en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/2280374 Comments by terimwal http://www.timescall.com/news/longmont-local-news/ci_23405341/weld-county-leads-effort-secede-create-state-north#IDComment657186441 "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience [has] shown 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 [the people] 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." "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." — two quotes from Thomas Jefferson Fri, 7 Jun 2013 20:10:38 +0000 http://www.timescall.com/news/longmont-local-news/ci_23405341/weld-county-leads-effort-secede-create-state-north#IDComment657186441