I love America, home of the free and the brave. Having travel all over the world, as a member of the US Armed Forces, I understand what real freedom means and is. This day, Sep 12th, 2021, I declare I will not stand for the tyranny that has descended on our country and will use all peaceful means to fight back. However, I will never rule out our rights given to us under the Constitution and specifically the excerpt from our Declaration of Independence which encapsulates what our forefathers told the British in 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.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
I have used the system against the system to force the hand of leadership to do the right thing, even if that meant spending millions of dollars to right a wrong. Those programs are still in effect some 20 years later. Right never goes out of fashion.