Name:	MAJ USA RET -	Reply
Subject:	WHAT IS THAT SCREAMING I HEAR?
Date:	9/18/2013 6:02:24 PM

Every nation which has allowed itself to descend greedily into economic and moral ruin has eventually fallen prey to autocracy or dictatorship.  There comes an eloquent “messiah” (e.g. a community organizer) to fan the flames of nationalism (e.g. Der Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - NAZI).  The Leader (e.g. Der Fuhrer) focuses blame for the national dilemma ( e.g. high unemployment; valueless currency) on someone else and the nation begins to rationalize that it is (they are) owed compensation. This rationalization leads to political chaos (e.g. present day Greece)… and often war (e.g. Japanese invasion of Manchuria).

History is screaming a warning at our Nation. But some do not understand the language of history.

Name:	MAJ USA RET -	Reply
Subject:	...But when a long train of abuses...
Date:	9/19/2013 9:24:56 AM

“…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…” [Declaration of Independence]

That there is a threshold beyond which tyranny cannot be tolerated, this concept being insured by the establishment of the 2^nd Amendment:

“Article the fourth [Amendment II] A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”