Death before diagnosis (Updated)

Gun Counter Gomer uses an impressive 1000+ words to finally get around to saying that he is open to taking up arms against the Northern Aggressors if they free the slaves offer uninsured people a public option for health care.

Ultimately, laws are only lawful if the govern find them fair and justified. All else is dogma.

And so when power-mad legislatures and executives use direct lies and emotional rhetoric in order to deceive their constituencies in an attempt at tyranny that serves to increase their power while undermining the principles that has enabled this government of the people, for the people and by the people, we owe them no more allegiance.

One may even begin to speculate on whether we owe them civility for their transgressions, which amount to a fundamental betrayal of oursocial contract as Americans.

Unlike other nations and states in times both past and present, we have the possibility of correcting our mistakes and removing the disloyal via the ballot instead of the barrel of a gun.

Let us hope that our elected officials recognize, however, that our patience is not finite, nor our obligation to bear their indecent assault on our liberties unlimited.

It’s not that Gomer has anything against healthy people. Hellfire and tarnation, he might even let one of them marry his sister. Once he divorces her…

(Update) – Upon further reflection or, as he  might put it ‘hard thinkin’”, Gomer decides to hightail it away from his previous veiled threat:

And so when power-mad legislatures and executives use direct lies and emotional rhetoric in order to deceive their constituencies in attempts at tyranny that serve to increase their power while undermining the principles that has enabled this government of the people, for the people and by the people, we then owe them no more allegiance.

Fortunately, unlike other nations and states in times both past and present, we have the possibility of correcting our mistakes and removing the disloyal via the ballot instead of by the barrel of a gun. Tomorrow, November 3, gives many Americans an opportunity to use their ballot as a declaration that they will not trade their liberties for the certainty of serfdom.

Let us hope that the report at the end of the day is as resounding as the shots fired at Concord.

Obviously when he wrote the original version he was feelin’ secessional, drinkin’ doubles, and wound up in a whole lot of trouble.