I agree with you that Ms. Bachmann is jumping the gun by going out and suggesting revolution.  However, I don’t entirely disagree with her.  A revolution from time to time is indeed a good thing.  This nation was set up to facilitate revolution.  We are allowed free speech and press so that we may revolt.  We are allowed to bear arms so that we may revolt (though many sectors of government are trying to drastically limit this).  The framers of our constitution realized that the government needs to be kept in check via “checks and balances.”  One of those checks is citizens with weapons that threaten to tar and feather politicians should they go too far.  Granted, this is a very extreme check, but it is one that should be kept burning in the back of every American’s mind.

Law and order are enormously important in a free market – in any society for that matter – and under most any circumstance I am in favor of maintaining that order.  However, when a government begins to break its own laws and creates disorder then revolution may become necessary.

You stated that, “President Obama won the popular vote by 7%, and he received over double the electoral votes as Senator McCain. Yet, this has not stopped some on the political right from calling for violent revolution in the United States.”  I can’t imagine that most, if any, of these people are calling for revolution because they deny that President Obama won the election.  I think it is very clear that he has an incredible following and it was anticipated throughout the months leading up to the election that he would win.  I believe that people are calling for revolution so loudly and so quickly because they see what I see.  They see a man, an Administration and a Legislature that are intent on stripping the people of this nation of the freedoms that they have enjoyed for centuries.  In these short two months, Democratic members of the Legislative and Executive branches have proposed unheard of levels of spending, drastically increased taxation, taken control of numerous large corporations, threatened to revoke bonuses that were agreed upon under contracts while the government owned the company, fired a CEO and board members, given ultimatums to private companies, threatened to force private companies into bankruptcy after sinking tens of billions of dollars into them, suggested a bill for mandatory community service that later had to be changed, went back on many campaign promises, failed to get any support from the Republican Party, begged for help from the hedge funds that they had bashed for over a year in an effort to convince them to buy “toxic assets” from banks’ balance sheets, and a number of other infuriating proposals.  Furthermore, majority does not mean that revolution is unnecessary.  The majority of Colonists did not wish to secede from Great Britain, but there was still a revolution.  Revolution does not require majority, but I can tell you that one of the quickest ways to get a revolution is to legalize theft in the way of taxation for redistribution.

Let me clarify again that I do agree that a Congresswoman should not be inciting violent revolution just yet.  The best way is always the peaceful way so long as it is effective.  At this point we have no reason to believe that if Americans are upset enough that they will somehow peaceably dismantle this government.  Until we have reason to believe that nothing can be done through peaceful measures, violent revolution should take a far back seat.  However, I’d venture to say that we are inching towards the closest point to revolution that we have seen since 1861.  With today’s fast mass communication it makes crowds gather much more rapidly and transmits knowledge that people would have otherwise never known.  In my experience, the more people learn about government the more upset they are apt to become.

I leave you with this: our government was never intended to be a democracy – it is and always has been intended to be a republic.  When Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention of 1787 he was asked by a woman what he had set up for the American people.  He replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”