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To: Kolokotronis; RipSawyer
You disagree with Sam Adams too, I see. Your opportunity to “rise up” against an elected “tyrant” in this country comes every four years at a ballot box. Otherwise, all the sophistry and special pleading at your command can’t excuse treasonous rebellion or avoid the just penalty of the noose!

You must be smoking crack. "Rising up against tyrants" is allowed for specifically by the Second Amendment. That is it's purpose, and what it is for.

There is also inherent in the sovereignty of each state, and in the states together, the right to rebel against an usurping federal authority, even to the point of secession and blood if need be. If there is not, then there is no sovereignty in the state, nor in the people.

It is quintessentially "American" to rise against tyranny. Our founding fairly breathes with the very idea of it. What is treason and sophistry is to sit passively on the side and watch our God-given rights slip unnoticed from our grasp. There is an "Oh, Hell No!" moment. If it passes us by, we will not get another.

154 posted on 04/17/2009 7:55:32 AM PDT by roamer_1 (It takes a (Kenyan) village to raise an idiot.)
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To: roamer_1

Tell you r, read up on Sam Adams and his response to the insurrectionists of Shay’s Rebellion. Once you’re done that, read the history of the Civil War, which, as you will learn, the secessionist traitors LOST.

If Texans and others swept up in a form of mass, though still of a tiny, tiny, minority, lunacy over losing an election think treason is the answer, well, as with most choices in life, there will be consequences arising from that choice, just as there was in 1861.

Oh, and r, don’t think for a moment that US Attorneys across the country aren’t fully aware of the treasonous talk and dangerous threats made against government officials by posters on the internet. I assure you they are and for that reason, any “quintessentially “American”” revolt or secession will be over almost before it starts, thank God!


158 posted on 04/17/2009 8:41:27 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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