A 57-year-old former militia leader who's on government disability because of congestive heart failure, diabetes, and hypertension is behind a call to throw bricks through the windows of Democratic Party offices.
Mike Vanderboegh uses his blog to get out the message of vandalism and threats of violence to those opposed to the efforts of the Obama administration.
"To all modern Sons of Liberty: THIS is your time. Break their windows. Break them NOW."
In a story in the Washington Post, Vanderboegh is described as a former leader of what he calls a "clandestine" militia group called the Sons of Liberty and a public leader of the First Alabama Cavalry, Constitutional Militia.
The self-proclaimed Libertarian claims that his blog's call for violence and vandalism is "both good manners and it's also a moral duty to try to warn people."
"The central fact of the health-care bill is this, and we find it tyrannical and unconstitutional on its face," Vanderboegh said. "The federal government now demands all Americans to pay and play in this system, and if we refuse, we will be fined, and if we refuse to pay the fine, they will come to arrest us, and if we resist arrest . . . then we will be killed. The bill certainly doesn't say that, but that's exactly and precisely what is behind every bill like this."
Yes, that's right: health-insurance reform is considered a threat to their very lives. For realsies. This from a man who receives taxpayer-funded disability support.
Vanderboegh also believes that civil war will break out when IRS agents "go after" people who refuse to buy mandated health insurance and refuse to pay the fines levied against them.
The call for window-breaking is an historic one, he claims in his blog, and is fair warning to the government that without due attention, the people will rise up in armed rebellion.
These windows are not far away from where you are reading this right now. In virtually every city and county in this land, there is a local headquarters of Pelosi's party -- the Democrat party. These headquarters invariably have windows. When the Sons of Liberty wanted to express their opposition to the actions of the King's ministers, they would gather in front of the homes and offices of his tax-collectors and government officials in Boston or New York and break their windows. Glass was expensive. The King's minions were often the most well-to-do. The Sons of Liberty hit them in their pocketbooks.
Most importantly, however, was the message to the royal functionaries that there are personal consequences for oppressing your fellow citizens. The King is far away, and you are here, among us, the people.
This is the message that modern Sons of Liberty should get across to the Royalists of today. Now. Before we have to resort to rifles to resist their "well intentioned" tyranny.
The Southern Poverty Law Center says that although Vanderboegh has never been arrested for his incitements, he's garnered enough attention to keep him on their radar for the past 15-20 years.
The former warehouse manager currently receives $1,300 a month in government disability checks because of his congestive heart failure, diabetes and hypertension. He also has private insurance through his wife.
Vanderboegh likens the health-insurance reform bill as one sign that our country is hurtling toward disaster.
Have we committed vandalism against property? Surely. But which is the greater crime? Ours, or the criminal driver? And despite what you say now, what will you say when you realize that it is the entire country -- everything and everyone that you know and love -- that the Pelosi Limousine Service is driving straight to civil war?
Because -- and here's the deal they don't yet understand -- before we see our children consumed in the chasm, we will shoot the driver.
This is what we're faced with, ladies and gentlemen: people who believe that their lives are in danger because more people are going to get health care ... and that it's good manners and their moral duty to resort to violence, vandalism, terrorism, and even assassination, if necessary.