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To: MeganC

I oppose starting illegal violent insurrections.


74 posted on 10/17/2013 10:03:30 AM PDT by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar are soon to be relearned.)
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To: donmeaker
I oppose starting illegal violent insurrections.

There's the difference between you and I. You oppose the insurrection and I oppose the kind of government that would provoke one and make it necessary.

While a violent insurrection is an absolute action of last resort to me (as it should be for everyone) I find it far more dangerous to rule it out lest in doing so we convince potential tyrants that they can go about their tyranny unopposed.

I personally like the idea that people in government should get nervous when they start doing things they ought not do. If things get to where they have no fear of being held to account by oversight or the courts then they most certainly should fear being held to account by the citizenry. They should fear the smell of hot tar and they should fear the sight of every lamp post they pass by.

The day those people hold no fear of the rest of us is the day that violent insurrection will no longer be a matter of choice but one of survival.

79 posted on 10/17/2013 10:10:29 AM PDT by MeganC (Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell! https://mattbevin.com/)
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To: donmeaker
I oppose starting illegal violent insurrections.

LOL!!! They ALL are illegal, violent insurrections, Don, unless the illegal, violent insurrectionists win. Then they're Patriots.

It's always been this way.

111 posted on 10/17/2013 11:04:05 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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