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To: Vicomte13

The will of the people CAN remove ANYONE from power in ANY position of ANY branch of government.

It just takes controlled breathing and a steady index finger.


530 posted on 06/23/2005 10:37:25 AM PDT by myself6 (Nazi = socialist , democrat=socialist , therefore democrat = Nazi)
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To: myself6

"The will of the people CAN remove ANYONE from power in ANY position of ANY branch of government.
It just takes controlled breathing and a steady index finger."

If there are a few million out there doing that, then it is the will of the People.
If it's just one guy - and that is what it will be on an issue like this - it's a matter of criminal law and law enforcement.

The problem in the US is not the lack of violent solutions.
It is the lack of will to rebalance the US Constitution by assigning the final authority to make decisions to a different, elected branch of government. Right now, final authority rests in the Supreme Court. As long as that is so, you will get one decision after another of a Roe v. Wade, guns-are-commerce and regulable (to zero), Walmart- can-have-your-house variety.

If you don't like that, then you have to change your Constitution, not shoot up some petty officeholders. The latter will only make the government more oppressive, as people in authority use violence against authority as justification to more severely crack down.

Perhaps the time will come when Americans realize that their Constitution of 1787 is a great document that has run its course, and the balance of powers in it places final authority in the wrong, unelected branch of government. To rebalance that will require substantially altering the US Constitution.

I don't think there is any appetite to do that in America.
And without that change, this sort of decision will keep happening.


569 posted on 06/23/2005 10:57:21 AM PDT by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
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To: myself6

That is the only means we have left.


627 posted on 06/23/2005 11:24:11 AM PDT by Necrovore
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