“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. … What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Now that the Australian’s guns have all been confiscated, aren’t they starting mass compulsory inoculations and chipping? TJ and the authors of the Constitutional Amendments couldn’t have foreseen this anti-fertility and depopulation method or they would have more strongly worded the Second Amendment against the forgone given of government tyranny.
I think of another quote from Jefferson that we would do well to remember:
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Justice is coming.