Two weeks ago I wrote a post entitled “Shock the system: Just one example of how the government could lose a civil conflict.”
It was written after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, acting with the NY legislature, violated the New York State Constitution by ramming through the NY SAFE Act without giving legislators time to read it, or for constituents to respond.
This clearly unconstitutional act was a brazen assault on the rights of citizens, and inspired the head of a New York Sheriff’s PBA to blast the governor and legislature in an extraordinary letter I posted yesterday, where he pointed out the naked unconstitutionality of the law, and the dangers it posed to the law enforcement officers stuck between dictators and a citizenry that quite frankly intends to ignore the law.
“Shock the system” was written with one explicit goal: to remind those elected officials (in New York in particular) that their powers are not unlimited, and that all humans—not just Americans— have a natural right of rebellion against tyranny.
This right is no small thing. It is a right well-theorized by the giants of western political theory such as Locke, and of the common law such as Blackstone, both of which heavily influenced our own Founding Fathers. This right was part of the philosophical justification for the American Revolution.
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