I once swore an oath to defend the US Constitution

[Bandit]

I wish to keep that oath but am at a loss as to how to go about it. I do not wish to engage in violence but how do I honor my oath? The US Constitution is being ripped asunder while I stand by and watch. I am very distressed....I will vote and have voted at every opportunity but I have zero faith in the validity of election results. What can I do? What can any American now do to protect what is left of our once great country? :hurts:

[annabanana]

1. We must asses the viability of the legal avenues

that are still open to us. (This election may truly be one of the last opportunities to take this road). Only when all legal avenues are closed can we consider any "extra-legal" possibilities.

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. Class action lawsuit?

It would be interesting to see if the Courts would give "affected party" status to former members of the US Military -- all of whom have taken an oath to defend the Constitution -- who file suit against the Junta for their attempts to destroy the Constitution.

:popcorn:

[mandyky]

3. Same here

It brings me to tears, at times. This is not the America I grew up in, or served.

[havocmom]

4. I never took that oath aloud, but my heart made it.

When my older brother was sworn in, my heart said those words right along with him. We both meant it too.

I share your saddness. But we work with what legal means we have, knowing well the junta makes legal whatever they want to do and illegal what we might use as tools to act on our oaths.

Just watch what you suggest in public forums. If a contest participant can be busted for fiction involving the bombing of a non-existant stadium in a contest...

[jhrobbins]

5. Though the Constitution does not have a remedy...

The Declaration Of Independence does:

--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 to 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 does go on to say though that this should not be taken lightly and should only be done after a long series of misdeeds(misdeeds seems like such a weird word to use here):

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. 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.--

[TechBear_Seattle]

7. Careful there, you are bordering on treason

Any effort to invoke the Declaration of Independence will likely get you disappeared as an enemy combattant. And God help you if you get caught by DHS with a copy of Jefferson's "blood of martyrs" speech, because the courts won't be allowed to help you.

[Glorfindel]

6. I took that same oath, and I share your perplexity

I doubt that even massive, nonviolent protests such as were held in the 60's and 70's would be effective, or even be allowed by the current tinpot chickenhawk junta.