But alas, I have seen no compelling arguments to the contrary. Go back and look at this thread - not a single one of my arguments have been met, but only avoided.
Your argument that "it's against the law" assumes that the law always must be obeyed. But this directly contradicts the very foundations of our Republic.
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government . . .
It is clear. Our Founders most emphatically did not facilely conflate the "moral" with the "legal" as you appear to do. These men declared war against an established and recognized government (and spilled buckets of blood in the process) when they were compelled in conscience to conclude that the regime of King George had strayed so far from the law of Nature and Nature's God that it had lost all legitimacy, and that duty called them to fight.
Now, I humbly submit that the grievances Washington and Jefferson had against King George pale in comparison to the "long train of abuses and usurpations" that our own regime inflicts on us. Even King George didn't protect the murderers of innocents.
Again, somebody please prove me wrong. Give me at least one good argument, because trust me I want to believe.
But alas, I see no way around it.