We Have The Power

". . . 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… it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
 --- Thomas Jefferson

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."
 --- Abraham Lincoln

"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country."
--- Franklin D. Roosevelt

These words from three presidents across three centuries affirm the American people's ownership of their government. Two of them acknowledge the people's right to overthrow an oppressive regime.

Jefferson and Lincoln wrote during times when the success of our experiment with democracy was in doubt. Both men fought forces that would have returned us to tyranny, dismantled the structure of our government and denied our rights. Yet both men understood that any government can become corrupt and rotten, and defended the right of the American people to take charge and reform it.

We do not seek Constitutional reform, but regime change. It is our responsibility. No one else will do it.

We must take charge, and we cannot wait until November. Trump has crossed the line into tyranny. If he follows through on his threat to use an antique law to set the American armed forces against the American people, the United States of America will join Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, Iran, Uganda, and North Korea, who are known to have taken the same action.

We must rise up. It is our right. It is our duty.


---Diogenes, 6/2/2020