OK. Check me out. I TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY AGREE.
I have basically two points...or maybe one point and one question:
Point: The government created by the Constitution is HOSTILE to the right you just proclaimed.
Question: Why continue to pose a losing argument--and justifiably so--and maintain that the Constitution is on your side? Look at the Antifederalist essays on my profile page. Look at the transcript from Patrick Henry's June 5, 1788 speech. And see if it doesn't make more sense to conclude that the error was made in 1787-88.
It's an awful thing to contemplate, I guess. But I'm past the point of no return myself. I'll never turn back. It's etched into my understanding of America.
In other words, instead of arguing that you were free to go, without getting hassled. Why not just say you’d had enough of the national goverment and told em to pound sand, and when push came to shove, you backed it up with lead, but came up on the short end. THAT’s reality. And the next time you or I try to get out from under them it’ll be the same.