When the lust of dominion or lawless ambition excites arbitrary power to invade the rights, or endeavor to wrench wrest from a people their sacred and unalienable invaluable privileges, and compels them, in defence of the same, to encounter all the horrors and calamities of a bloody and vindictive war; then is that people loudly called upon to fly unto that God for protection, who hears the [c]ries of the distressed, and will not turn a deaf ear to the supplication of the oppressed.
Journal of the Continental Congress TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1782
It would appear some withing the NCIS and JAG corps. would not take heed to these words of wisdomed penned so many years ago by some honorable men.