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Re:The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel survei... by rmah on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:50PM (#23903394)
The first action of federal troops after the Revolutionary War ended was to suppress a regional rebellion of people who refused to pay their taxes. c.f. "The Whiskey Rebellion.". The US Constitution does not grant right to take up arms against the government, city state or federal. It may be the moral thing to do at some point, but the US Constitution doesn't make it legal.
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Re:The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel survei... by dylan604 on Monday July 20, 2020 @09:42PM (#23903633)
The Constitution was written by people that were willing to do exactly what you discuss.
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Re:The FBI is secretly using Sabre as a global travel survei... by dragonwriter on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @12:29AM (#23904323)
> The Constitution was written by people that were willing to do exactly what you discuss.

It is at least as true to say that the Constitution was written by people who didn't view that as something that was or should be a legal right, and who were willing to violently repress others who tried to do it, both before and after their own Revolution.

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