not be offended or uncomfortable. This is antithetical to liberty so the bulk of the population is basically anti-liberty, anti-freedom.
To look towards where the corruption and insanity starts..............which Satanic Tribe controls the media, Wall St, orders Congress and the Senate around, controls the Democratic Party, corrupts and disrupts the political process in the USA, controls the porn industy, controls the music industy, etc...?
Start by destroying that corrosive influence, and you can start to bring back America!
and controls the Republican Party.
what we are waiting for is doofus americanus to grow a pair and to get off her dumbed down sanctimonious deluded chickenshit lard ass to wake up and actually give a fuck.
Wouldn't it be ironic if fascism is introduced to America by a black U. S. President, a black U. S. Attorney General, and a black U. S, Secretary of Homeland Security?
Gullible blacks and silly women make convenient puppets/patsies.
How did so many blacks and women get appointed to high positions?
Affirmative Action, PC, and racial bias by Barry Soetoro and his coven of demons. Anybody who doesn't understand that Soetoro's purpose is to diminish and destroy the USA just isn't paying attention.......or is one of the imbecilic Black Scourge, that is, The Living Brain-Dead.
We should have picked our own cotton.
911 and the Patriot act took place under a white male pres.
21st Century Reconstruction?
Americans are the most over armed population in the world. They flock to gun shows to buy more guns and ammunition than anyone will ever use or need in their lives just because it is their "right". Yet, walk up to most anyone of them and ask them to recite merely the Preamble to the Constition of the United States of America and they will attempt to laugh you off. The truth be known the vast majority of them have never killed anything in their lives, not even a sick dog and never will, because they are cowards. How many of them since the withdrawl of miltary conscription after Viet Nam have served in the armed forces? That number is miniscule in comparison to the size of the population. As with everthing else in their lives they want and demand that someone else do the nasty business of killing, especially of eliminating corrupt politicians and public officials. That is like asking demanding that Cancer cure itself.
No matter how many guns they own they will never be a solution to the average Americans problem which the politicians, the unions, the bankers, the lethal enemies and the international elite are all too aware of...COWARDICE.
So they will go back to playing their violent video games to exhibit their individual killing prowess to be admired by othe menbers of the Cult of Cowardice. It sad when children today have bigger balls than their fathers'. That is if they even know who their father.
Your myopic take on this subject outed you as a babbling moron... tough guy moron.
not much will change until things get much much worse. americans are largely sissified pajamaboys at this point, having been indoctrinated by public schools that teach mindless obediance to their benevolent 'uncle' sam while encouraging them to sit on their fat asses sucking flaturin off their fingers and watching american piehole instead of being active participants in their own government
Started off by a quote from MLK=did not read.
Solution: Stop feeding your captors!
and the rule of law.
What do you suppose that is ... with 40,000 new ones every year?
(NPR reports that police departments across the country continue to require quotas for arrests and tickets, a practice that is illegal but in effect)?
Do you have a red light camera money machine in your neighborhood?
Why should we Americans have to put up with the government listening in on our phone calls, spying on our emails, subjecting us to roadside strip searches, and generally holding our freedoms hostage in exchange for some phantom promises of security?
Why should captives have to put up with their captors ... let alone feed and comfort them? (the memory of 9/11).
You do know the penalty for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
If only we were all the Surratts.
http://articles.philly.com/1986-12-21/news/26069695_1_surratt-society-to...
Comparing today's New Normal to 18th century rebellion and war of independence is not helping anyone. Who gives a shit what happened over 200 yrs. ago?,,,I certainly don't, even if my personal heritage can be traced back to Chesapeake Bay and further yet, those genealogies are nice for old ladies and pregnant women.
So you call for revolution, as perhaps we all do in our own hearts, but a revolution is at it's core a coalition and communication of it's members. As your article blatantly points out, that is not possible, lest ye be throttled before you even get in your car to 'do something'.
Call it apathetic if you want, but you would be wrong. The surveillance/police state is self-evident and your in it, all of you. And what exactly can you do, except keep your head down? Did Saddam Hussein stick up his head, or Snowden, or that Wikileaks guy, or MLK? Try sticking your head up, an get it shot off, it has been like this for a long time now. Are the mindless troopers already staged in every corridor, with their remote controlled weapons well practiced, full of self hate, and able to rock & roll across this very continent, ~~and there isn't a thing you can do about it~~~.
Blame the EBT people if you want, but they are not the ones financially supporting this cutthroat regime. An it certainly isn't the EBT people that is pushing their surveillance and domination down your throat. It is you tax payers that pay the tribute to the regime, with the color of your money, every year you pay like a slot machine...not the EBT people, and those that refuse to pay tribute, as much as it be possible.
That red, white, & blue rag stands for something, just stick your head up to find out what.
wwxx
Long before the menace of the police state, with its roadside strip searches, surveillance drones, and SWAT team raids, it was our First Amendment rights that were being battered by political correctness, hate crime legislation, the war on terror and every other thinly veiled rationale used to justify censoring our free speech rights.
When you look at the Commerce Clause in the US Constitution and its obvious meaning ... and how that meaning has been rationalized and corrupted to bring us the massive Federal government we now are forced to tolerate, we need to re-examine our rationalization of the First Amendment to that Constitution.
Just like the camel's nose got under the commerce clause tent (and the camel now occupies the tent), it has gotten under the free speech tent.
I think we need to recognize that it is "constitutionally legal to yell fire in crowded theater". Ugly as that prospect is, it pales in comparison to what that rationalization of the obvious is bringing us.
In other words, if and when this nation falls to tyranny, we will all suffer the same fate: we will fall together.
If and when? Why did WTC7 fall down?
On the night of December 16, 1773, a group of men dressed as Indians boarded three ships that were carrying tea. Cheered on by a crowd along the shore, they threw 342 chests of tea overboard in protest of a tax on the tea.
And then you have the Mountain Meadows Massacre ... same disguise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_massacre
Tyler Durden for president ! ! !