"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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. 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."
I hate hate hate the mindset that our founding Fathers were anything other than learned and accomplished men. We are in a strange predicament in that 1776 doesn't truly apply. All we want to do is restore the Constitution to its rightful place as the highest law of the land. And yet something like half of our serving Officials are guilty of sedition, trying to radically transform the Nation. Our last POTUS even ran on that notion! Which disqualified him more than the birther controversy. Barr is clearly intimidated or otherwise unwilling to do what's right. The "guards for our future security" are impotent. I see no scenario in which we don't need to rise up and be heroes, soon. Maybe waiting a little while longer is the right thing to do now, but if we fail to secure assurances of a fair election before November, our position only weakens dramatically after they announce their fraudulent results.
When situations arise where the law itself is in the wrong, what is a free man to do?
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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. 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."
I hate hate hate the mindset that our founding Fathers were anything other than learned and accomplished men. We are in a strange predicament in that 1776 doesn't truly apply. All we want to do is restore the Constitution to its rightful place as the highest law of the land. And yet something like half of our serving Officials are guilty of sedition, trying to radically transform the Nation. Our last POTUS even ran on that notion! Which disqualified him more than the birther controversy. Barr is clearly intimidated or otherwise unwilling to do what's right. The "guards for our future security" are impotent. I see no scenario in which we don't need to rise up and be heroes, soon. Maybe waiting a little while longer is the right thing to do now, but if we fail to secure assurances of a fair election before November, our position only weakens dramatically after they announce their fraudulent results.