Comments by "Winston Smith" (@winstonsmith935) on "Whitaker: This is not the America most people want" video.

  1. “History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.” ― Thomas Jefferson.
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  2. Do we have the right to overthrow our government? The Declaration of Independence says that we not only have the right but we also have the duty to alter or abolish any government that does not secure our unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Given that the U.S. was formed by settlers who threw off British government rule, there is also an historic precedent for overthrowing the government. America’s founding below, explains that the message of the Declaration of Independence is that we – as a free people – have the right to stand up to an oppressive government. This was – and in many cases still is – a radical idea. But it is based on the philosophy that people have rights that no government can grant or deny. According to John Locke, the fountainhead of this philosophy: There is no difference between an unjust government and a thief. Just like we are right to fight off a thief, we are right to fight off an oppressive government.
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  3. Biden has now given the reason to abolish the present government, it’s in the Constitution.
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  4. Biden has now given the gun owners of America a reason to change government by force if necessary, it’s in the Preamble of the Constitution. That’s why Americans own guns. We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are … endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…. That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men…. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. … Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Declaration of Independence (1776).
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