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To: Colonel Kangaroo
Nonsense about secession and revolution may be a fun way to blow off steam and a great ratings builder for media figures, but it plays into the hands of those who would condemn all conservatives and all conservative principles. It's time for a lot of conservatives to grow up and quit being such drama queens.

I am deign to respond to this in any way other than anger, but let's be adults first. I don't see any problem with discussions of secession, armed revolt, or economic coup. The left has been peddling these ideas for decades, and it was ok for them to do it. Now that they're in power, their protestations against the conservative movements to effect change is laughable. They're all hypocrites!

That being said, the Framers worked in the ability of the people to revolt against government through the Bill of Rights. Amendment 1 gives us the right to speak against the government and request redress from grievances. Amendment 2 gives us the tools to effect those changes. The problem is that aside from the Civil War, the United States has NEVER requested redress from grievances in a way that made any difference.

A perfect example would be the Bonus Army march on DC in 1932. These brave men fought for our country, came back to a floundering economy, were promised money by the government, and when they went to collect, they were burned out of their shacks and violently ousted by commanders who we would eventually call war heroes after WWII. If an armed mass of men and women peaceably marched on DC with open-breech rifles, they would be struck down before getting out of Maryland or Virginia (depending on the direction they're marching). The US government has no tolerance for civil uprisings (look at what happened in Alabama last week with the Guard), and I believe that once the government has grown to the size it is now, there need to be talks about what rights, if any, the government is letting us have.

Personally, I will not live in a country where the government is looming, ever closer to passing regulations to universally ban everything we've known about freedom. My real question and ultimate concern: will those events drive people to rise up? Or are we all doomed to a life in brown shirts and bread lines? I would die for this country and what I know it to be. Would you?

49 posted on 03/19/2009 5:11:34 AM PDT by rarestia ("One man with a gun can control 100 without one." - Lenin / MOLWN LABE!)
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To: rarestia
The left has been peddling these ideas for decades,

Two wrongs do not make a right, especially when the people in question on the other side are political idiots.

The Declaration of Independence states that revolutions should not be entered into lightly or as anything but a last resort of desperation:

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn 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 them 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.

People may disagree, but I do not see the present sad course of affairs as being anywhere close to this standard of revolution. I feel that the proper course of action is through peaceful Constitutional political means. Work to promote strong conservative Constitutional ideals and work to elect and monitor those dedicated to such principles.

59 posted on 03/19/2009 5:26:27 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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