re: #10 sagehen

Really? A lot of people say that?

How very odd. I’ve never heard anybody say anything even remotely similar.

Nor I. Ever. Probably because I was raised in the United States, and was taught the Revolution as a righteous cause from early childhood on.

And yes, he’s laying groundwork to say that it’s OK to rise up against ANOTHER ‘tyrant’, in the event that you don’t like the actual built-in protections of our system against tyranny.

This is not about poor ol’ King George.