Former GOP Spokesperson Calls For Armed Uprising In Response To Obamacare Decision

It's become increasingly obvious that the Right Wing has absolutely no respect for the Constitution, no understanding of American history, and no desire to live up to the values that our Founding Fathers based this country on. For over 200 years we have had political differences, but up to now both sides of the issue have recognized that when a law has been passed and the Supreme Court has ruled that law to be valid, we moved on to the next issue as one nation. Not any more. The Republicans have decided, like most three year olds would, that if they can't win the game they're going to blow up the ball. Isn't it time that the Right Wing acknowledges that the American people elected someone they don't like and just live with it until the next election and do their jobs in the meantime? How many more times will the Right Wing put the nation at risk with their childish greed? For three years the Republicans in Congress have blocked hundreds of proposals, many of which were earlier made by Republicans, and done enormous damage to our rights and our economy in so doing, not because they believe they are acting in the best interests of the nation, but simply because someone they don't like proposed it. GROW UP ALREADY, RIGHT WING.

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Former GOP Spokesperson Calls For Armed Uprising In Response To Obamacare Decision
By Nathaniel Downes
June 28, 2012

An email sent from former Michigan GOP Spokesperson Matt Davis after the Supreme Court's decision to uphold Obamacare has caused quite the stir today. Its question,"Is Armed Rebellion Now Justified?" sounds more at home in the cotton fields of Georgia during the 1850s than from Michigan in the 21st Century.

Here is the letter, from Michigan Capitol Confidential:

Is Armed Rebellion Now Justified?

Implicit in Benjamin Franklin's fabled response at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention was a dire warning: That the Republic would one day devolve into tyranny unless we the people prevented it.


In 2008, we the people elected Barack Obama as president, and the 100-year progressive trek to tyranny begun in 1912 with Woodrow Wilson's election was complete. It cannot be said too many times — for the purposes of emphasis and clarity — that the Constitution was possible ONLY AFTER the American Revolution; and that the war itself would not have been possible without the collective agreement, as so eloquently articulated in the Declaration of Independence, that the course of human events will sometimes justify one group of people to sever themselves from their oppressors.

In other words, America itself was possible only after its people summoned the will to risk their lives and their futures — as well as those of their children — for a freedom they did not enjoy but knew was their gift from God. Along with their desire to be free came their willingness to engaged in armed rebellion for their freedom.

If government can mandate that I pay for something I don't want, then what is beyond its power? If the Supreme Court's decision Thursday paves the way for unprecedented intrusion into personal decisions, then has the Republic all but ceased to exist? If so, then is armed rebellion today justified?

God willing, this oppression will be lifted and America free again before the first shot is fired.

When asked for clarification, Mr Davis had this to say:

"You can't have people walking with lattes and signs and think the object of your opposition is going to take you seriously. Armed rebellion is the end point of that physical confrontation."

But later on that day, Mr Davis had a different story to tell, claiming it was all an editorial issue:

I should have read it more carefully. I would take out the part about armed rebellion.

This is not how a Democracy works Mr Davis. The people spoke when they elected President Obama. To call for armed insurrection is how tyrants are born.