Exactly.
Americans must understand that what Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence applies no less today than it did in July of 1776. To paraphrase his eternal words: When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object — which today is complete control of the economy and our lives — evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is our right to throw off such government — or to vote its agents out of office, or to raise such a magnitude of protest that they dare not act lest they set in motion a similar train of events.
To further paraphrase Jefferson’s words: A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the president of a free people. Our princely president has repeatedly demonstrated that he is unfit for the office. And he is only the most recent in a long line of presidents who have demonstrated that unfitness.
There is another reason why the parallels divide between the original Tea Party and our own. The Founders did not pretend to have all the answers. They performed an astounding feat of political thought and action based on the received wisdom of the time. They left for future generations the task of correcting their admitted errors and doubts.
We, however, know what those errors and doubts were, and the solution to them. As every statist or totalitarian regime that ever existed was based on Plato’s view that men were just atoms in a collectivist state and who owed their existence to others, a fully consistent philosophy of reason exists that sanctions individual rights and man‘s existence for his own sake. That philosophy is Ayn Rand’s Objectivism. The Founders did not have the benefit of her advice. We have.
Let us not treat this day, or any future Tea Party or any other kind of protest, as just another tea party. Let us solemnly regard it as a chance and a first step to finish the American Revolution, to protest the omnivorous and indiscriminate appetite of federal power to consume everything in its path, to assert the right to our lives and property and futures, to work on a course of action that will ultimately correct the errors present in the Constitution and repeal its freedom-destroying amendments. Americans must think and act to finish the American Revolution — before Obama and Congress finish this country, as they are determined to do.
From - The Original Tea Party and Ours: Where the Parallels Stop
by Edward Cline http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5596
Almost, "exactly." Unfortunately, also by force of arms. It's happened many times in this country. The Revolutionary War, the War Between the States, the war of 1812, the first and second world wars are examples.
Methinks, it might happen again, but I could be wrong.
I hope I'm wrong.
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