Sebastopol: a Warning to Civil Authority and
the American Public
Sebastopol is a small American
city with a name indicative of its location. It lies some 60 miles north of the
Golden Gate, in the once Russian-owned part of California. Sebastopol’s 7,800
population makes it a small city by most standards. It’s little more than a
small town compared to Los Angeles, San Francisco or Sacramento. But, despite
its size and somewhat out-of-the way location, Sebastopol is rapidly emerging as
a “hot zone” in the battle between tyrants and lovers of liberty.
Perhaps it’s no accident that
Sebastopol, with its Russian origins, should emerge as a latter-day battleground
in the struggle between freedom loving Americans and neo-socialist tyrants.
After all, wasn’t Russia the birthplace of the U.S.S.R., the granddaddy of all
tyrannical socialist states?
For proof of the socialist
(indeed neo-communist) nature of Sebastopol one need look no further than the
makeup of its city government. Three of the five members of the Sebastopol city
council are (and were elected as) members of the Green Party. You can’t get
much closer to socialist government than the platform of the Green Party, which
includes the following, taken right off their web page (www.greenparty.org/Platform.html):
- Universal SocialIST
Security - Starting at $26,000/yr
for a family of four.
- Jobs for Everybody
- A guaranteed right through public works and community
service.
- Living Wages
- Starting at $12.50 per hour and indexed to the cost of living.
- 30-Hour Work Week
- A 6-hour day with no cut in pay for the bottom 80% of the pay scale.
- Social Dividends
- A "second paycheck" so workers get 40 hours pay for 30 hours
work.
- Universal Health Care
- Free medical and dental care for all.
- Free Child Care
- Available free for all who need it.
- Lifelong Public Education
- Free, public education from pre-school through graduate.
- Affordable Housing
- Government rental and home ownership assistance and public housing.
If you think you’ve seen all
this garbage before, you have. It was that dream of the socialist
worker’s utopia we used to hear about in the heyday of Soviet propaganda. If
memory serves, the U.S.S.R., which was morally bankrupt from the start,
went totally bankrupt about 10 years back. Now we’ve got that same
moral bankruptcy brewing in America – and Sebastopol, California has a city
government that’s just about as morally bankrupt as they get.
Morally bankrupt governments
are nearly always made up of tyrants and the Sebastopol city government is no
exception. Their twisted concept of “social justice” goes well beyond
running roughshod over the rights of property and business owners. It extends to
the outright elimination of one of the most basic and fundamental of all
human rights – the right to defend one’s life, home and property by the best
and most practical means, carrying a handgun. To enforce this socialist
worker’s notion of “public good” the criminals who run Sebastopol have
hired a police chief who is nothing short of a Gestapo-like “goon.” He
invents law on his own with total disregard for the Bill of Rights. His
refusal to issue a concealed carry permit to anyone (a fact well
documented by Sebastopol attorney Peter Mancus) is proof of this. His obscene
arrogance and total disregard for the Constitution make the Sebastopol police
chief nothing less than a criminal. His crime? Violation of the Constitution –
the supreme law of the land.
What should the penalty be for
violation of the supreme law of the land? Many in the liberty movement
are coming to believe it should be the supreme penalty.
Public officials like the
Sebastopol police chief and the socialists
in its city government had better listen up. A lot of people are quickly
reaching the end of their willingness to tolerate this sort of tyranny. We
Americans have a history of dealing with tyrants in ways that can cause them to
suddenly take up permanent subterranean residence. There is a vast difference
between a “cop killer” and someone who knocks off a tyrant. Few Americans
would consider a German Jew who shot a Gestapo or SS officer to be a cop killer.
The more “enforcement goons” there are like the Sebastopol police chief, the
more Americans are going to wake up and make the obvious comparison. The tyrants
and their goons have been warned!
Gary Clark is a writer,
small business owner and staunch defender of the right of every individual to
own, bear and use ANY type of weapon that can be carried on the person. He lives
in Las Vegas and can be reached by e-mail at Liberty@wtw.org.
