I find it chilling that so many of us are willing to consider armed revolt against our own government. As King Theoden said in Lord of the Rings, “How did it come to this?”
But come it has. We are living under the iron boot of tyranny, no question about it. If we don’t throw all the bastards out, we’re so utterly screwed that history won’t even remember us. Shooting them would be quicker but voting them out is our last resort, our final chance to enact change legally.
I have to agree with Space Patrol that revolt is an all-or-nothing proposition. If you try it alone, you are toast. If you try it along with 50 friends, you’ll be hunted down and destroyed. But if EVERYBODY turned out armed and furious, there’s be a (slim) chance they’d back down in the face of a total insurrection.
Put me in the “No Fear of a ConCon” camp. The Conventioneers can write any damn thing they want ... but the states won’t pass anything crazy. The ConCon offers the states an alternative way to pass Amendments, especially those that Congress won’t touch, such as Term Limits or a rewording of the Commerce Clause. (Let’s throw in a firm definition of Natural Born Citizen while we’re writing Amendments, eh?)
We will wait a very long time for any of those actions to clear Congress, I can guarantee.
With the Constitution on the ropes, maybe an Article V convention is our last, best chance to take advantage of the Supreme Law Of The Land while it’s still in effect.
>Shooting them would be quicker but voting them out is our last resort, our final chance to enact change legally.
Not so. Even the US Code recognizes the Declaration of Independence as law. ( http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/organiclaws.txt )
And, according to the aforementioned LAW:
“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.”
How can it be illegal to do what the law demands as our DUTY?