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   From: nobodys@busine.ss   
      
   On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 23:35:56 -0800, Intelligent Party   
    wrote:   
      
   >"What country before, ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?    
   And   
   >what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from   
   time to   
   >time, that his people preserve the spirit of resistance.  Let them take   
   arms.  The   
   >remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them.  What   
   signify   
   >a few lives lost in a century or two."   
   >- Thomas Jefferson to Col. William S. Smith, 1787, referring to Shay rebellion   
   >   
   >"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions   
   that I   
   >wish it to be always kept alive.  It will often be exercised when wrong, but   
   >better so than not to be exercised at all."   
   >- Thomas Jefferson, to Abagail Adams, 1787   
   >   
   >"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion."   
   >- Thomas Jefferson to Col. William S. Smith, 1787 (referring to Shay   
   rebellion)   
   >   
   >"I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as   
   >necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."   
   >- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787   
      
   So, should we call what happened on January 6th a 'rebellion'?   
      
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rebellion   
      
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   Malte Runz   
      
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