When Tyranny Becomes Law, Rebellion Becomes Our Duty.

It is the opinion of many in Oregon, that Governor Kate Brown has crossed the line on her authority, and is now trampling on the rights of Oregonians, our right to freely assemble in our chosen house of God, restricted to 25 people or less, or parking lot church services, we are told, will be the new normal for awhile.

While we sit at home, and ponder this “new normal” we wonder if we will ever get back the rights that have been stripped of us, we watch as small businesses close, the shutdown bankrupting them, we pray for some kind of intervention from our president, the Department of Justice that have warned our Governor, civil rights violations “could” or “may” result in loss of funding, we realize, we are on our own.

We are Americans, we are strong and resilient, and I tell myself, this to shall pass, we will beat them at the polls, only to hear 2000+ people received the wrong ballot. My mind wonders back to that dusty old document, dated July 4, 1776, and I wonder if the time has come. Our freedoms and liberties are only ours for as long as we fight to keep them.

I will leave you with this, evil prevails when good people do nothing, let the death of a man, by an officer of the law in Minnesota, be the example, as I watch that city burn, Sodom and Gomorrah comes to mind.

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In Congress, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That 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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”