It absolutely does address the point. If you are going bend over and accept tyranny as 'law' in this case, you have surrendered all of your liberty - because as Joe explained - every aspect of your life can now be infringed and imposed upon by diktat of bureaucrats who will ensure costs for universal health care are arrested as the consumer level based on how we live our lives.
But that has already happened, and long before ObamaCare. Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security...there is an almost endless list of actions the government has taken over the past 100 years that meet your definition of tyranny. So I ask you again...what exactly have you
donw about it? You haven't resisted --
you've submitted. You pay your taxes, you obey most of those laws, at least. So what happened to your righteous pronouncement:
For some of us, disobedience to tyrants is obedience to God. I know that concept is absurd to you, but it is a primary principle of a good chunk of us.
You've obeyed the tyrants. You do it on a daily basis. You claim not to compromise your beliefs at all, but your very presence proves otherwise.
A lot of hot air was spewed by Thomas Paine, Jefferson, Henry, Adams, Franklin and so forth in the years preceding actual armed resistance to the crown's imposition of tyranny. The war is always first waged in the minds and views of a people as to whether they are going to surrender and subject themselves to being ruled, or to resist.
What does that have to do with anything? You've said we don't have liberty, and have endorsed "Give me liberty or give me death." Most of us can recognize middle grounds, and so not be held to such absurdities. You, not so much. Or are you saying that the stuff you say here is also just "hot air"? Because that, I could agree with.
I suppose you will assert my 'keyboard warrior' stance accomplishes nothing but braving a storm in a skiff made of paper.
Oh hell no. I
generally see nothing wrong with being a keyboard warrior because it is a legitimate means of trying to influence the opinions of others, and so an attempt to change the course of the country. It's democracy in action.
However, it is hypocritical coming from
you given your loudly-proclaimed refusal to live under tyranny, accusing others of doing the same, while somehow ignoring the glaring reality that we all live in the same country, under the same laws, and under the same "tyranny".
I'm stoking brushfires in the minds of people reading this board and others that I participate. Reminding them of that which they are entrusted to defend with every fiber of their being. because once it is surrendered and gone, it is gone forever. It never comes back.
"Stoking brushfires" isn't "refusing to live under tyranny", and accepting only "liberty or death". It's typing on your computer and meekly accepting your fate. Heck, you've even said that your goal isn't to actually change anything. It is just to be a "witness" so that nobody can say you didn't tell them. But again, being a "witness" isn't actively
resisting anything. It's just...talk.
Funny how you would be silly enough in this very thread to tell us we are all required to live under laws and policies that the "representatives" in D.C. exempt themselves from having to live under.
Please explain how that is "silly", or even better, please explain how it is
untrue. You
are required to live under those laws, even though you disagree with them, and even if Congress exempts itself from them. So are we all. That may not be morally right, but it is nevertheless a
fact. You are stuck here, with the rest of us, and you obey and are affected by those laws no matter how much you protest them on a message board. Your principled stand does not save you from that. The only thing that can save you from that is actually changing those laws. But that is something you have already stated repeatedly, on this very board, is not going to happen. To you, the fight is over, and we're on the inexorable path downward. So the question is....
Why haven't you actually started armed resistance yet? Either you obey the tyrants, or you obey God. You cannot obey both.
Isn't that right?
