[DieHard the Hunter]

> Either way, by your own admission this is clearly now a judicial oligarchy, not a constitutional republic.

If so, how sad that America should end up like that.

> You’re depending on one tiny branch to respect the Constitution when every other segment of the Republic has ignored it in this case: Electorate, Congress, outgoing POTUS, governors, state legislatures, generals, colonels, ambassadors, past presidents, etc, etc.

In fact, I’m doing nothing of the sort, as I live in a Constitutional Monarchy.

It grieves me to see my American friends in this position, and I wonder how long it will be before they take away your guns. Because they shall surely take away your guns, without raising a whimper. We know this because they have already demonstrated that your Constitution isn’t worth the parchment it was written on.

And nobody — nobody — is saying “boo” to stop them.

Perhaps 1776 wasn’t such a good idea, ay.

[Ratman83]

1776 was a very good idea, we just have to make it come back alive.

[sam_paine]

If so, how sad that America should end up like that. ... Perhaps 1776 wasn’t such a good idea, ay.

Well, now. It took a bit of fumbling around in the Dark Ages, and a lot of royal family blood feuds to get to a Constitutionally neutered Monarchy over there, now, didn't it?

As Churchill observed, "America can always be counted on to do the right thing...after exhausting all other options."

We've got another 'time for choosing' coming up in 2010.

We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.