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There’s yet time and hope for a Constitutional solution to these lying, thieving traitors through the ballot box. Abraham Lincoln thought so in October 1859 when word reached him of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry; but eighteen months later the Civil War had begun. At the time of the Boston Tea Party Edmund Burke warned the British Parliament, “Free people will not be argued into slavery;” but Parliament ignored Burke and responded with the “Coercive Acts.” About a year later, on 19 April 1775, Patriot Captain Parker’s command to his 120 homespun Minutemen facing 800 Red Coat bayonets on Lexington Green still rings down the centuries: “Don’t fire unless fired upon; but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here!”