Quoting the Declaration and Patrick Henry to CNN

In response to this poll:

Congress has been gazing at its own navel while US Citizens have been struggling to keep their heads above total financial ruin. Congress acts like an Oligarchy . . . they make plans for our future but refuse to live by the same plans. The Declaration of Independence says: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. WHERE does it say that Congress is better than the rest of us? WHERE does it say that all Federal Employees are better than the rest of us? WHERE does it say that it’s a person’s ethnicity that makes one person better than another? WHERE does it say that it’s who you know at CountryWide will get you a ‘sweetheart loan?’ But Congress is so intent of keeping the benefits they have and obtaining more by “paying off” their contributors that they’ve forgotten the one fundamental truth. It’s mentioned in the next paragraph of the august document: 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 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.

It is NOT insurrection when a people decide that the government is governing without the consent of the governed. It is NOT insurrection when citizens rise up and remove an existing government which has governed with a despot’s hand. As the Declaration states: 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.

When our right and our duty becomes inevitable, only the despotic usurper would attempt to declare martial law to crush those who disagree with him.

Patrick Henry paraphrased: We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the Courts, and have implored its interposition to end the tyrannical hands of the Obama Presidential Executive Order, Presidential Records Act, 44 U.S.C. 2201-2207, denying access to his records. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the Presidential Press Secretary!

There is no longer any room for hope or change by Mr Obama. If we wish to be free, to know the truth about Mr Obama — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, an open and transparent Presidency —if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained—we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary as the Executive, Congressional, and Judicial Branches of Government. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when an Obama Civilian Army guard or Black Panther shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope and change, until our Liberal (Marxist) President shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our Liberal Government can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election, no choice. The Congress, the Justices, have refused to act to bring an open resolution. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest as the Liberals in Congress and the Executive Czars are overwhelmingly in charge of our Government and the Justices are enfeebled and intimidated by them. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery and dhimmitude! Our chains are forged by Liberals who would destroy the very fabric of this great Nation as ordained in the words of the Constitution of the United States of America! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Congress, in the halls of the White House, on the bench of the Supreme Court! The war is inevitable—and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace— but there is no peace. The war for people’s minds and allegiance is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms, the billy-clubs of Black Panthers, the release of Islamic terrorists in our midst, the intimidation of Jurists, the refusal to accept the results of the American Grand Jury! Our brethren are already in the field working hard to unite Conservatives and to mandate for the release of Mr Obama’s credentials! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery when we were promised hope and change? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, be it for hope, be it for change; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!