[coloradan]

Someone would surgically remove your larynx, and sell your house? Yeah, I guess you better not breathe another word about federal agents being above the law.

[bvw]

I'll tell you -- it's awfully hard to shutup, if you are used to speaking freely, and it's a damn pain to be without a home. That's why the Declaration of Independence says "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves"

Yet at some point a man's duty and not just a man, but men together -- requires him to move beyond complaints, political and legal remedies, the realm of speech into the realm of action. As the Decalaration says: "... but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off ...".

That move into action is an exodus out of slavery, one that needs Providential help to complete.

By arms or not, it surely moves a person out of his accostumed home.