Texas Drifter Re-Consider "Battered Citizen Syndrome"
Marshall’s Law Dateline – Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver. Future American historians have a moral obligation to record what “pieces of silver” every Obama Marxist-fascist Progressive Liberal Democrat along with their allies Moderate Republicans also called RINOS received for contributing to destruction of Heaven’s favorite republic. America’s citizens have right to know which of these politicians took Judas bribes, and which were just evil.
Even cruel, mean, selfish, sadistic, lying, thieving, totally worthless psychopaths, sociopaths, and poliopaths like Marxist Progressive Democrats are entitled to American Constitutional judicial due processes: indictments, trials, appeals and due process punishments. As for their souls, that is Heaven’s domain not citizens. Above words do not change principles that self defense is not a sin.
Unfortunately many good American citizens have pilgrim like attitudes towards political evils. Why, most American pilgrims are not used to being victimized by fascists acting bureaucrats with worker ant personalities. Occasionally good spirited patriotic citizens may over react with episodes of violence caused by lost tempers.
I feel a question emerging; why would battered citizen syndrome not be a valid criminal defense argument? Following excerpt was previously published in January 1999 by Texas Drifter page 150, item “068”.
One wonders if abuses of socialist governments generate a “battered citizen syndrome?” If battered wife syndrome is a valid due process legal defense for use of violent solutions; is the battered citizen syndrome also a valid defense for citizens who react in a similar manner against abusive governments?
Intellectual consistency requires that those who accept the battered spouse syndrome as a legal defense to justify violence against an abusive spouse must also accept the battered citizen syndrome as valid legal defense for citizen/s who uncontrollably out with violence against abusive government/s which seems synonymous with abusive husbands or spouses.
To accept less is to deny legitimacy of actions by America’s Founding Fathers in 1700’s; actions by Texas rebels in 1830’s, or actions of those who sought to establish nation of Israel following World War II. What constitutes sufficient legitimate abuse that contributes to battered citizen syndrome can be debated, but existence of battered citizen syndrome can not be debated.
Criteria to justify battered citizen syndrome probably requires Solomon like wisdom, especially since Obama like Marxist-fascist Progressive Liberal Democrats and their RINO allies seem incapable of remorse and are not likely to exit political stage as did Judas Iscariot.
Options for you my reader to consider while bad people and America last crowd continue to celebrate decline of Heaven’s favorite constitutional republic. Reader’s assignment: Were the following two American heroes suffering from battered citizen’s syndrome?
First Colonel Travis of Alamo fame, what was perhaps the most intense concern of this leader on whose shoulders rested lives of one hundred eighty plus volunteer soldiers as well as the fate of Texas unborn Republic?
Can answer be found in last letter Travis wrote from crumbling walls of old church:
To David Ayers on March 3, 1836
Take care of my little boy. If the country should be saved, I may make for him a splendid fortune; but if the country be lost and I should perish, he will have nothing but the proud recollection that he is the son of a man who died for his country.
The letter to David Ayers is the last known letter written by Travis before the fall of the Alamo on the morning of March 6, 1836. William Barret Travis died at his post on the cannon platform at the northeast corner of the fortress. He was 26 years old.
Second example: In April, British General Thomas Gage, military governor of Massachusetts decided to confiscate weapons stored in the village of Concord and capture patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock reportedly living in Lexington. On the night of April 18 Captain John received warning of the approach of the king's soldiers.
Act I:
Patriot Leader (enters): Relax Captain John. Decision has been made to assign you command of Lexington militia. Before you respond, others may seem more qualified. You were chosen, one for your devotion and loyalty to following orders. Second militia members respect you and will do exactly when and what you command.
Captain John: Should I ask my young scout to leave?
Patriot Leader: No he can report to me when time is right. Your orders, do not fire on British troops until after they fire on you and your militia. Have something to say?
Captain John: Sir sounds like you are ordering me to conduct myself like a coward and watch my friends and neighbors die.
Patriot Leader: Sir the very future of our yet unborn republic could very well depend on when you order your militia to fire. Tomorrow’s events will determine how fellow Americans and foreign governments view our struggle for freedom and liberty. Firing on British troops first will be remembered as provocation by criminals and traitors. Firing on British troops after British fire on you and your militia are citizens engaging in self defense; a concept understood by all Judeo-Christians. I am asking you to place serving America’s unborn republic before your own vanity. Understand?
Captain John: Yes Sir, I will command my volunteer militia not to return fire until I fire or give the order.
Patriot Leader: Good, may our Heavenly Father be with you and your militia, (turns to young scout) I will be expecting brutally truthful report from you tomorrow.
ACT II: (Report To Patriot Leader)
Scout’s Report To Patriot Leader: The first shots were fired just as the sun was rising at Lexington. The British troops approached rapidly in platoons, with a officer leading on horseback. The officer came up to within about two rods of the centre of the company and halted. The officer then swung his sword, and said, 'Lay down your arms, you damned rebels, or you are all dead men. Fire!' Some guns were fired by the British but no person was killed or hurt, being probably charged only with powder.
Captain John ordered every man to take care of himself. The company immediately dispersed; and while the company was dispersing and leaping over the wall, the second platoon of the British fired and killed some of our men. There was not a gun fired by any one of Captain John's company, I was so situated that I would have known it, had any thing of the kind taken place before a total dispersion of our company.
ACT III
Captain John To Grieving Woman: Let me say …
Grieving Woman (interrupts): Do not say another word to me. My husband, father of my children, my only son is missing and thought to be prisoner of British, and the man you called your best friend is dead because you were too cowardly to give order to fire on British before they got close enough to kill friends and neighbors under your command.
Captain John: (as turning to walk away): Madam that may very well be true.
Young Scout: Mother, we have to talk!
Captain John: Scout this is time for grieving not talking understand?
EPILOGUE: Now you my reader hopefully understand how one heart breaking loyal order should have become known as “shot not heard around the world”; not “shot heard around the world”.
Research Reference notes for reader: Scout’s Details of report based on excerpts from affidavit by Twenty-three-year-old Sylvanus Wood who was one of the Lexington militia who answered the call that spring morning. Several years after the event he committed his recollection to paper in an affidavit sworn before a Justice of the Peace which was first published in 1858: I, Sylvanus Wood, of Woburn, in the county of Middlesex, and commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy-four years, do testify and say that on the morning of the 19th of April, 1775, I was an inhabitant of Woburn, living with Deacon Obadiah Kendall.
Part of affidavit includes: I have been intimately acquainted with the inhabitants of Lexington, and particularly with those of Captain John's company, and, with one exception, I have never heard any of them say or pretend that there was any firing at the British from Captain John's company, or any individual in it until within a year or two. One member of the company told me, many years since, that, after John's company had dispersed, and he was at some distance, he gave them “the guts” of his gun.
The final question for reader, can indirect reference to battered citizen syndrome be found in Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence? Clue something about: and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing …
