Can we all remember this????????

[bdamomma]

"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and institute new government."

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Tom Jefferson had that right

And I'm wondering how long before the American people must act upon it. Hopefully Congress will step up to the plate and remember their oaths so we don't have to do this.

[atreides1]

2. Yes

But what do you do when the ballot box is stuffed, and peaceful protests don't work and a potential dictator is elected into office and refuse to listen to the people who elected him?


"...it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and institute new government."

It's not exactly specific on how to alter or abolish said government, the Founders tried diplomacy,
and only when those diplomatic endeavors failed did they resort to armed insurrection. We have tried
making change by the power of the voting booth, and so far it's worked with some issues, but Bush still has the power of the veto when those bills arrive on his desk.

He believes that Congress is there to do as he wishes, and who can blame him for that? The Congress
has been his personal rubber stamp since 2002, he has been allowed to slowly usurp the Constitution,
to spy on Americans without probable cause, to declare who is and isn't an enemy combatant, and other
aberrations, and all because people were keeping their powder dry.

And now to top it off, we have built detention camps! Have we finally become what we were supposed to be against?

So yes, we can all remember those words from the Declaration of Independence, but until we figure out how to find a working way to alter or abolish this aberration, all they will be are words.

[Rosemary2205]

3. What do we do?

Well, we've had civil wars before. I can't see it coming to that however. If Bush refuses to leave at the end of his term I think even the military itself will put the smackdown on him.

[bdamomma]

4. are they so arrogant that they won't think the American people

will do anything, we have to blindside them, how about when we voted in the Dems in November, did they have any idea how we all felt, apparently they didn't, this regime is so detached from the American people, I think if we did anything radical it would shock the hell out of them. What do you guys think?