I believe that’s why we have elections.
Do you advocate violence against a government that was chosen by it’s people?
That depends.
I believe in the Declaration. It doesn't say "whenever any form of government becomes destructive to 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, unless such government results from elections.
No, I do not advocate violence against the present government at Washington.
But, I can easily foresee that government becoming "destructive of these ends", and I can see the "right of the People to alter or abolish it" being denied, elections or no.
In such a case, then, yes, I would support such a course of action.
“Do you advocate violence against a government that was chosen by it’s people?”
Every four years or so we go through the “election” process. We listen to weeks or months of propaganda dished out by two supposedly different political parties in the faint hope we will be able to elect someone different from the guys presently in office. Each time we just get more of the same though perhaps with a different letter in front of their names.
Within a few weeks we find that our new “leaders” just can’t do all the stuff they promised until we give them more money. So we open our wallets and empty our bank accounts, once again hoping for a change in the status quo and once again we get the short straw.
This election may be different. I hope so because it’ll be my last. But even as I type these words there are strings being pulled, payoffs being made and backs getting scratched to assure that nothing significant will change in 2009, that the government elected by “the people” will, in effect, be the government most favorable to those special interests that pull strings, make payoffs and scratch backs.
Unless this upcoming election actually makes changes in the staus quo we will have to assume (except for those who refuse to see the light) that the election system is broken as badly as any other system operated by our broken government.
Ron Paul said in that interview only what many of us here have said: That, sooner or later, we the people will have to take up arms against whomever is ruling at the time.