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Thank you for the ping! Thomas Jefferson new the nature of power...and the dangers of incrementalism -

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The
part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance
of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such
misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public
liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers
are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the
spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them
right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few
lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed
from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."

Citizens rise!