Tyranny does not come all at once. It comes like it has been coming - gradually like a rising river. It is the transition period, the twilight zone, when you must take action to be effective. If you ignore the danger until the water is at your door, it is too late.
At what exact point then should one resist tyranny?
To borrow from Michael Badnarik:
How bad do things have to get before you do something? Do they have to take away all your property? Do they have to license every activity that you want to engage in? Do they have to start throwing you on cattle cars before you say “now wait a minute, I don’t think this is a good idea.”
Principio Obstate: Resist from the beginning. It is far easier to resist at the beginning than at the end, and we are well past the beginning stage.
"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." John Milton Hay,
CASTILIAN DAYS, II, 1872.
"Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul
"Stand up for what you believe in. Even if you stand alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
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