captainsblog | There they go again....

I heard this cheery report on the way home tonight:

You've heard about the broken windows and voice mail threats - and the speech by Rep Steve King after the health care vote:

"There's going to be a reckoning."

But there's at least one player who wants to take this up a notch:

Militia leader Mike Vanderboegh of Pinson Alabama is organizing an armed march on Washington for April 19th.

"We will have loaded pistols on our hips. We will have unloaded rifles. I can guarantee you that we will get their attention."

You know the significance of April 19 -- the day the first shot was fired in the American revolution, and more recently Oklahoma City bombing.¹

Vanderboegh promises his side will not fire first, but in his on-line broadcast, he counsels his followers to be ready:

"You need to be forming neighborhood defense organizations. You need to be looking to your arsenals. You need to be looking toward your neighbors and who you can count on and how do you build small fire teams and things like that because events will overtake you if you do not."

I've been getting e-mails from people who say they're fed up -- that I should check out the lines at gun counters in sporting goods stores.

The militia movement is convinced that collectivists control the government, and health care reform is the last straw.

They're preparing for Civil War².

Not looking forward to that.

Although it would mean that -- some day -- scratchy pictures of many of us will appear in an award-winning PBS series.

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Ray's footnotes:

¹ Also the first day of the Ruby Ridge standoff, and the day before the anniversary of Columbine, not that anyone's keeping track of such things except, you know, funeral homes.

²Or as it was actually referred to on the floor of the United States House of Representatives on March 21, 2010, "the great war of Yankee agression."

Christ, I need a drink after all this. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a militia filled with lobotomies.