"I now know how the founding fathers and the fathers of the Confederacy must have felt. It is sad."

 

"There is no more rule of law or adherence to the constitution or bill of rights.

“Utter subjugation awaits us in the Union, if we should consent longer to remain in it. It is not a matter of choice, but of necessity. We must either submit to degradation, and to the loss of property worth four billions of money, or we must secede from the Union framed by our fathers, to secure this as well as every other species of property. For far less cause than this, our fathers separated from the Crown of England.”

History unlearned repeats it’s self, so here we go again. They locked down the very places where free men would gather and talk, bars, restaurants and church’s. Virtually every protest, rebellion, insurgency, and revolution was born in one of these places where free men could gather.

“The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independent 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure. “

I know you know the above well, these are trying times at best. I now know how the founding fathers and the fathers of the Confederacy must have felt. It is sad."

~~Greg