Bull Run was "according to Lincoln's interpretation" of his own unConstitutional police powers attacking a foreign army of men of the Confederacy protecting their homes. The Brit's march around Concord was lawful only according to the Brits.
Our goverments' recent serial/mass murder at Ruby Ridge and Waco is legal precedence to protect murdering federals from exposure to justice, as is Civil War to defend Americans' ratifed Constitution where we don'depend on political blackrobes to tell us that our Constitution does not mean what it clearly says, but rather means what it does not say.
Lawful? Where in our RATIFIED Constitution is the nullification clause of our Bill of Rights and other such inconveniences as it may suit some officious order by someone purportedly in (THE) authority?
As through all time, Police Powers of the State shall reign suprem - lawful or not, until the tyrants are removed by the violent consent of the governed.
These are dangerous times amid profound abuses of authority at all levels. It is obvious that those people do so at their own risk. As I see these 'Disarm and abandon your homestead, maybe you're outnumbered, hopefully outgunned.' confrontations, "LE" faces a real shotout risk if they persist in such unlawful acts under color of law not in compliance to our RATIFIED Constitution.
I only state the obvious in the light that uniformed N.O. cops looted. Uniforms were stripped off and abandoned in the street as N.O. cops went AWOL. Who says some of these "LE" teams are not looters?
wisely spoken!