The Justification for Revolution

The Justification for Revolutiton _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Of the many quandaries that I have pondered and wrestled with over the past 20 years is the problem of determining that course of action for myself and for my country which is most appropriate to guarantee and to perpetuate the rights of the individual and to safeguard and enhance the liberty with which we exercise those rights.

There are two courses of action that we may pursue to this end. The ideal course of action is the utilization of our democratic republic’s legislative process. Also among the courses of action available to Americans for preserving our rights and liberty is revolution.

America's economic and monetary policies are condemning millions of our fellow citizens to chronic joblessness as inflationary pressures diminish living standards. Our fiscal policy has for generations to come indebted us by more than $17,000,000,000.00. Our economic, monetary, and fiscal policies are preventing millions of citizens’ from attaining a higher standard of living. These policies are now forcing millions to revert and to re-assume a standard of living below that to which they had become accustomed. The individual’s ability to become increasingly more independent and freer has become greatly hindered. For citizens dependent upon welfare programs, the possibility of attaining financial independence has become more distant and elusive.

To impede the path to liberty is to enslave the citizenry.
America’s economic, monetary, and fiscal policies are dismantling a nation constituted for liberty and enslaving a people born free. However, a bad policy is not necessarily indicative of a malevolent policy. Just because policies produce undesirable outcomes doesn’t mean that these outcomes are by the design and intent of the policy. Bad policy can be changed by the utilization of our constitutional legislative process. In order to eliminate such impediments to liberty as economic, fiscal, and monetary policies, our legislative process is appropriate and desirable.

Revolution rejects the utilization of the legislative process for the preservation of the rights and liberty of individuals. A citizenry may choose revolution when it does not have faith in the efficacy of its democratic institutions and processes. There are conditions that merely provide rationalizations for revolution. There are conditions that JUSTIFITY revolution and sanction it as THE moral course of action. As America exists now, revolution would be just and it would be moral. Our government was constituted to govern according to the will of the governed. The will of we the people is now disregarded. However, mere disregard by government of the will of the people is not sufficient to justify revolution, though it does predicate the conditions of justification.

Sanction and justification for revolution is afforded the people by government actions and inaction that not only fail to conform to the will of the people to be free, but that are also contrary and antagonistic to the will of the people and that are increasingly restrictive of the liberty to exercise rights that are unalienable. Government institutions are disregarding the will of the people and are also increasingly restrictive of our liberty. Revolution is now justifiable. Revolution is not advocated. Should the people deem it necessary to revolt, the right is with them. It is without compunction that they could now remove from their nation their government, to commission a national conservatorship to maintain the social order necessary to re-establish governance anew as set forth in our Constitution.