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Let's look to Mahatma Gandhi for a non-violent guidance:

Gandhi may truly be said to be the prophetic voice of the twentieth century. Violence inflicts upon its practitioners physical and spiritual wounds; the way of non-violence, said Gandhi, "blesses him who uses it and him against whom it is used."2 Again, "non-violence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law -- to the strength of the spirit."3 Let us be sure we do not misunderstand the philosophy of non-violence embodied in Gandhi's life and teachings. A practitioner of the non-violent way of life, far from being passive, is the most active person in the world. He is ready to join the fray -non-violently -- wherever and whenever there is injustice or wrong. He neither tolerates nor compromises with injustice, wrong, tyranny, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, dictatorship. His task in life is not to destroy the evildoer but to redeem and to convert the evildoer by love. " 'With malice toward none,...
Mahatma Gandhi: Peaceful Revolutionary, by Haridas T. Muzumdar

The truth may set us free:

GANDHI ON TRUTH :

Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time....What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker....Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together....Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it....An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

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However the French and American revolutions, and other conflicts, show that violent action is sometimes necessary to achieve freedom. Let us pray this is not the current case!

The King himself seemed to be encouraging a fight. A final Congressional entreaty to peace last year was answered in cold language by George III. "The lines have been drawn," he wrote. "Blows must decide."

By the spring of this year [1774], the idea of independence had caught fire throughout the colonies. Royal governments were ousted one after another up and down the eastern seaboard, and colonial assemblies began drafting their own constitutions. The idea of freedom seem to intoxicate everyone.

Americans are now faced with the consequences of their action. British troops have withdrawn from Boston and are said to be on their way to New York. General George Washington and the Continental Army are marching there to greet them. Only time will tell whether the force of Jefferson's language will be matched by American force in the field.

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_...elphia1776.html

The war [circa 1760 war with France and Britain] had begun with a skirmish in the wilderness between French troops and American colonials led by young George Washington, whose description of the affair revealed that his interest in war lay in the opportunities it offered for honorable and gallant action. Honor and gallantry did not die in the next few years, though large numbers of English, American, and French soldiers and Indians did.

http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=84633734

Of course the wrongdoers (DOJ, IRS, etc.) are strong and many of those who resist suffer persecution, such as Mr. Irwin Schiff, Mr. Joseph Banister http://www.freedomabovefortune.com/, Mr. Al Thompson http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTPLawsuit/Mi...ThompsonOut.htm, **** Simkanin http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTPLawsuit/si...ate02-29-04.htm and many more.