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Originally Posted by maestroxl
I'm confused. What do you mean if? It's already happened.
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Wow. Wow. Can you elaborate on why you feel this way? I find myself utterly unable to sympathize with you.
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Originally Posted by Declaration of Independence
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... [W]hen 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 a Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
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When government becomes entirely unaccountable to its citizenry, the people have a right and an obligation to destroy that government and replace it with another. In the event that American leaders became, for all practical purposes, unelected, I would resist the government VIOLENTLY as soon as it became clear that non-violent methods were not going to be effective.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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