Patriot or Tyrant?

 "What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."  Thomas Jefferson, 13 Nov 1787.

We had a rebellion - more than a hundred and fifty years ago - initiated to deny liberty to millions of people.  Over 600,000 Americans died in that conflict.  How many more will die in the coming rebellion where, once again, liberty is being denied to millions of people?  Free speech is silenced, differences of opinion are criminalized, the right to freely assemble and the freedom to worship banned.  The ability to earn a living selectively curtailed.  Who you are is far more important that what you do.  Justice is no longer blind but sees everything through the filter of race, gender, political affiliation, economic status, and power.  We are bankrupt - both financially and morally.  Lies have become the truth.  Security now trumps freedom.  Equality of outcomes more important than opportunities.  Government, a necessary evil and never the solution to any problem, is now more evil than ever and our biggest problem.

The Gospel of Mark (3:25) says "A house divided against itself cannot stand."  Abraham Lincoln expanded on this metaphor by applying it to the United States - that the country could not permanently endure, half free and half slave.  The people are once again becoming slaves - slaves to big government, slaves to big tech, slaves to  immorality, slaves to tyranny.  Will the people take up arms, to set their rulers right?  When half the people feel enslaved, conflict is inevitable.

On which side of the conflict will you stand - as a Patriot or as a Tyrant?