text: All decent men must agree that we have the right to take up arms in self-defense, and that includes defense of our God-given rights. We did that 240 odd years ago to throw off a foreign tyranny, from which we earnestly sought peaceful redress but were refused.We won that war. A few years later, by means of our Constitution, we set up a government according to the principles in our Declaration of Independence, chief among them that government exists TO SECURE OUR RIGHTS.Nobody here will disagree that it is no longer doing that. But the fault is not with its design. Many of you here have heard me say, "If you see YOUR OWN car up on the sidewalk, running people over, is it the fault of the car? Do you need to blow it up and get a new one? Of course not! You merely need to get the criminal out of the driver's seat!"That is the case with our government today. WE simply need to do the duty that we reserved to ourselves, to We-the-People, acting as lawful militia, and execute the Law (Constitution, Art I Sec 8 Clause 15)Taking up arms "against the government" sounds bad. It does not help us grow our numbers with sober people. It does not garner the support of the huge number of scared sheep, who will either feed and house and support us as we do our necessary and noble work of cleansing and restoration,, or maybe turn us in to a new gestapo.I have told some of your stories. I have as much reason as most in this room to hate and fear, and to be committed to fixing, what our government has been twisted and corrupted into by arrogant criminals, sitting in those expensive chairs we pay for.But OUR government, that we designed and specified in our Constitution, is a CONCEPT first of all. When arrogant fools with titles do bad stuff that the Constitution does not authorize, their acts are BY DEFINITION NOT the acts of OUR government. They are merely crimes.If we really mean to get the job done, not just complain, not just go down in some fruitless blaze of glory, not just knock down a few walls and bring in chaos, we need to understand the situation for what it is, to perceive the points of leverage that we DO have, and help everyone to understand what we truly stand, and are committed to working for.At every opportunity we must repeat that we are NOT "against the government"; we are FOR the Law that we-the-people made to establish a government that would secure our rights.I will say it again. There is a carefully crafted stepwise lawful plan that every one of us can be working in our own AO, that can get the job of restoring our republic DONE, not in a day, but in our lifetime. There is a room or thread here called Tactical Civics Information where it is discussed. I do a Zoom conference every Friday to talk and answer questions about it. My father used to tell me, "The guy who gets mad loses the argument" We have abundance of reason to get mad. But let's get smart, instead.