Six soldiers, serving the Coalition of the Willing's occupational government, were killed on Tuesday June 24th by civilians seeking to retain their firearms.
It is enlightening that a war waged under the pretext of liberating the people of Iraq has resulted in a systematic attempt to disarm the liberated. At the very least, this attempted weapons confiscation indicates that the Coalition's definition of liberty does not include the right to keep and bear arms. At best it is yet another historical demonstration that oppressed people will defend the last bulwark of their freedom; their right to possess militia grade weaponry.
In America, we celebrate heroes who fired their weapons on Lexington Green just after Paul Revere alerted them that "The Red Coats are coming." The British at that time had of course declared martial law in Boston. They came waving the same flag in Lexington as they did in Majjar.
The Iraqi's currently find themselves under martial law by a coalition of foreigners. When Saddam held Iraq through a military dictatorship, it was noble to oppose Saddam Hussein's regime. Is it not just as noble to oppose the military regime which currently occupies the country of Iraq?
The civilians who fought to defend their freedom against those who would disarm them are heroes. In this most recent event, the military attacked the residences of civilians with the intent of confiscating their weapons.
The accounts in the London press of both the 'Shot Heard 'Round the World' and this most recent event in Iraq are virtually identical. The King's forces were murdered by anonymous protesters in an attempt to restore order.
And, in truth, the events are quite similar. One group was fighting a war of independence against vastly superior foreign forces of occupation and the other was fighting the American Revolution.
On Patriot's Day, we celebrate resistance to gun confiscation. The British troops were heading to confiscate a known stash of military grade weaponry from a known rebel's farm.
Years from now, will Iraqis celebrate the resistance that these brave civilians mounted to the same British troops seeking to confiscate their military grade weapons? If not, they should.
As much as I believe every life is valuable and salvageable, if one person or group of persons attacks another, a common sense of justice requires that we hope that if any life is lost, it is that of the aggressor. This is true no matter what flag the aggressor fights under, even if that flag is the Union Jack.
The British flag is not a cloak of righteousness. Whenever people defending their lives and their freedoms are forced to kill their aggressors, we should not cheer that lives had to be taken. But, we should cheer that no innocent lives were lost.
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