In our country, we are blessed with the principle that martial power and the force of law are both under the authority of a duly-elected civilian authority.
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There are a lot of points in your well written and thoughtful post that I agree with. And, there are several that I don’t. But, appreciating that really long posts tend to not be read by anybody on FR, and that I could write a book about your post, I am going to limit my comment to what appears to be the “central theme” of it as expressed in your opening sentence that I have cut and pasted above for everybody’s easy reference.
So, again with all due respect, history is clear I think that “the boys” showed up in Concord and Bunkerville with their guns because, in their minds, “duly elected authority” had become “corrupted” (Reid, Obama, the Nevada State Governor, the local Sheriff, the courts) and a plain ole citizen (Bundy) needed protecting from them and a federal government with a murderous history (Ruby Ridge and Waco).
Therefore, if your central premise of never acting without the permission of “duly elected authority” HELD FAST throughout history, “the boys” at Concord and Bunkerville would have stayed home, and little things like the Civil War abolishing slavery (which “duly elected authority” supported with armed force) and Selma, Alabama violence (initiated by”duly elected authority” using armed force) and many other “incidents” throughout our history just would not have occurred and there indeed would not have been a United States of America.
No sir, I think most of us at FR agree that “duly elected authority”, and the lawlessness it practices daily these days through unelected bureaucrats, spewing out unconstitutional “regulation” and then calling it “law” is what this growing Second Revolution is all about. Oh, and never mind a lifetime political class in DC, and it’s supporting cast of crook lobbyists, that on the whole is every bit as corrupted as third world states like Liberia.
Revolutions are not pretty and neat and that is what we are seeing and will see more and more of in these early days of the Second American Revolution.
Pretty sure...my post was maybe 7 or 9 words long...