Originally Posted by rbinhood
People don't get to decide what laws apply to them in a free, civilized society.


What if that society is no longer free?

Tyranny isn't defined by the government, but it is defined by the governed. The people decide when enough is enough.

You really should look at what the founders considered too oppressive and compare that to what we have today.

We live in a far more oppressive society today.

At the start of their rebellion, they wrote this...

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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, 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.


That said, they fought a war and established a form of government in the hopes that their descendants wouldn't have to exercise the God given right that was so self evident to them.

I do believe that there are hills upon which to die, but why do that when you haven't exhausted everything that the founders left to us?


"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams

Turdlike, by default.