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To: BroJoeK
The lessons for today are clear and simple: you will have a much better chance of protecting your vital interests within the law than outside it.

Only so long as there is a rule of law. When the law is selectively enforced, when specific groups get a free pass while others are prosecuted to the fullest extent, following the law is not the best course. While we have not completely reached that point, we are close. Even the Founders understood the necessity of throwing off the shackles of tyranny. If that cannot be effected within the law, it will be attempted outside those bounds.

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, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

We are nearing the point where this will again apply. Those who should be safeguarding our Liberty have become its worst enemies.

338 posted on 08/23/2013 3:20:59 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Smokin' Joe: "While we have not completely reached that point, we are close.
Even the Founders understood the necessity of throwing off the shackles of tyranny.
If that cannot be effected within the law, it will be attempted outside those bounds. "

Remember this: before the Civil War there were several proposals, beginning with President Jefferson, to purchase freedom for slaves, and offer them to return to Africa.
All such proposals were rejected by slave-holders, and most former slaves did not want to return to Africa.

But the cost of purchasing freedom for millions of slaves, while astronomical, was still less than the total costs of Civil War in money alone, to say nothing of hundreds of thousands killed.

Moral of the story is: rebellion is seldom the best answer, especially rebellion doomed to lose.

343 posted on 08/25/2013 2:12:35 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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