Our founding fathers would be shooting by now.
Exactly
I don’t even think it has to come to “shooting,” I believe we can “amicably divorce” just as Dr. Walter Williams suggested in his 2000 article, “It’s time to part company” (google it).
Only people who support a “perpetual” Union will do the shooting, just as they did in 1860. No, the vast majority of the Founders, Framers and Ratifiers (as well as Locke, Cicero, Plato, Augustine and Aristotle) understood the Inalienable Right to self determination and self governance. And We the People of our separate States need to recapture this thinking, not the serf-like thinking we have now towards the national government.
Look at how many people are putting all of their hope in the 9 politically connected lawyers on the Supreme Court regarding Obamacare. If they were at all consistent in their jurisprudence, they MUST uphold Obamacare as supposedly “Constitutional.” They certainly haven’t seen much of anything else that isn’t under the Commerce Clause or Necessary and Proper Clause or the General Welfare Clause. Yet, millions are putting all there hope in the decision. What a farce.
The Founders, Framers and Ratifiers would clearly have a different opinion about what to do. Take a minute if you will and read the Principles of 98 to see what two of them said they intended to do with the Aliens and Sedition Act.
“Our founding fathers would be shooting by now.”
We who are their descendants should first be declaring, “When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”...it is time for those ‘inside the beltway’ to get that message loud and clear. WE ARE THE PEOPLE! It is time for us to dissolve the political bands which have connected us to them. It might not become a time for shooting.