Patriot's
Day Celebration : A Great Success
by George Gramlich
The Sangre de Cristo
Sentinel
Westcliffe, CO. April 24, 2015, Front Page
The 240th anniversary of “The Shot Heard Around
The World” was celebrated in grand style last Saturday at Veterans Park in
Cañon City with music and speeches by local, state and national political
figures. April 19, commonly known as “Patriot’s Day,” commemorates the first
shot fired at the British in Lexingtion, Massachusetts, in the Revolutionary
War in 1775.
The
event was organized by Mara and Jack Roberts of the Liberty Action Group in
Pueblo West. Sponsors included the Sentinel,
Warrior Kit in Pueblo West, and Raft Masters/Colorado Jeep Tours in Cotopaxi.
Music was provided by George Rivera and his Fat Chance Blues Band who rocked
the crowd from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. when the speech making began. Joseph Santoro (U.S. Army, Retired) was the
Master of Ceremonies for the event and led the audience with the Pledge of
Allegiance at 1 p.m.
Speakers
included former U.S. Congressman Tom Tancredo, Colorado Senator Kevin Grantham,
Colorado Representative James “Jim” Wilson, Chairwoman Becky Mizel of the
Pueblo County Republican Party, Custer County Sheriff Shannon Byerly,
nationally known patriot Mike Vanderboegh, founder of the Three Percent
movement, author of the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog site and one of the
sources that broke the Fast and Furious scandal a few years ago, and finally,
the featured speaker, the founder of the Oath Keepers Organization
(Oathkeepers.org), former U.S. Army paratrooper, and Yale scholar, Stewart
Rhodes.
Mike
Vanderboegh (who was the featured speaker at last year’s Southern Colorado
Patriots Club entry in the Independence Day Parade in Westcliffe) energized the
crowd with a rousing speech entitled, “The “Law” Versus the Rule of Law” where
he expounded on the unconstitutional laws being passed all over the country and
especially here in Colorado with our recently passed unconstitutional gun laws
including the magazine ban. Near the end of his speech, Mike’s assistant opened
a box and dumped fifty 30-round AR15 magazines in front of Mike on the grass.
Mike then ended his speech with these words:
“Here’s
a box filled with fifty misdemeanors -- magazines that mysteriously appeared in
your state yesterday coincident with my arrival. Now these are “politician
grade” magazines. We have smuggled hundreds of perfectly reliable magazines
into Connecticut and Colorado over the past two years. We call those “freedom
fighter” grade magazines -- you can bet your life on them. But politician-grade
magazines. . . well, like politicians they are unreliable and probably won’t
work as advertised. They are perfect, therefore, for presentation to anti-gun
politicians.
What
I am looking for here today is co-conspirators in liberty. I am looking for
volunteers to take these misdemeanors, present them to the politicians in this
state in whatever otherwise legal method that you choose, along with the
message -- “This was smuggled into Colorado in violation of your law. Now that
you’ve taken possession of it, why don’t you go arrest yourself?
So
the alternative is yours -- will you join the nationwide conspiracy for
liberty? It is not without risk, but somewhere the Founders will be smiling.
And remember this -- THE ENEMIES OF LIBERTY CAN ONLY MAKE YOU A SLAVE TO THEIR
APPETITES WITH YOUR OWN PERMISSION AND INACTION. The choice is yours. Do I have
any volunteers?”
At that
moment dozens of audience members rushed to the front of the dais and picked up
every single one of the “illegal” magazines as the crowd roared with applause.
Finally,
the featured speaker, Stewart Rhodes, rose to speak. Mr. Rhodes described the
sacrifices that our militia members went through in the Revolutionary War and
that victory was achieved because virtually all adult males in the northern
colonies were militia members. He spoke eloquently of the need for us to
support our sheriff’s posse as they represent the militia concept today. He
encouraged all citizens to join the posse as it is the final bulwark for
freedom and liberty.
The
event concluded with Mr. Santoro leading the entire assembly in taking or
re-taking our sacred Oath to the Constitution of the United States of America.
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