I have been watching the History Channel series on the American Revolution on Netflix. It is an event that I personally believe is the most important in human history. The founders of our country committed treason against the crown in order to create the freest society and what would become the most powerful, and wealthiest nation the world has ever known.
Benjamin Franklin said it best when asked what they were doing. He said they were giving the people a republic, if they could keep it. We have not kept it. We have let it slip, little by little into the hands of those that would pervert our laws, and enslave those still willing to make their own way.
We were told that it is our duty to cast off an oppressive government and reestablish a government that the Constitution intended. How long do we continue to wait? When do we sound the call to arms? When do we put the lamp in the window? When do the minutemen ride?
The founders went to great lengths
to not commit treason is actual history. The contracts and covenants made between the colonists and the crown were abrogated. Great effort was made to politely request that these agreements be honored. England thought otherwise and spurned the colonists requests and claims and continued to both break those agreements already dishonored and chose to break additional agreements. This point of history is often overlooked in favor of being chest thumping rebellious upstarts.
After great deliberation did Our Founding Fathers take up arms. Debates were led in churches and by the clergy and the Revolutionary War was done right....not in rebellion but to right a wrong. It is important to know and cherish that our history is in righting wrongs...not rebellion. Rebellion is a driver of the nations of the world...our origins are different (but do check out the history of the Magna Carta).
So now, here we are again. Our "parent government" is breaking the contracts and coventants (Constitution and laws) for both personal gain and personal power & desires. What shall we do?