“A ragtag band of anti-government militants...”
I call BS on this one. These folks are NOT anti-government. They ARE anti-criminal-government.
They ARE anti-over-reaching-government.
They ARE anti-senseless-bureaucracy.
They ARE anti-intrusive-government.
Get things back within the confines of the Constitution, and these folks will be content to busy themselves with things other than facing down a government invasion of a single rancher who (fedgov believes) owes a debt to the gubmint.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness; That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.Next these pro-“government” drones will be treating George Santayana, never mind the Founding Fathers, like Unpersons.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. 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 such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. …
It sounds like the opening line from BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.
I can guess the ages of those in charge...MY age. Lol.
Right on, Brother.
No… we won’t be generals or commanders, or even high powered staffers. We will likely still be Majors, passed over twice, sitting in dimly-lit offices in the basement of the pentagon, with longer than regulation haircuts, rumpled uniforms, unkempt mustaches and a bottle of scotch in the bottom right-hand drawer of our desks. We will be the most powerful men in the Army because we will be Majors getting ready to retire with nothing to lose by telling you exactly what we think, consequences be damned…We will be the most dangerous men in the Army.