Don’t; it’s a valid point.
I probably should regret my response, but I don’t.
The absolute injustice of the “rules are for you but not me”/authoritarian-styled regime we call government is horrifying; and it’s all the more terrible that they are spreading and ACTIVELY promoting injustices (like the Phil. Voter Intimidation case)... the founders put it this way “all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
Maybe I’m really weak for finding things to be unbearable; but if so, it is a personal failing.
Well, I didn’t hammer you for your reply because I invited it. And I invited it because, at some point, even reasonable adults have to start coming to grips with what could become a violent situation and exactly where one stands in that case.
The way things are going, maybe just for the moment, the future looks more violent to me than not. Being disabled I am not one to be very effective in combat. But I still have strong - I believe patriotic - feelings about this country and I would fight to defend it. My family would, too.
What would a new American Revolution actually look like?
It seems we have reached the point where it is time to wonder... many Good FReepers have already discussed this at length but some of us “optimists” need to get real before it’s too late.
So, I still don’t condone torture my FRiend.
But civil war happens.
What would ours look like?
God help us.