Revolution Brewing: It's High Time to Disregard Laws That Violate Conscience

Remember this...no victim, no crime. PERIOD.

It is looking from evidence that is everywhere that a revolt is brewing in America. It seems to be happening in that part of America so mysterious to the political and news-media elite -- the areas that surround, like interstellar space, the elitist strongholds in New York City, Washington, D.C., Portland Oregon, Seattle Washington, as well as many areas around welfare state strongholds including Los Angeles.

There was a hint in 2020 when those attending a peaceful rally and not burning down cities joined together to protest a dishonestly won election. Many of whom are still sitting in a cage as I post this. And now they have prosecuted the Orange guy who did more good in four years due to his background as a game show host than the picked and groomed ones of the elite have done in one hundred years.

The American majority may be fed up with special-interest-group lawyers, using some sorehead as a token plaintiff, persuading political appointees in black robes to jerk Americans around. Somehow, an idea has arisen that a minority may dictate to the majority.

That's a perversion of custom. The majority respects the right of minorities to dissent, but minorities must also respect the rights of the majority.

Furthermore, freedom means just that -- freedom. It does not mean that Americans must pray only when and where they are told to do so by government agents increasingly more concerned with control than with freedom. It is the agents of government, not the people, who are violating the Constitution and making a mockery of the Bill of Rights that they take an oath to defend and ignore the minute their hands are removed from the Bible.

The plain meaning of the First Amendment is that the federal government should simply butt out of religious matters altogether. The only restriction is that the federal government may not establish an official state religion. That could be done only by congressional action. The fact that religious people express their religion while they happen to be standing on federal property or attending some state-financed event does not establish a religion.

And that would be clear if federal judges were really intent on interpreting the meaning of the Constitution rather than just using it as an excuse to legislate their own biases. After all, the same Congress that passed out the First Amendment also established chaplains and opened its sessions with prayers.

I hope that America's young people will take up the challenge issued years ago by Darrell Scott, whose daughter was one of those killed at Columbine High School back in 1999. Scott, who had been invited to appear before a congressional subcommittee, no doubt sharply surprised the politicians by attacking them.

"What has happened to us as a nation?" he asked. "We have refused to honor God, and, in doing so, we opened the doors to hatred and violence. And when something as terrible as Columbine's tragedy occurs, politicians immediately look for a scapegoat such as the NRA (National Rifle Association). They immediately seek to pass more restrictive laws that continue to erode away our personal and private liberties. Political posturing and restrictive legislation are not the answer."

Scott, by the way, told the politicians that he was not a member of the NRA nor a hunter, and did not own a gun. His point was simply that the NRA and gun legislation had nothing to do with the tragedy that occurred. The problem, he said, is spiritual and not legalistic or a matter of hardware used to commit the tragedy.

"We do need a change of heart and a humble acknowledgement that this nation was founded on the principle of simple trust in God," Scott told the politicians. He issued this challenge to America's young people:

"Dare to move into the new millennium with a sacred disregard for legislation that violates your conscience and denies your God-given right to communicate with him."

Now that is the true American spirit. Patrick Henry is surely smiling.

Seriously folks…it’s high time to disregard and and all laws that violate conscience. If you are called for jury duty, remember that you DO have the right to judge the LAW as well as the facts.

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