There is a man with a gun near an Obama rally. Here is the video. They're just letting him sit there and wait for Obama. This is insane!
Did you see his sign? "It Is Time to Water the Tree of Liberty." That is from this Jefferson quote:
"And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
This is the same exact quote Tim McVeigh was referencing in a shirt he wore ... before bombing the Oklahoma City federal building.
Now, imagine if there was left-winger with a gun waiting for Bush holding a sign that the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood tyrants? How long would that guy have lasted? You think they'd let him just sit there and wait for Bush? And say, "Hey, it's perfectly legal!"
Is anyone stupid or disingenuous enough to believe that? They would have taken his ass down in a flat second. They would have infiltrated whatever group he belonged to and monitored his ass for the rest of time.
Now imagine he was Muslim and waiting for Bush with a gun. What do you think would have happened then?
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UPDATE -- In responding to the points below I wrote this in one of the replies and I think it's important in explaining my perspective:
This shouldn't have gone down like this. I understand all of the people saying we didn't want to make a political martyr out of this guy by arresting him -- it's a valid point. And in this case, nothing happened anyway. But here's what I'm more interested in -- keeping Barack Obama alive. What are you going to do the next time someone else shows up with a gun at an Obama rally? And how about when two of them show up or ten of them?