Odd isnt it, depending on who holds what kind of power with the upstarts, lots might sign today, right? But some might not. As I read our nation's history over these many decades, I see that who signed, who insisted, who literally risked their lives, depended on how much bloodshed they'd experienced firsthand, who they lost from their own circle in unjust executions. Occupation of colonies was by soldiers who did not spare bayonet nor shot. I think of others who rose us under similar conditions… some routed those who were sent to enforce pillaging and murder and draconian measures… such as the overthrow of Britain by India, some were instead captured and killed, such as the warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis with the Russian Allied forces right outside Warsaw waiting it out instead of joining in to help the Poles. Some came to a draw, rose up, fell back to another draw and another over decades, like Burma.

When you think of it… America's overthrow of the British king's yoke, is still startling. The American Revolution, a mish-mosh of Native Americans, illiterate farmers, black and Mexican and Caribe slaves, people of British blood who came on boats much earlier than the occupation, women with mustkets, men with origins in many Eu. nations in generations previous… and all led by men turned rough woolen greatcoat wearers, who were used to otherwise wearing silk breeches and hose…. amazing.

just my two cents worth about lanternship/leadership in dark times
dr.e

But the government and the military would fight your right to abolish even if the people felt it was the right thing to do (like single payer health care-last reading 63% approve)………..should you take steps in this direction you would be labeled a domestic terrorist and shipped to a place where a confession would be extracted from you that, in fact, you are Castro's only son, and the woman tatooed on your arm is a demonic female version of Shiva, one who exists to destroy.

I bring this up at the July 4th barby, but conversation lags, no compatriots here………sidle over to fetch another beer……..and another…………and with the voice of Nina Simone crying and screaming in my ipod ears, I settle for the hammock and fall deeply asleep…………zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz There is a certain harmonic convergence here…………I am finally in tune with all the sadness of what it means but surrounded by apathy and denial.

dr.e

His Majesty King George III is going to get right pissed off about this.