Reply #32: "mutiny"??? Are we all conscripts now? [View All]

[TahitiNut]

When a free people take back their own governance, it's called "revolution" not "mutiny." A "mutiny" can only occur in the military. For the civilian population in a free society, the "constituted authority" is We The People.

The Constitution's very existence is premised on the inalienable rights of the People to overthrow governance that is no longer responsive to their primacy. That's what the Declaration of Independence is all about.

Just as the last refuge of diplomacy is military force, the last refuge of a free people is the option to revolt - without which politicians would take no heed whatsoever to their demands. Civil unrest (and the possibility of revolution) is necessary - without it, we'd never have the Civil Rights Act of 1964.