Sir: I was intimately involved with the planning, decision making and production of the 2nd Amend March here in Westcliffe. There was NO intention of any civil disobedience in the planning of the parade. A local conservative activist group (good people) had offered to contact the Oath Keepers (and several others) and invite them to join. When that happened, we were informed that these organizations (and some people) wanted to perform some acts of civil disobedience (eg, giving out high cap mags, etc) during the activities. We discussed this with our Sheriff and he wasn't too hot on it. We had invited other Colorado Sheriff's to the event and he and us thought it would be disrespectful to the other Sheriffs. Also, please not that the our rally was a 2nd Amendment March AND a Support Our Sheriff's March (in support of the Colorado Sheriff's lawsuit against our new state unconstitutional gun laws passed here recently). We really had no problem with out of state groups or individuals coming ( a lot did show up), but did not want to put the invited Sheriffs in a potential media problem. We had a lot of issues with some local libs to get this going here and this disobedience issue was not one we wanted - at least for this year. In the end, the parade was a HUGE success. Head count right around 500, thousands of people showed up to watch (largest crowd ever), no incidents of any kind, and a great video segment on KOAA tv out of Colorado Springs. It was really inspirational, especially when we all sang "God Bless America" at the rally at the end of parade. I thank you for you interest and patriotism. Please don't take our avoidance of the civil disobedience acts as a sign of cowardice - it would have caused huge problems with our initial plans and how we presented it the community. God Bless, George.
So, what's the big deal here? Guns were among the things John Adams recommended in 1776 when he rattled off a list of things future Americans could use to commemorate independence.
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Sir: I was intimately involved with the planning, decision making and production of the 2nd Amend March here in Westcliffe. There was NO intention of any civil disobedience in the planning of the parade. A local conservative activist group (good people) had offered to contact the Oath Keepers (and several others) and invite them to join. When that happened, we were informed that these organizations (and some people) wanted to perform some acts of civil disobedience (eg, giving out high cap mags, etc) during the activities. We discussed this with our Sheriff and he wasn't too hot on it. We had invited other Colorado Sheriff's to the event and he and us thought it would be disrespectful to the other Sheriffs. Also, please not that the our rally was a 2nd Amendment March AND a Support Our Sheriff's March (in support of the Colorado Sheriff's lawsuit against our new state unconstitutional gun laws passed here recently). We really had no problem with out of state groups or individuals coming ( a lot did show up), but did not want to put the invited Sheriffs in a potential media problem. We had a lot of issues with some local libs to get this going here and this disobedience issue was not one we wanted - at least for this year. In the end, the parade was a HUGE success. Head count right around 500, thousands of people showed up to watch (largest crowd ever), no incidents of any kind, and a great video segment on KOAA tv out of Colorado Springs. It was really inspirational, especially when we all sang "God Bless America" at the rally at the end of parade. I thank you for you interest and patriotism. Please don't take our avoidance of the civil disobedience acts as a sign of cowardice - it would have caused huge problems with our initial plans and how we presented it the community. God Bless, George.
So, what's the big deal here? Guns were among the things John Adams recommended in 1776 when he rattled off a list of things future Americans could use to commemorate independence.
http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/aea/cfm/doc.cfm?id=L17760703jasecond
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