"Let Freedom In!" A young girl provides a moment of stunning drama in Olympia. Building toward a Gun Rights Woodstock in June.

Folks, I'm still exhausted and unable to sleep this morning, checking my email for links to videos that haven't yet been posted. That yesterday was another victory for the concept of armed civil disobedience cannot be denied. We had about a hundred folks. Given that the opposition (and by that I mean people of the WA state "mainstream gun rights groups" who have fought us tooth and nail because we are "discrediting" what they are pleased to style their "struggle for legislative redress") chummed the social media waters heavily with predictions of "everybody's gonna die and the ones who don't are going to end up gang raped in prison" -- given that and the miserable weather it was a wonder that anyone showed up, let alone the hundred redoubtable souls who did.

Briefly told, we gathered on the portico of the building waiting for the rotunda doors to be unlocked, chatted as people gathered (I gave the prefatory talk that is captured in the video post earlier) and then we had the speeches. I thought that the legislator's speeches were particularly good and WA state is very lucky to have such principled folks representing them. When the doors opened, we trooped in, armed, and went to the gallery doors, which as we had learned the night before were going to be locked. They were. In a spontaneous moment, and I know this to have been completely unscripted, people approached the door and knocked on it, some asking in loud voices to be let in. As they did so, one little girl emulated the adults and went to door and knocked, crying out "Let Freedom in!" I hope that the designated videographer got that moment, because if so it will likely go viral. The protestors, like Martin Luther and his Theses, affixed their petition for redress of grievances to the doors of the gallery and those of the Governor's office in the Capitol building. We then marched to the mansion where a very nervous gate guard accepted another copy for the Governor. The gesture, and the optics, were striking.

As always after these events, I am impatiently waiting on the various videos to be posted and I'll link them when they are. By locking the people out of the People's House, the politicians demonstrated their cowardice, their fear, and simultaneously, their arbitrary tyranny. Because we were unable to force them to arrest us, they are probably counting that as a win. They can console themselves if they like, but it was a loss for them and a win for us. The fact of the matter is that we openly broke Bloomberg's Law again, in public, with state troopers looking on, and they dared to do exactly nothing. Every time we have one of these actions that is successful and executed with impunity, we get stronger and they get weaker. Every time we stand toe-to-toe with the "authorities" and defy the wails and panty-wetting of the impotent Gottleib "pragmatists," we win and they lose. Courage is contagious. Success is contagious. We once again risked all and got away with it.

They locked us out this time in a very revealing, self-discrediting move. We will be back. They cannot lock us out forever. The bail money that was generously offered this time will be held here, added to, and will be required at some future action. All of this, of course, is building toward the really main event -- the arms expo in Yakima in June, where it is planned to stage a Bloomberg-flouting "Gun Rights Woodstock" where we operate a background-check free zone and dare the authorities to do anything about it. People will come from all over the country to participate, I suspect, and it has the potential of being huge, truly huge. There is no unconstitutional law that Bloomberg can buy -- there is no "compromise" that Gottlieb and Co. can "negotiate" -- that we cannot nullify, negate and reduce to insignificance by armed civil disobedience. We -- all of us, from Hartford to Olympia, from Denver to San Antonio -- will make the "authorities" wish they hadn't wrecked the traditional rule of law, which they will discover serves to protect them from us more than it protects us from them. We will make the compromisers like Gottlieb who seek to lick our oppressors' hands look like the craven fools and thoughtless traitors to principle that they are. As David Codrea has written, the paradigm has shifted, and our so-called "leaders" can lead, follow or get out the hell of the way. The Facebook commando weenies who predicted doom and gloom can repeat their public bedwetting time after time and yet that determined minority, that Three Percent, who once again showed up yesterday here in Olympia will accomplish all that needs be done heedless of the damp underwear of others. We are pleased that they may hide and watch while real Americans carry on in the tradition of, and with the ghostly approval of, the Founders.

Today a number of us, myself included, are going to church, to give thanks to the Lord on bended knee for all that we have accomplished and to seek guidance on what comes next. It is all in His hands.