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When I judge the time to be right, then I address the problem directly! We had a saying in the Infantry "Deeds not words."

Infantry is responsible to civil control under the Constitution, whether it be National, or that of a State.

Just who are you to determine that the rest of us be subjuect to the actions of your "Infantry" in rebellion.

Just how is your "addressing the problem directly" at your own inclination not anarchy leading to tyranny, and destruction of the Constitution if successful?

How do you differ from these folks?

Why should I support a call to rebellion and anarchy in operation against the Constitution and constitutional laws?

How does your "addressing the problem directly" at your own inclination change the operation of the truism of Tytler,

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury

and prevent the chain of events that Tytler warned of and the founding fathers were wary of in the authoring of the Constitution?

"The privilege of giving or withholding our moneys is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative which if left altogether without control may be exercised to our great oppression; and all history shows how efficacious its intercession for redress of grievances and reestablishment of rights, and how improvident would be the surrender of so powerful a mediator." --Thomas Jefferson: Reply to Lord North, 1775. Papers 1:225

Another...

"The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue internal taxes. These covering our land with officers and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of produce and property." --Thomas Jefferson: 2nd Inaugural, 1805. ME 3:376

Rebellion...

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience [has] shown 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 [the people] 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." --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776. ME 1:29, Papers 1:429

"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery." --Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774. (*) ME 1:193, Papers 1:125