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TheMadMonk

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8. Tell the dickhead to read the PREAMBLE.

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 08:05 PM

Jan 2013

That is where the bit about resisting opressive government resides. And it says when the shit gets bad/opressive enough, you THROW OUT the constitution/rule of law, the whole kit and kaboodle and start from scratch.

Why? Because otherwise the new rascals, simply take up where the old left off: eg. Extraordinary rendition, extra-territorial killing, and the whole gods bedamned PATRIOT Act.

2A has nothing to do with that. 2A is for defending/upholding the existing system against threats which would tear it down, or rewrite it for a priveliged few.

Yeager's threats in fact make him arguably a legitimate 2A target.

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Yeager’s case a test of the 2A intent to preserve the right to resist tyranny [View all] elehhhhna Jan 2013 OP

yell fire samsingh Jan 2013 #1

say the b-word at the airport elehhhhna Jan 2013 #2

exactly samsingh Jan 2013 #3

busted thanks in part to the patriot act elehhhhna Jan 2013 #4

People Mistake This All the Time, Ma'am: You Have a Right To Resist, But Not To Succeed At It The Magistrate Jan 2013 #5

yep, patriot or terrorist - labels depends on whether you win or lose elehhhhna Jan 2013 #6

The 2A doesn't even mention "tyrannical government". CJCRANE Jan 2013 #7

Tell the dickhead to read the PREAMBLE. TheMadMonk Jan 2013 #8