J. Dunlap wrote:
JCParker wrote: No there is always revolution to change a government, sometimes from within other times as a result of outside forces. That is not a legal means - it is not within the law. Any free democratic society will provide its citizens with legal means with which to effect change in the governmental structure. Revolution causes chaos and a host of problems. Violent revolution causes much destruction and suffering. Why should it have to come to that?
The United States of America was founded by revolution. In this case the Declaration of Independence. In Great Brittan it was the Magna Charta. In most societies this has happens when the exiting government no longer keeps faith with the people it governs, or when it collapses under the weight of it’s own ineptitude thus forcing change.
J. Dunlap wrote:
JCParker wrote: Besides there are times when it is not the government which fails but the people who put the idiots in to run it, in the first place who need to be culled from the herd and the process of goverment reestablished. Are you saying that it's acceptable or even good for people to slaughter the people who they deem to be idiots and then replace the government by force, when they think things have gone too far?
I do not advocate the senseless slaughter or random killing of innocent people. Acts such as this are one of the reasons the United States is at war today. I do not agree with the killing of people just because they do not worship God in the same way I do, nor do I condone someone strapping a bomb on their body and walking into a public place and exploding it to create terror or simply because they think they are destroying another culture opposed to their beliefs. I am also opposed to other things, some of which are prevalent in United States society, however I have no moral issues with killing someone who is attempting to kill me, of waging war against parties and their supporters who wage war against myself, my family, my way of life, or my country.