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I agree that violence is a last resort.
But I urge Americans to look at the pre-amble to the Constitution and think about what it actually means. All that talk about a long history of usurpations designed for one object, to reduce the people to serfdom, is not just talk.
And that sort of behaviour has not gone out of fashion amongst the ruling classes, no matter what they teach in schools these days.
Further, recent trends (militarisation of the police, domestic spying, domestic deployment of the military, dilution if not complete destruction of habeas corpus, secret hearings, denial of representation, denial of the right to address accuser(s), denial of right to see the evidence, casual and deliberate etargetting of civilians, active suppression of dissent, etc) are all in one direction, and in my view they fit the description contained in the pre-amble perfectly.
Even so, Americans are still among the free-est people on this planet. I would repfer to see it stay that way, but the trend - in this instance - is not your friend.
