Border Patrol check point

[xtraction]

I watched Glenn Beck last night. He is telling us that we must choose. My question is:

How shall one decide when enough is enough and take up arms against the government?


All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson

Every generation needs a new revolution.
Thomas Jefferson

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson


No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
George Washington

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Benjamin Franklin

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander Hamilton

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alexander Hamilton

[Clint]

Originally Posted by xtraction

How shall one decide when enough is enough and take up arms against the government?

When the agents of the government wear blue helmets
and claim that the World Government is now running the United States of America.

[xtraction]

Originally Posted by Clint

When the agents of the government wear blue helmets
and claim that the World Government is now running the United States of America.

Don't you think that would be a little bit late?

[Clint]

Originally Posted by xtraction

Don't you think that would be a little bit late?

Too late to start stockpiling weapons and ammunition, for sure.

Not too late to start shooting.

[xtraction]

Watched Glen Beck last night. Sounds like the global warming treaty might just allow the blue helmets to land.

[cas]

Originally Posted by xtraction

My question is:
How shall one decide when enough is enough and take up arms against the government?

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +
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.

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.

[xtraction]

Originally Posted by cas

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +
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.

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.

The states may be united but the people are not. Divide and conquer.