[GonzoII]

"Sure."

Then why can't you accept an act within their competence that would save lives?

[EternalVigilance]

I can. It’s just not necessary. Just because one individual, or group of individuals, made an unconstitutional decision doesn’t mean anyone else has leave to violate their own oaths. Killing innocent persons is still illegal in this country, and every state is still required to provide equal protection of the laws for every person within their jurisdiction.

[EternalVigilance]

"We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal' and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was 'illegal.'"

-- Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail

[EternalVigilance]

The summing up of the work of the Committees of Correspondence:

"Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature."

-- Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists, The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, Nov. 20, 1772