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Jim Robinson wrote: And I'd say we're defending our rights from those who are trying to destroy them. And I see you've listed many of them in your reply.

Hoist on your own petard!

Those groups which are I mentioned are antithetical to everything which I believe, but they are still part of "the people".

There are a couple names for "the people" taking the law into their own hands and acting outside the system — one is revolution and the other is anarchy.

Which is which often depends upon your perspective.

We have in place a system of laws and checks and balances which has served us well for over two centuries.

It may not be perfect but over time excesses are practically always self-correcting.

The one iron-clad duty of every judge is to uphold the law, not disregard it or make it up as he goes along as Roy Moore is doing.

Hoisted on your own petard. No individual group of people, say the ACLU, have the right or power to deprive the rest of us of our constitutional rights. The ACLU (or none of the other groups you listed) have the power to nullify the first amendment. The first amendment guarantees certain free speech and religious rights to ALL of the people, not some of the people. If the ACLU is offended by that, then that's just too damned bad.

Those groups which are I mentioned are antithetical to everything which I believe, but they are still part of "the people".

Which are part of a larger liberal movement to have the fedgov usurp power. At some point, if it is left unchecked, there won't be anything left to balance out in the relationship between the fedgov and the states.