So, is it time to have the discussion about “the boxes” (soapbox, ballot box, cartridge box)?
BTW, good to see you around again, FRiend...
Think of it this way. Until Allende tried to turn Chile into a socialist/communist country, Chile was the only country in all of Latin America with a long history (over 100 years) of the military staying out of politics. Maybe that's why it was also the most prosperous and democratic country in Latin America. The Chilean military did not intervene lightly, and those who did so knew they would be ultimately condemned, as Pinochet was long after he stepped down and returned the country to civilian control. What he did was wrong, but it saved the country.
In England, it was against the law and wrong for Parliament to oppose Charles I's usurpations and pretensions to absolute monarchy, but after a long and bloody civil war that no one undertook lightly, Charles did not succeed in turning England into an absolute monarchy on the French or Spanish model.
And, when the English brought the Stuarts back, James II thought he could pick up where Charles left off. The resistance to that was called Glorious.
And, of course, when German George III's ministers decided to run roughshod over the liberties of Englishmen living in the North American colonies, our forebears (well, a bunch of mine at least, and I daresay some of many of other Freepers) had something to say about it.
We no longer have any institutional bulwark against the Obama wrecking crew's assault on the rule of law and the republic.
Each man and woman has to do what he or she thinks is right. And avoid saying anything that would be criminally punishable.