“Scarcely have our minds been able to emerge from the astonishment into which one stroke of parliamentary thunder has involved us, before another more heavy, and more alarming, is fallen on us. Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate and systematical plan of reducing us to slavery. When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state, and calls for an exercise of the power of dissolution.”
-Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America. 1774
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"A Time for Choosing"
And When should we choose? NOW
And How should we choose? By speaking out NOW, by standing up and being counted NOW, and by remaining true to ourselves, our family, our community, our constitution NOW.
People always seem to forget the constitution! It gets lost in the shuffle of agruing between libs and conservs. Yet, its what even enables us to HAVE our public arguments on policies, without winding up in some gulag. Yet people who take advantage of what the constitution offers us are many of the same who would try to take it away!
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