My heart is in the state w 3 stars on the flag. It's true. Add in the Indiana state supreme court ruling that a citizen has "no lawful right" to use force against an illegal police raid/search and welcome to totalitarianism 1930's Germany-style. All we need is a group fanning the flames of "racism"...oh wait, the Democrats are already doing that..
Have people really forgotten what the Natural Rights of Man are? Those first 10 amendments to the Constitution were intended to protect the individual from the government by codifying the rights which come from our Creator, not government. Our rights to Life, Liberty and Property come from God, not government- government has no legitimate authority in these areas. The Creator of the Universe made man, man made government. That which is created can never be supreme to that which created it.
As John Locke so eloquently stated in his Two Treatises of Government:
"The old question will be asked in this matter of prerogative, But who shall be judge when this power is made a right use of ? 1 answer: between an executive power in being, with such a prerogative, and a legislative that depends upon his will for their convening, there can be no judge on earth; as there can be none between the legislative and the people, should either the executive, or the legislative, when they have got the power in their hands, design, or go about to enslave or destroy them. The people have no other remedy in this, as in all other cases where they have no judge on earth, but to appeal to heaven: for the rulers, in such attempts, exercising a power the people never put into their hands, (who can never be supposed to consent that any body should rule over them for their harm) do that which they have not a right to do. And where the body of the people, or any single man, is deprived of their right, or is under the exercise of a power without right, and have no appeal on earth, then they have a liberty to appeal to heaven, whenever they judge the cause of sufficient moment. And therefore, though the people cannot be judge, so as to have, by the constitution of that society, any superior power, to determine and give effective sentence in the case; yet they have, by a law antecedent and paramount to all positive laws of men, reserved that ultimate determination to themselves which belongs to all mankind, where there lies no appeal on earth, viz. to judge, whether they have just cause to make their appeal to heaven. And this judgment they cannot part with, it being out of a man's power so to submit himself to another, as to give him a liberty to destroy him; God and nature never allowing a man so to abandon himself, as to neglect his own preservation: and since he cannot take away his own life, neither can he give another power to take it. " (John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, ch. 14)
