Isn't rebellion against tyranny mandated by the Declaration of Independence?
Isn't that kind of rhetoric you rightwing 'patriots' love to spout off?
Wasn't the US government conscripting American citizens against their will and sending them off to die in Vietnam? Isn't that tyranny? Isn't that exactly the kind of government that you people love to tell us we have the right to rebel against?
The Declaration of Independence, taken from the ideas of john Locke's Second Treatise, a major advocate of the principle of self-ownership and the liberties of the individual, believed that we should overthrow a government the moment it restricts individual liberty via a means that is implemented not to defend individual liberty. This, he calls is Tyranny. This is where Jefferson got the ideas listed in the Declaration of Independence. Now, don’t you dare tell me that left wing commie radicals are in keeping with the spirit of the Declaration of Independence! I swear, we truly are experiencing the fall of western civilization.